In the first full week of June, our missionary staff, inquirers and candidates, together with a few members of our governing Council, gathered in retreat at a family resort near Balsam Lake, Wisconsin. We gathered to pray for the evangelization … (read more)
“In that day you will no longer ask me anything. I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name” – John 16:23 While driving through central Mexico a few years ago some children … (read more)
Our western church, as we mentioned last month, is absolutely awash in old-fashioned philosophical dualism. At a deep, mostly unconscious level, we have come to picture the world in terms of “sacred” and “secular,” “spiritual” and “material” – two vast, … (read more)
“Don’t think too highly of yourselves, but take a sane view…” (Romans 12:3, Beck)
A few years ago, while visiting the Science Museum of Minnesota, I was introduced to a powerful pictorial representation of the universe – from the minute domain of subatomic particles to the in-com-prehensible scale of interstellar space. The display is called “Powers of Ten.”
At a scale of 1:1023 meters (i.e., one meter to ten to the twenty-third power meters), our entire galaxy is but a speck.
"Thou art the man" (2 Samuel 12:7). I am recently reminded of an episode from the life of that great Christian poet and apologist, G.K. Chesteron (1874-1936). The episode occurred nearly one hundred years ago, in the uncertain period leading … (read more)
"Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it?" (Luke 15:4) Let me share with you … (read more)
Recently I came across an encouraging headline statistic. The unevangelized world is shrinking. In the year 2000, the overall number of the unevangelized decreased by approximately four million souls… Beneath the headline, however, the story becomes more complicated. The "overall … (read more)