Writers Info Network: July 2011

Marching Orders for WIN Communications and Writers Information Network

Mission Statement: "Help me, O God, to do my best to help other people to accomplish and to achieve, knowing that their contribution is what God is trying to give the world." --from Florence Sims, 1873-1923, who started the YWCA. (Claimed for WIN, November 15, 2004)

Mandate: "Now go and write these words. Write them in a book. They will stand until the end of times as a witness" (Isaiah 30:8 NLT).

Message: "The Lord gives the Word [of power]; the women who hear and publish [the news] are a great host" (Psalm 68:10-11 AMP).

Thursday, July 7, 2011

God's good is no ordinary good.
It calls us to forgive rather than retaliate.
It calls us to serve instead of furthering our own goals.
It calls us to community rather than to individualism.
It calls us to holiness rather than compromise.
It calls us to participate in the kingdom of God rather than to build our own systems and institutions.
It calls us to work for change in the world so that it will reflect God's values of justice and mercy.

"Therefore, whenever we have the oportunity, we should do good to everyone--especially to those in the family of faith." (Ephesians 6:10 NLT)

--Charles Ringma in Resist the Powers with Jacques Ellul

Writers Info Network

Marching Orders for WIN Communications and Writers Information Network

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Doing Good

In a Christian Writer's Life: Interview with Christian writer Elaine Wright Colvin, founder of Writers Information Network