Have you ever thought while praying, “What am I doing here?” God already knows this. He’s omniscient, all knowing. Am I wasting my time? Am …

St. Eustatius, Lesser Antilles, February 1739: Pen in hand, the thirty-eight-year-old German scratched a few stanzas on rough paper as he looked over the Caribbean …

Overview Why would a young Christian couple move to Lebanon in the 1990s? Why would they stay in the Middle East after the terrorist attacks …

I squirmed in my seat. I was in Albania for a conference for the accreditation of theological schools around the world. The conference’s moderator announced …

I just listened to forty sermons on the same passage. I teach expository preaching in the Middle East and East Africa, which means hours of …

The coffee shop’s hubbub distracted nineteen-year-old Hani from the thoughts that troubled him. This Cairo hotel was a refuge. But the steaming cup before him …

“And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the graves after His …

Overview No study of missions is complete without reading a biography of Amy Carmichael, missionary to India. Among the published options available today, Elisabeth Elliot’s …

Overview Just last week, I stood at the grave of William Borden in Cairo, Egypt. The famous quote that describes his life is inscribed across …

“Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with …