July August 2023

On Mission . . . in Pakistan

Reading Time: 4 minutesEditor’s note: This issue’s On Mission pages are devoted to three short stories of what is happening with the…

A Message of Hope

Reading Time: 5 minutesIn those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is…

Go and Show

Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter His resurrection, Jesus’ guidance of His disciples changed from “Come and see” (John 1:39) to “Go and show”…

True Revival

Reading Time: 4 minutesRevival has been in the news lately. Stories of college students holding all-night, weeklong services sparked breathless hope for…

A Pastor’s Dream

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI have a dream of a church without unbiblical legalism that undermines love for our neighbor, and a church…

The Power of Words

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth with words. He said, “Let there be,” and there…

Repent and Believe

Reading Time: 5 minutesA Cherokee proverb tells of a grandfather teaching his grandson the ways of life: “Within me rages a terrible…

Astonished Again

Reading Time: 2 minutes“Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the evil in his days, but I will bring the…

A Whole New You

Reading Time: 5 minutesMy daughter, Aubrey, was ten or eleven years old the time she and I went together to the grocery…

The Apostolic Gospel

Reading Time: 9 minutesYou must have faced the challenge from time to time, I suspect, of answering weighty questions that were put…