Entries from May 2009

May 25, 2009

Lest We Forget — THANK YOU!

Through almost 223 years of America’s history, boys (and in more recent years girls also) have said goodbye to parents and with heads held high have marched off to serve their country. Many of those years have actually been years of peace and a great number of those brave soldiers have never been required [...]

May 23, 2009

The Message of the Missionary

From Steven J Lawson’s book entitled Famine in the Land he gives this quote:
“Noah’s message from the steps going up to the Ark was not “Something good is going to happen to you!”  Amos was not confronted by the high priest of Israel for proclaiming, “Confession is possession!”  Jeremiah was not put into the pit [...]

May 16, 2009

The Unsung Hero

Often not knowing all the reasons why, she nods her head in submission as to the Lord when her husband shares the news that he believes the gospel is to be shared with a tribe who live on another planet in a distant galaxy who speaks “Klingon” and who wear nothing but toothless grimaces and [...]

May 15, 2009

Our Daily Bread Crumbles??

Few who personally know me realize I have concerns over the devotional publication entitled Our Daily Bread. This little publication gives a daily text reading from the Scripture accompanied by a little story of some kind designed to give encouragement as the reader travels the rat race of life for the day.
However, when the [...]

May 14, 2009

Have You Considered?

I have edited this posted to make it distinct from the video I posted on African baptisms. The question to ask as you read is – Have you considered the life of a missionary? May this encourage you to pray more fervently for those who serve the Lord of the Harvest!
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A missionary’s life [...]

May 13, 2009

Are you staying??

HT: artribou

May 12, 2009

Africans Being Added to the Church!

A missionary’s life is never dull! Truly he (and his wife and children) can say – TO GOD BE THE GLORY!!
Video HT: MissionaryTaylor

May 11, 2009

The Heartbeat of God

The Borland and Taylor families are a joint team ministry serving in Kenya, East Africa. Together they are working towards preaching the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the lost in that vast land. They minister among two tribes (Giriama and the Orma) totaling about 330,000 many of [...]

May 8, 2009

Saved from the Sinner’s Prayer!

“Ryan Richie is now a missionary in Peru by the Grace of God, please pray for him and his wife Nicole as they count their lives as nothing and testify to the gospel of the Grace of God.” – HT – I’ll Be Honest
My testimony is similar. I prayed “the [...]

May 6, 2009

People Need The Lord!

The need for workers is great across the world. Oswald J. Smith said, “Why should anyone hear the gospel twice before everyone has heard it once?” (From his book – The Challenge of Missions – p.36)

HT: BereanFBC