exchanged living.

One of the added bonuses of working at Hope is that you learn to cook if you just pay attention. Today, Cott and I are tag-team smoking some pork butts and beef briskets for a meal for our friends in ministry at Meridzo in Lynch, KY. As we’ve developed our friendship with this ministry, we have also developed a heart for the people in the Tri-City area, and it’s a joy to partner with them in big ways and small. Drew and Leah are incredible people doing an incredible work, and the Kingdom is breaking in there.

So much of the ministry of Jesus took place around food; He always used the most elemental things to speak of the divine. I wonder how he’d use brisket?

(Oh, and there’s a theory around Hope that one of the reasons Jesus is coming back is because he’s never had pork barbecue. It’s not scriptural, but I think it’s kinda fun to think about.)