Posts tagged missions

During the turbulent colonial era, a sickly British boy, named Hudson Taylor, comes to Christ and hears God’s call to China. Without the backing of the aristocratic society of his day, he turns to God alone…

Truly, there is nothing new under the sun. As I read the biography of John Livingstone Nevius, I stumbled across a letter he wrote to …

Only in her early twenties, Darlene married a missionary and moved to Indonesia only to find herself in the path of the Japanese invasion of southeast Asia during World War II. Torn from her new husband and incarcerated in a women’s interment camp, Darlene learned to trust the Lord…

We know how Paul applied “being all things to all men” and “laying aside our rights” for the sake of the Gospel. We now need to consider ways that we as cross-cultural missionaries might apply these principles to our lives today.

In a recent article, I told my story of struggling with idolizing missions. After that surrender and spiritual blessing, God used my physical problems to …

Introduction This is the second of three articles exploring these truths: Those who endure to the end are true believers (first article). Church discipline reveals …

More than ever before we need to see cross-cultural missions as advancing the Gospel among peoples and language groups, not merely reaching those within certain …

In our increasingly “spiritual but not religious” society, we are seeing a growing interest in things like karma, mindfulness, and zen. These ideas and practices come directly from Buddhism. In this article, veteran missionary Forrest McPhail explains how we can engage those who embrace Buddhist beliefs with the truths of the gospel.

How God can use our response to pandemic disruptions

How does someone go from the idyllic, rolling hills of Scotland to the volcanic wilds of Vanuatu? How does one muster the courage to trade …