David McCullough – a Pulitzer Prize winning author who has written several best selling historical and biographical books such as Truman, John Adams, 1776, and The Johnstown Flood – did not set out from an early age to become an … (read more)
Recently I stumbled upon an interesting experiment undertaken in eight teaching hospitals here and there around the world. The experiment was simple and straightforward. It cost virtually nothing. And it saved thousands of lives. Surgeons were asked to perform a … (read more)
Recently a friend of mine asked if I thought we were nearing the end of the world. (“We are nearer than previously, I suppose,” I answered sagely.) My friend had been reading his newspaper, I think, and might have felt … (read more)
And they woke him and said to him, Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing? And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, Peace! Be still! And the wind ceased, and there was a … (read more)
Lately the headlines have been dominated with stories about an economic downturn, federal bailouts and an impending global recession. Many will be affected by the worlds financial problems. Non-profit organizations may suffer during times like these, too. Not always, however. … (read more)
In chapter two of James we find a classic New Testament statement regarding the relationship between faith and works. “As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is also dead” (v. 26). The New Testament church … (read more)
I have recently spent a week or so in the Book of Jonah. There is high adventure in this book: a missionary calling disastrously deferred; a crashing storm at sea; a whale of a fish who intervenes when all seems … (read more)
I have recently become familiar with a little book by Nick Earle, titled provocatively “What’s Wrong with the Church?” (Penguin Books, 1961). Nick is an Anglican; he is thinking of the Church of England – and the church of the … (read more)
In the past few months we have revisited our fundamental identity as an organization. We are the World Mission Prayer League. A committed community — this makes us a “league.” With a “working method” — we pray. Commissioned to gospel … (read more)
There are a couple of giving opportunities available through the Prayer League, which can be a benefit to both you and WMPL without changing the amount of your contribution. I have mentioned both of them before, but I think it … (read more)