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HT: How did you become interested in missions?
From the time I was a young girl, missions was interesting to me. I wanted to tell others about Christ and his great love.
I loved hearing missionary speakers who visited our church for Faith Promise services. Of course I enjoyed their stories, but I…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
Even though I grew up in a pastor's family in Germany, that does not mean I lived as I should have lived. I didn't. I needed to find out for myself what the world had to offer, and I certainly did. Today, as a youth pastor in the Netherlands, I see young people beginning the same journey and…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
After years of listening to people in my counseling office share their own "shouldas, couldas, and wouldas," I decided I'd live to regret it if I didn't write about this topic. Not that I didn't already harbor my own compunctions. I would love to relive plenty of conversations or open doors of…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
Q: How can we not worry with all that is going on in the world?
I woke up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat. My heart was pounding and my mind was racing. "Will I be able to pay our bills when our first child arrives?"
Even though we were seven months from our daughter's birth,…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
Q: How can we not worry with all that is going on in the world?
I woke up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat. My heart was pounding and my mind was racing. "Will I be able to pay our bills when our first child arrives?"
Even though we were seven months from our daughter's birth,…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
I recall a song my mother often sang when I was a child. The chorus urged, "Just keep along the middle, keep along the middle, keep along the middle of the King's highway." As an adult, I realize how vital that admonition was.
In all of life, finding and walking in the middle of God's pathway…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
I recall a song my mother often sang when I was a child. The chorus urged, "Just keep along the middle, keep along the middle, keep along the middle of the King's highway." As an adult, I realize how vital that admonition was.
In all of life, finding and walking in the middle of God's pathway…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
How do we measure a church?
Attendance, membership, and giving statistics are at times inadequate, if not misleading, indicators of how well churches are fulfilling their mission. The value that members and pastors place on their churches is not easily quantifiable.
For instance, when I asked…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
In September, sometimes as early as late August, Debbie Brown of York, Pennsylvania, starts fluffing trees. Good tree fluffers are hard to find. They are hard working, skilled, and highly trained professionals. Here's what they do: They go to retail stores, unpack the artificial Christmas tree…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
Cultivate the hospitable heart. We should include time for the word, the smile, the visit, the prayer that will find our neighbor’s need before he has to tell us. Act for others. To give courage to an individual is better than to give money. We can make a person better than his or her best by…