Gaining a heart of wisdom
Out loud and together. That's how my patient husband and I are reading through the Bible this year, and, believe it or not, we're just about on schedule! Right now we are taking in the book of Acts in great gulps, two or three chapters at a time interspersed with the corresponding epistles. That breathless pace… Continue reading To the End of the Earth
As a child of the Cold War era, I learned a chilling fascination for anything to do with "The Iron Curtain." When my high school music teacher started spending her summer vacations on short-term missions trips to Eastern Europe, I was certain that I, too, would be called to minister in lands closed to the… Continue reading Brother Andrew: Still Opening Doors
I have the best of intentions. I've backed them up with a nifty notebook: divided into sections for the days of the week; pages of personalized prayer requests; an alphabetized list of missionaries (Can I make it through the list from memory at 3 a.m. on a wakeful night?); even a few answers to prayer,… Continue reading All Nations
Author, Bryan Bishop set out to find answers in his travels through North American and Asia. What he found instead was a lot more questions. Based on reports of a Muslim who had a vision of Jesus as the living God and Savior -- who then began to read the Bible and evangelize his friends, Bryan began… Continue reading National Geographic Meets Operation World
Fourteen years as a missionary in Cambodia changes your view of God. It changes the way you stand in front of a church and give a report. "This is what God did" somehow gets sorted out from "This is what I thought He was doing at the time" and "This is what I expected." In fourteen years, a… Continue reading What Do They Really Need?
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