Posts tagged prayer

I would guess that almost every Christians reading this sentence would like to have a deeper prayer life. As we read God’s Word, we see …

High Hopes Hopes were high as Hudson Taylor set sail for England following a fruitful season of missionary service. In the midst of seemingly impenetrable …

Prayerful Proclamation Prayerfully proclaiming God’s Word in the power of the Holy Spirit is the heart of disciple-making ministry. From the testimony of God’s Word …

Without question, George Muller is one of my favorite individuals in church history. Page after page in his autobiography, Muller recounts astonishing, providential answers to prayer. …

John 17 might be the least explored peak of all the Bible’s grand vistas. And for good reason: the high priestly prayer is marvelously interwoven. …

If we are truly to offer up desires that are agreeable to his will, in the name of Christ, with confession of our sins, and with thankful acknowledgment of his mercies, we should habitually pray the text of Scripture.

I wasn’t prepared for the emotion I would feel when I saw the fifth video released about Planned Parenthood. The severed little hand, reaching out from the pinkish soup of other mutilated body parts, evoked in me more than a deep, sick feeling. The only word that comes to my mind is the sense of being crushed—crushed by the evil I was seeing.

Despite everyone’s diligent efforts and sincere desires, missionary activities sometimes involve varying degrees of ineffectiveness. Why? One explanation might be that Christians, churches, and missionaries simply are not thinking strategically about how to make a rescue operation achieve as many goals as possible. Here are two foundational strategies no Christian interested in missions can afford to ignore.