Tuesday, June 26, 2007

A Teenage Abolitionist

Don McLaughlin has been on campus a couple of days, and last night as we were sitting in IHOP, he told me an AMAZING story about a 15 year-old young man by the name of Zach Hunter. Inspired by the movie "Amazing Grace", Zach has made it his goal to completely end slavery.........ALL OVER THE WORLD! If you Google his name, you will find a bunch of articles on Zach, but here is one that you can go to:

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/interview.zach.hunter.the.teenage.abolitionist/9640.htm


I hope you are as inspired as I am by reading about Zach.

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I received a wonderful email from Jim Woodroof telling me that he now has a web site where we can go to and hear lessons that Jim has taught over the years. If you want your life impacted TREMENDOUSLY, go and listen to these talks by Jim. Here is the link:


http://jimwoodroof.com


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Last night as Donnie was speaking to the UPLIFT crowd about the parable of the Prodigal Son (or is it "Reprodigal" as I used to sing in church?) he made an observation that I had heard before, but I needed to hear again. The younger brother got to the point where he "LONGED" for the pods the pigs were eating. Satan had been influential enough to get him THAT far from the truth......that far from the wonderful feast he could have been enjoying. What pig pod are you longing for now that is SO VERY FAR from the real blessing God intended for you to have? Satan hasn't changed his tactics.........he still lies to us in 2007 to convince us the pig pod is better than the steak. I remember Jim Woodroof saying "Jesus came to change our wants". Filter your wants thru Jesus, and the pig pod won't make it thru. Neither will a lot of other garbage.

Have a great week!

10 Comments:

At 6:20 PM, Blogger mmlace said...

Don McLaughlin's always been one of my favorites! That almost woulda been worth a drive to Searcy, just to hear him.

 
At 4:49 PM, Blogger Keith said...

I take offense to some of your "hogwash" comments :) Great post brother. Sometimes we get WAY far from Home don't we. Donnie Mac is the real deal. Wish I could have heard him.

 
At 11:02 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don is so gifted with speaking God's Truths, isn't he? Such a blessing, that man is. Lucky you, getting to hear him & eat at IHOP w/him.

 
At 5:01 PM, Blogger One Observationist said...

David,

I did some reading on Zach Hunter and what an amazing kid.

Interestingly, I read an article in this months issue of Harvard Business Review and it talked about kids from The Millennial Generation (born ~1982 to ~2005). These kids, like Zach, are focused "on upbeat messages" and they "will develop community norms based on rules, standards, and personal responsibility; every arena will become more mannerly, structured, and civic minded."

In short, I was just amazed at how Zach seemed to fit the description of how the article described other kids in his generation. If any one is interested the HBR article is called "The Next 20 Years: How Customer and Workforce Attitudes Will Evolve" by Neil Howe and William Strauss.

Maybe the next generation will bring us all back to the mindset that community relationships are important for our society.

Thanks for the thoughts.
Jeremy

 
At 10:34 PM, Blogger Sarah said...

Sorry to potentially hijack your blog, but I couldn't find an email address for you. I have seen your comments on other blogs (Maybe Mike Cope's? can't remember currently) but happened across you tonight googling for a former teacher, Tony Timms. I saw your post about his note of encouragement as well as the conversation about Paden being deployed. That let me know it was the right Tony Timms!

Tell him that Sarah and Roxanne think of him often ... yea, even 20+ years after Algebra 2!

 
At 2:01 PM, Blogger cwinwc said...

We saw a video about Zach Hunter at the Mid-Ohio Valley Workcamp last week. He is amazing and inspiring.

 
At 5:04 PM, Blogger mmlace said...

David, CLICK HERE and read! I promise it'll be worth it! Much love in Him!~mmlace

 
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