Matt and Nancy Heerema

Shreveport Day 1 (update 2)

Even though I am sitting at a computer in a back room, I managed to get interviewed by Shreveport local news channel 12. We’ll see if I make the cut.

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Shreveport: Day 1

Well, after 15 hours of driving, a few wrong turns, a stop in Texarkana to some of the nicest people I’ve ever met, we’re here in Shreveport.

We are working in the Hirsch Colliseum Red Cross shelter. There are over 1000 refugees here.

Ironically, my job (along with Wendy Rehm) is information services (because that’s what […]

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Was Katrina “Intelligent Design”?

Thanks Dan via Noel for this link:

John Piper’s Response to “Was Katrina ‘Intelligent Design’?”

In response to NPR Senior News Analyst, Daniel Schorr’s Statement, “…if this was the result of intelligent design, then the designer has something to answer for.”

God does not answer to us. We answer to him. And we have only one answer: […]

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Katrina Broke My Heart

It’s been an intersting weekend. I have been grieving over New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast that has been decimated by the hurricane.

I have also been very challenged by a post by chad called “I’m not willing to go”.

Can you imagine moving to New Orleans right now? Of you course you can’t […]

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Joy equals Strength

JR Woodward posted a good reminder from Nehemiah that in all this craziness and chaos, where everything can seem to be going haywire, “to take God’s holy day and eat some food, drink some wine and share some wine with those who don’t have any.” And that the Joy of the Lord is our […]

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Katrina. The equivalent of Armageddon?

I have been reading with shock and horror this morning of the tragedy that is the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Possible casualty role of thousands.

Armed, roving, looting plasma TV’s electronics, burglarizing people’s houses.

Desperate survivors who scavenge food from ravaged grocery stores being labeled looters.

Military rescue helicopters, private rescue boats, BEING SHOT AT.

It is like a scene […]

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