Monthly Archives: February 2012
Our Ministry- Surprising Global Opportunity
(I originally wrote this article for the blog SBCVoices.com) In a town across the waters live members of one of the world’s largest unreached people groups. In the past 20 years, their population in this city has grown from about 8,000 to around 60,000. While their home country’s political situation is tumultuous, in this new [...]
Were the Apostles Lazy Bookworms?
As we prepare for our move to New York in June, I’ve been reading through Acts a chapter a week. (I did Luke’s Gospel in a similar slow-cooker fashion last year). This week I hit Acts 6, where the early Christians experience their first internal discord that we read about in Acts. Before this, their [...]
When Saul Became Paul…
A zealous young Pharisee named Saul, from the city of Tarsus, encounters the risen Messiah Jesus, in a blinding vision. He is converted from killer of Christians to Christian. He no longer goes by the name Saul and changes his name to Paul upon conversion, and becomes the great missionary of early Christianity. Or so [...]
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