The sign of Jonah
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)
TIP Editorial
Building the Kingdom
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)
The Ends of the Earth
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)
A Mission to the World
Two months ago we considered our “league-ness.” Last month we examined our commitment to prayer. This month we will have a look at the mission that commands us into the world. We are the World Mission Prayer League – a … (read more)
A Community at Prayer
Last month, we described our “league-ness.” This month let us remind ourselves: the World Mission Prayer League is a community at prayer. I write to you from the backbone of the Andes, the high altiplano of Bolivia. I have been … (read more)
Remembering our “League-ness”
I have been reading a wonderful book in recent days by Alan Hirsch, a converted Australian Jew. He calls it “The Forgotten Ways” (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2006). We have been forgetting things though the years, Hirsch contends. Ways … (read more)
Transposition
I have been thinking a little lately about transposition — the process, that is, by which musicians ratchet a tune up (or down) the musical scale, from one key to another. It is a wonder to behold. I have seen … (read more)
Now … Let’s Get Going!
This month, now at midsummer, let’s get going. There is very much work to do! Sometimes, of course, we should be slowing down. We must measure our pace along the road to Jericho, for example – as the Good Samaritan … (read more)
The Road to Jericho
This month, at the beginning of the summer, let’s slow down. As for myself, I have developed through the years a fast-paced ritual to begin the day. I am up and coffeed early in the morning. I pause, on most … (read more)
Ascension … in the Nick of Time!
Thank goodness for the Ascension! Our Lord made his departure, I think, in the very nick of time. The disciples, you see, were on the verge of (another) colossal blunder. They were experienced in colossal blunders, actually. What made matters … (read more)