Mission Quote #11

“Among many who sought to deter me was one dear old Christian gentleman, whose crowning argument always was, ‘The cannibals! you will be eaten by cannibals!’ At last I replied, ‘Mr. Dickson, you are advanced in years now, and your own prospect is soon to be laid in the grave, there to be eaten by [...]

Mission Quote #10

“You wonder why people choose fields away from the States when young people at home are drifting because no one wants to take time to listen to their problems. Ill tell you why I left. Because those Stateside young people have every opportunity to study, hear, and understand the Word of God in their own [...]

The Heart of the Gospel – John MacArthur

While I do not enjoy the handclapping at John’s sobering reminder of what the heart of the gospel is, I appreciate what he has to say in this short clip!

HT: Camponthis

Mission Quotes #8 & 9

“It will not do to say that you have no special call to go to China. With these facts before you and with the command of the Lord Jesus to go and preach the gospel to every creature, you need rather to ascertain whether you have a special call to stay at home.”
Hudson Taylor
“Answering a [...]

Emotional, relevant, and ALL-inclusive Inauguration Prayer

The following is the prayer given by Rick Warren at the Inauguration of President-Elect Obama. I will add my comments in italics below a few sections. However, I first want to say that I wondered what he would say and whether it was even a good idea for him to be offered the [...]

Service to Liberia

I believe that it is important to support the work of missions. Over the next few months, we will be sharing the need of various missionaries. These are true heroes who are willing to leave it all behind in order to seek the advancement of the kingdom of God. They are doing [...]

Mission Quote #7

“‘Not called!’ did you say? ‘Not heard the call,’ I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for [...]

Mission Quote #6

“The command has been to ‘go,’ but we have stayed in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth…but 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland.”
Robert Savage, Missionary who served with Latin American Mission

Mission Quote #5

“Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there, Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim shall be to make the Man of Sorrows the Man of Joy by the conversion to him of many.”
J. Hudson Taylor

Mission Quote #4

“I have but one passion – it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ.”
Count Zinzendorf