Deus Misereatur

40/40 Vision: Clarifying Your Mission in Midlife Peter Greer and Greg Lafferty InterVarsity Press PO Box 1400 Downers Grove, IL 60515 ivpress.com 978-0-8308-4434-0; November 2015; $16.00 (Order here ) Faced squarely by the hard truth that one has landed in the middle of a short life that is rapidly getting shorter provides a person an opportunity to go one of two directions: do nothing different and continue as before, or re-evaluate and re-direct. In this regard the biblical material known as Ecclesiastes is a great place to go to get a dose of reality before things get too far out of hand and too far down the road. And one way to steer through Ecclesiastes is with the help of a new 208 page hardback, “40/40 Vision: Clarifying Your Mission in Midlife.” This fine, reader-friendly book is penned by Peter Greer, president and CEO of HOPE International, and Greg Lafferty, senior pastor of Willowdale Chapel in Kennett Square and Jennersville, Pennsylvania.  Greer a...

Sunday A.M. Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, we come to you at your Son’s behest who bid us to ask, and it would be given to us; to seek, and we would find; to knock, and the door would be opened to us (Luke 11.9-10). We pray for the Church of our Lord Jesus throughout the world, including the Church of England, the Episcopal Church, the Anglican Communion in North America, the Church of Scotland, the Free Church of Scotland, the United Methodist Church, and the Church of South India . Preserve your people from harm and poverty that they may be loyal followers all their days. Grant repentance and reparations where they are fitting; restore orthodoxy where it has withered into near nothingness; strengthen the trustworthy, and grant success to those working to restore fidelity. Thank you for the reminder of your lavish feast (Isaiah 25.6-9), and our part in drawing all nations to come. Bless and enrich those who have gone to other lands and other places to ma...