Not everyone excels at hypocrisy. While the majority of the world believes Christians own the ring on this one, some of us might need a little help. Knowing this, I’ve created a simple strategy that will assist anyone seeking to live in opposition to his or her proclaimed beliefs. Step …
Oh, I am so very, very late with this study installment! Our in-home group met last week, but due to a number of circumstances, I am just now getting our video recap up. If you’re not yet following me on facebook, please do. When things get wonky and I can’t get stuff up here when …
This week we’re talking about missions vs. missionaries. Click HERE to find visit the first post. Tuesday we explored whether we’re really mission-minded or just saying we are. How might the idea of being a “missionary everyday” and everywhere diminish the power and urgency of overseas missions? Today I want …
This week we’re talking about missions vs. missionaries. This is the third post in the series. Click here to start at the beginning. Please note that some names have been changed for the protection of missionaries and their families. Yesterday guest blogger, Kevin, asserted that living missionally and being a missionary are …
This week we’re talking about missions vs. missionaries. Click HERE to read the first post in the series. Come back tomorrow to read more. What do missionaries wish we knew? Kevin has a few thoughts for us. I pray that his words challenge and encourage you today. I’ve sung that song …
This post is the first in a series. Be sure to click through all related articles linked at the bottom of this one. They say smell is the sense most closely tied to memory. For weeks, months even, after returning from Bosnia, I would wake with the smell in my …
If there ever was a mountain-top spiritual experience, Elijah’s Battle of the Gods in 1 Kings 18 would define it. But after that … what? Well, Elijah entered a valley. A dark one. This week our Big Word discussion centered on 1 Kings 19-20. In those chapters we encounter a …
I adore Susan May Warren. She is, hands-down, my favorite contemporary author. I fell in love with her work instantly with the PJ Sugar series. I swooned heavily and repeatedly with the Noble Legacy series. (My husband says going to buy a big belt buckle and a cowboy hat. He …
“The very purpose of religion is to control yourself.” The Dalai Lama said many great things, but this was not one of them. I am so very grateful that God’s Word teaches differently. If the definition of religion is the pursuit of God and a right standing with Him, than its …
A couple European vagabonds and I sat in a tiny studio apartment amid the Swiss Alps debating theology until 4 am. Sons of missionaries, raised in boarding schools, these brothers had left their parents’ faith. I don’t remember a whole lot about them, not even their last name, but I remember …