We look at a huge task–reaching a nation, reaching a people group, reaching a city–and we say, “It can’t be done.” Primarily because we don’t know how. All we can see is us, going, spending ourselves, crashing-and-burning, perhaps even getting martyred–and for what? How will the little that we can do make a difference? Instead [...]

Missionary Not Welcome (Ernest Goodman) and Frontier Missions: Foolhardy (by Marti Smith) both give us a bit to reflect on. 1. Jesus did not tell us to go only to places where we knew we would be welcome. The Luke 10 model is to go to a place and seek out the person of peace [...]

Today is the fourth of July in America–independence day. It’s the day we celebrate our declaration of independence from Britain. Independence is a very American trait–but it is not necessarily a Godly one. God calls us to be interdependent with others. He calls us to a life of service, of dependence, of humility. He says [...]

You can develop a vision and you can identify the things that need to be done. And you can even do some of them. But if a vision is bigger than you, then you’ll need more than just you working on it. That means you have to build a community. Getting people involved is the [...]

“Am I a success” is a difficult question to answer. Many people have definitive “measures” of success that they try to sell. They say, “You’re a success if you say/do/have/are _x_.” What they use to fill in the blank–their “x”–could be anything: millions of dollars, time spent with family, children raised to follow the Lord, [...]

Some people start talking with others about their vision and their passions—and eventually decide to do something together. Some people find they have to get up and move from the place where they are to another, completely different place. Some people find it’s enough for them to write, incessantly, about a particular vision, and create [...]

There is a difference between being busy and lazy, as the famous fable of the far-thinking ant and the shortsighted and apathetic grasshopper tells us. However, there is equally a difference between being busy and productive. To be busy can mean to be industrious—but it can also mean to simply be active at every moment. [...]

At least once a year there is an event which causes us to gasp aloud. An honor killing is a good example: a girl walking alone is attacked and raped by someone from the next village over, and then killed by one of her own family members out of shame. Bad boys aren’t responsible for [...]

Jesus told parables to get his point across. One form of parable that he constantly used was that of a farmer sowing seed. Of course, he wasn’t talking about his disciples being farmers. He once told Peter he would make him into a fisher of men. So we might ask ourselves—in our context, what is [...]

Whatever it is that you’re doing—why are you doing it? Are you using that website because everyone else is (and particularly all the cool people who are in the know)? Are you using that device because others are using it? Is that hobby a waste of time or a true time of rest, relaxation and [...]