We couldn't find a hotel room in Manhattan because of the marathon this weekend, but oh how worth it it was to travel on the PATH train (under the river) to get there, with a view like this....
We stayed in Jersey City, across the Hudson from Manhattan and this picture is taken from my hotel room window. In the morning, we woke up to beautiful water, cargo ships and barges, and a plain view of the cranes working on Ground Zero.
We stayed in Jersey City, across the Hudson from Manhattan and this picture is taken from my hotel room window. In the morning, we woke up to beautiful water, cargo ships and barges, and a plain view of the cranes working on Ground Zero.
Sunday morning, we all went to worship at TIMES SQUARE CHURCH. The pastor talked about the passage in Mark that says "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." I've always assumed it was addressing the wealthy, but in order to get into the kingdom of heaven, you have to become NOTHING. That is such an anti-American idea, not just in "The City That Never Sleeps" but everywhere! We go to college to focus on our self, get ahead and find success, but Christ calls us to humble ourselves and become nothing, like He did. "But He made Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness." Phil. 2:7