We have heard it a thousand times … “Choose your battles wisely!” This famous saying is often not attributed to its rightful author, Sun Tzu. As a brilliant Chinese military strategist, Sun Tzu was a highly respected general of...
My heart is heavy as we leave this place. We have bandaged wounds, treated strange illnesses, and shown the love of Christ the best we could.
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill
In a world where we have everything we want, there are those who don’t—many are children, and they are not invisible. The dedication of mothers and fathers here in Africa is amazing in the face of poverty that has no...
“Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain....
Sometimes things go the way we want them to—sometimes they don’t. In a world where it is more important to spread God’s Word than to eat, we need to be able to accept what He has for us even...
We hope to make a difference, to ease the suffering, to heal broken bodies and cure disease. But as important as this is, it means nothing unless we also carry the Gospel. The most important thing we will ever...
“The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is.” ―...
In the blog It’s Okay To Store Up Our Treasures, we looked at how God rewards us for properly investing the riches He entrusts to us. But oftentimes we don’t think about anything but money when we consider stewardship. What...
“The most glorious reason you exist is for the proclamation of the glory of God to the ends of the world. And it’s more than having a nice life.” – David Platt