While in China, Buddy, John and I had the privilege of visiting some historic sites. Many of these places contain thousands of years of history. During our stay in that beautiful land we had the privilege of visiting some great historic sites like Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace and the Great Wall. …
In addition to being Resurrection Sunday, yesterday was also the final round of The Masters. The famed tournament hosted at Augusta National Golf Club came down to a 2-man playoff between Bubba Watson and Louis Oosthuizen which Watson won thanks to a spectacular 155-yard wedge shot from the pine straw on #10. That video is …
jet·lag (jĕt’lăg’) n. A temporary disruption of bodily rhythms caused by high-speed travel across several time zones typically in a jet aircraft. American Heritage Dictionary For those who read my daily blog, please accept my apology. Jet lag has beaten me down and finally conquered me. I am wiped out. At the present time, I …
I saw this online yesterday. Continue to pray for our brothers and sisters in China. Police and government officials, including those from the religious affairs bureau, launched a surprise raid on a lawfully operating Christian bookstore in the Shanxi provincial capital of Taiyuan confiscating all of the store’s stock and taking its managers in for …
It was a travel day. More than that, it was a day of uncertainty. Buddy, John and I were leaving the familiarity of Hong Kong by heading north to the unfamiliarity of mainland China. My anxiety centered on the fact the translator I had befriended through Skype three months prior would not be joining us …
Any of you ever read about this tyrannical elder in the church? I think I met his brother a few years ago in Mississippi. 9 I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority. 10 So if I come, I will bring up what …
J. Hudson Taylor was the founder of the China Inland Mission. One day a man, attempting to find out the difficulties of missionary work, asked Hudson Taylor, what is the hardest mission in the world? Without any hesitation whatsoever, Hudson Taylor replied, “The hardest mission in the world is submission to God.”
God has used James 4:6-8 to help teach me how to resist the devil: 6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he …
And they shall be called The Holy People, The Redeemed of the Lord; and you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken. Isaiah 62:12 The surpassing grace of God is seen very clearly in that we were not only sought, but sought out. Men seek for a thing which is lost upon the …
I know many of you have been speaking with our Father recently. Thank you for checking in with Him about our needs. We are doing well. Today is another big travel day. I’d like to thank David (March 18), Tait (March 25) and Steven (March 4, 21, 28) for speaking in my absence. I am …