Blog

12 Sep

Building Family Arks

“But, as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15 “The overwhelming majority of Christians in the world had Christian parents who poured the gospel into them from infancy. More people are won to faith by their parents than by all evangelists, missionaries, pastors, and Christian workers combined.” -Andy Davis “Two Journeys” Last month we hosted a seminar at Mudzi Owala, where over 1000 hungry hearts came seeking to find Christ in His Word. I had the privilege of...

01 Jul

No Vain Life for Me!

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” Jim Eliot “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit his very self? (Luke 9:23-25) There are key moments...

16 Jan

Looking and Longing

“The people who have accomplished the most in this life have had their hearts and minds fixed on the next.” “All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised but only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. People who say such things show they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the...

11 Oct

Our Great and Glorious Search

“Oh God, you are my God. Earnestly I seek you; my soul thirst for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life my lips will glorify you.” Psalm 63:1-2 “The sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose...

24 Jun

The Power of the Preacher

“His throne is his pulpit; he stands in Christ’s stead; his message is the word of God; around him are immortal souls; the Savior, unseen, is beside him; the Holy Spirit broods over the congregation; angels gaze upon the scene, and heaven and hell await the issue. What associations, and what vast responsibility!” -Matthew Simpson In the next two weeks we are teaching our students on the subject, “How to Preach Biblically.” The Kingdom of God marches forward by the preaching...

15 Dec

CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH

“Peace if possible; truth at all costs.” -Martin Luther “Dear Friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt I had to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.” Jude 3 The Bible and historical evidence reveal that the greatest danger to the life and mission of the church comes not from the diabolical tyrants outside the church, but from deceitful teachers within...

17 Apr

SHINY HOPE FROM A SLIMY PIT

Difficulties, dangers, disease, death or divisions don’t deter any but (Chocolate Soldiers) from executing God’s will. When someone says there is a lion in the way, the real Christian promptly replies, “That’s hardly enough inducement for me; I want a bear or two besides to make it worth my while to go.” Missionary C. T. Studd “I waited patiently for the Lord. He turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit and placed my...

28 Jan

Time For Big Men to Stand Tall

“When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.”- Walter Savage Landor  We look for big men, men of character, leaders who have integrity and will not compromise their principles no matter what it costs them; leaders who have the wisdom to tackle the tremendous challenges of our day. We look for them, but, we find few. Most of our leaders are small. The fact that our country has elevated them to leadership...

30 Dec

A Meticulous Christmas and the Sure Hope of a Glorious New Year.

“Even if I turn out to be wrong, I shall bet my life on the assumption that the world is not idiotic, neither run by an absentee landlord, but that today, this very day, some stroke is being added to the cosmic canvas that in due course I shall understand with joy as a stroke made by the Architect who calls Himself Alpha and Omega.”  Claude Kilby  “In Him we have been chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him...

01 Oct

He Got It!

“Love is helping people toward the greatest beauty and the highest value and the deepest satisfaction and the most lasting joy and the biggest reward and the most wonderful friendship and the most overwhelming worship- love is helping people toward God. We do this by pointing to the greatness of God. And God does it by pointing to the greatness of God.” John Piper- Let the Nations be Glad, p. 28 “Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love that we...