What are you doing that scares you?
Nick responded to yesterday's blog with a comment referencing Francis Chan's, book Crazy Love. A lot of people have been reading it. I actually lik...
Courage
Your faith is worth what it costs you
Oleg, one of our Moldovan partners was preaching in a village a couple of years ago. The village people didn't like his preaching, so they took him ou...
Church
Are some churches too cool?
Jim Larson is a hero, pouring out his life as a missionary pulling young girls out of the sex trade in Bangkok. From my perspective, a guy like Jim ...
Eswatini / Swaziland
Nsoko, Matthew 25 and you
If you take Matthew 25* literally in the context of what's going on in Swaziland, it's sobering. Over in Nsoko, Swaziland, Pastor Gift's average ...
Blog Community
We'll pray for & disciple you
Check out the new buttons at the top of the blog offering prayer, counsel and discipleship. It's the result of your feedback when I asked about repurp...
Missions
We've lost the missionary imperative
The tidal wave of relativism that has swept through our culture has created a lot of victims. It says, "Truth is relative, so don't cram your opinion ...
Eswatini / Swaziland
Keeping our daughters safe
This blog by Pastor Gift is hard to read, it such a searing account, I had to tone it down some. My hope in sharing it is that the reality of what so ...
Missions
The tale of the white pig
The other night a missionary named John Cutts came by the Almand home in Gainesville and told an amazing story. It's a little long, but worth it. ...
Courage
Man Hike #2 - White Mtns of New Hampshire
You can only go so far discipling people on the internet. You have to get together in the flesh periodically to hear what God's saying and go to the n...
The Holy Spirit is on the move
The blind see - a miracle in Kenya
I sat at lunch across from Shaye Cornell a little over a month ago. I asked her, "So what happened on your trip to Kenya?" What she shared was incre...
