Jambo! (Hello!) Well, it was kind of hard working Swahili in around the Thanksgiving holiday, but Thanksgiving was wonderful! While I didn’t get to spend much time learning new words, I did get to host a special Thanksgiving brunch at our church for four college students. It was a huge blessing! I am very grateful …
Swahili Challenge – Cross-eyed But Happy
So, after completing the fifteen page introduction to the Swahili course I am – as the title suggests – cross-eyed but happy. I don’t have a lot to report except that tonight my dreams will probably be full of words and phrases like: “affrication” or “voiced labio-dental fricatives” or “apico-alveolar flap”. Sigh. I’m glad that’s …
Swahili Challenge – A,E,I,O,U!
So this is pretty cool. There are five vowels in Swahili, just like in English. In fact, they are even the same letters, (a,e,i,o,u) though they are pronounced somewhat differently. They are as follows: a Stressed, Father or odd: Basi “only”, Kitabu “book” Unstressed, between father …
Swahili Challenge – Getting Started
Well, today was the first day of the Swahili Challenge! How did it go? Pretty well, not conquering Africa or anything, but I did get the software downloaded and set up in my computer! That’s progress considering how slow the internet was moving this morning! So, what am I using? Well, I looked into a …
Mountains vs Microwaves
I wrote the following on Saturday evening after a day with my niece and nephew and as I sat down to do a little work on some FTN materials, hope it will be a blessing: Today I climbed a mountain, or at least part of it, with my six year-old niece and not quite three …
Something New
Some of you may already be a aware of the some of the new things that are happening on the internet side of FTN, but just in case, I thought I would share what’s is going on. While I was in St. Louis, the pastor there repeatedly told me that people need to know more …
The King’s Daughter – Part IX
Part IX – Conclusion Who is the King’s Daughter Really? She is that one who was in such a miserable state, abandoned in a field in her own blood, unwashed and unloved, who was redeemed by the blood of Christ and made beautiful because His righteousness was put upon her. Will it Always be this …
The King’s Daughter – Part VIII
Part VIII – The Everlasting Covenant Even as God declares this horrible judgment that He is about to bring on Israel (See Part VII), He speaks a word of hope. Ezekiel 16:60, says, “Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting …
The King’s Daughter Part VII
Part VII – God’s Chastening This is long overdue. Because of the huge gap between Part V and Part VI and now Part VII, I think I will go ahead and finish things up today, which means that the last three parts will be posted in pretty quick succession, otherwise, Parts VIII and IX might …
Prayer Update, August 2011
(For a picture of the wonderful car that the Lord has provided, and a more detailed account of all that He did during June and July see the two previous blog posts!)
