“Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. O let the nations be glad and sing for joy…” (Psalm 67:3-4, KJV) “Missions is not the ultimate goal of the Church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not […] 
Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” (John 4:13-14) The […] 
Gordon-Conwell Seminary, a multi-denominational evangelical seminary on the East coast, releases a quarterly ministry magazine called Contact Magazine. Their Spring 2011 issue features several articles relating to the topic of theology. Here is the issue’s description from their website: Theology tends to get a bad rap in evangelical circles. But this issue of Contact […] 
Brian Croft, Senior Pastor of Auburndale Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, writes about how sharing the greatness of God with children: We make teaching children too complicated. Children learn like we do, it just needs to be simplified a bit. How do we as adults learn about the greatness of God? God’s […] 
“Heaven is not heaven without Christ. It is better to be any place with Christ than to be in heaven itself without Him. All delicacies without Christ are but as a funeral banquet. Where the master of the feast is away, there is nothing but solemnness. What is all without Christ? I say the […] A great video from former coach of the Indianapolis Colts, Tony Dungy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL7QV8UNm58 “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?” (Mark 8:36) 
A Mission-less Society You might find it hard to believe that in the late 18th century the majority of Protestant churches had very little interest in international missionary outreaches. They believed that Jesus’ Great Commission to go out to all the nations was only for the generation of the apostles. Silly right? Well, this […] A good word from Steve Hafler (former missionary in Kenya and Zambia): Near the end of his extraordinary life, William Carey was becoming a household name in England. Biographies were being turned out to an eager public. Even mementos of Carey’s life were prized as almost sacred objects. One day a friend of Carey’s was […] 
Kelly Kapic, commenting on the life and ministry of John Owen: The goal of the Christian life is not external conformity or mindless action, but a passionate love for God informed by the mind and embraced by the will. So the path forward is not to decrease one’s affections but rather to enlarge them […] I know I recently shared a video by Francis Chan, but I couldn’t pass up on the opportunity to share this one too. (HT: Armstrong) |