Posts in category For the Heart

The Christian life can be described as growth in consecration to God. It is learning to dedicate our lives to God in increasingly greater measure. …

One of the main themes in the Gospel of John is the full consecration of Jesus to do His Father’s will. Jesus was fully devoted …

Our gratitude for what Jesus has done for us should result in consecration (dedication) of our lives to God. Paul argues for this in one …

Give the gift of inspiration. Missionary biographies display what a life sold out for God looks like. God uses different people with vastly different backgrounds …

Acts 11:24 says this of Barnabas: he was “a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith.” God describes Barnabas as a man …

~ Dr. Matthew Jones is the founder and director of the Southeast Asia MK Camp. He and his wife have been serving as missionaries in …

Whether your proclivity is to immediately side with total abstinence or allowance according to conscience, we need humility before God and His Word. We must strive to not take away from God’s revealed will or go beyond it.

You won’t like my answer, but here it is anyway: Endure hardness. There are no shortcuts to becoming a successful missionary. There’s no quick, alternative …

God in His wisdom knew that His Church needed this very searching and practical prayer. He knew that we need it continually as an important means of steering our hearts away from the world’s distractions and toward His love for the lost and His eternal purpose to use us to reach the nations.

In his classic work, “How to Read a Book,” Mortimer Adler writes, “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how …