Wonderfully Woven Personalities
Western culture tends to promote and reward a certain type of personality. We see evidence all around us: in politics, business, athletics, and even religion. …
Fallen from Grace: The Mysterious Warning of Galatians 5:4
“You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.” (Galatians 5:4). Falling from grace sounds …
Risk Setting Your Soul on Fire: Start Reading Missionary Biographies Today
Serious Christians read theology. Insert the name of your favorite theologian here ____________. Maybe from time to time you dabble in some practical Christian living …
Whose Ministry Is Our Paradigm for Missions, Jesus or Paul?
Is it legitimate to use Jesus and the accounts of His ministry as a pattern for cross-cultural missions? If a missionary understands that following Jesus …
God’s Desires: How to know God’s will in difficult decisions.
How do I know whether to marry this person or choose this or that career? Does God have desires about these decisions? Of course He …
God, the Lord of Time
Tara Westover’s Educated describes her Dad’s frenzied labour as a scrap worker extracting value from piles of rubbish. “Dad lived in fear of time. He …
The Rest You Cannot Earn
God has baked patterns into our living that point beyond this life to him, to the ultimate rest we can celebrate forever, fully participating in life the way God originally designed it to be.
15 Devotional Gleanings from Reading the Old Testament Law
When reading through the first five books of the Old Testament, many of us find a significant portion of those chapters very hard to profit …
Beautiful Formation…but Perilous
Ice storms are unusual in my sliver of the United States. So the arrival of a “historic ice storm” this past month caused quite a …
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus: Old Lyrics with Timeless Truths
Algeria, 1901: Pen in hand, forty-seven-year-old missionary Lilias Trotter gazed out over the foothills of the Atlas mountains of northern Africa. A flash of yellow …