Do you remember your new missionary orientation? Earlier this month, a new group of candidates went through MV orientation. Below are my thoughts on what the week stirred in me, as well as one of the candidates. First Love by Josh Hire There was a worship song that came out a while back. It started,…
This is not a time to pull away… Heb.10:25a TPT Lately, I’ve been contemplating the tension between unity or belonging and isolation. Working in member care gives me the privilege of listening to and encouraging people serving in the field. One of the themes I hear repeatedly is feeling isolated. Sometimes people feel isolated because…
Late Tuesday night, my phone dinged. I picked it up. It was a 4:50-minute video from Peru. I hit play. The video was shaky and grainy. A brown, muddy river filled the screen. A man stood alone in the waist-deep water. Across the river, a crowd gathered on a hillside, men and women in bright…
A while back we drove past a grape juice factory. It was a Welch’s factory, with large water-tower-sized vats around the outside of the factory, full of only what I could imagine as sweet, sticky, purple liquid. I loved it the moment I saw it. The sign on the chain-link fence out front read, NOW…
BEAR MUCH FRUIT, PROVING YOURSELVES TO BE MY DISCIPLES “Resolved, to live with all my might, while I do live.” Jonathan Edwards resolution #6. Lately I’ve been pondering the issue of fruitfulness in the life of a Christian. It is impossible to miss the emphasis placed on fruit bearing in the Scriptures, especially in the…