28 Mar God = Good
How do you picture God? Do you envision Him as distant? Angry? Vengeful? Cruel? In truth, He is none of these. God is good. Our God is a God of joy, a God of love. He wants all people to know that He is alive...
How do you picture God? Do you envision Him as distant? Angry? Vengeful? Cruel? In truth, He is none of these. God is good. Our God is a God of joy, a God of love. He wants all people to know that He is alive...
Can there be a more important decision than the one that determines where we spend eternity? Every other decision seems trivial at best when compared with this one. Yet billions, myself included, have made assumptions about salvation that we would never make about any other...
This question can be one of the most informative or one of the most destructive questions we can ask. When it comes to discovery, this question has opened the door to fabulous inventions and modern technologies; however, when it comes to life and death the question “WHY” causes...
For many, salvation through Christ means an escape from eternal judgment. Often as I stand on the open fields of world evangelism, whether I am preaching or standing among the crowd, I find myself declaring the salvation prayer as if it were the first time I said...
Millions of people around the globe today, perhaps even billions, celebrate this Christmas Christ who lives in the heart. This Christmas season, in whatever situation you find yourself, remember—Christmas is not a brightly decorated, commercial season, but it is rather a moment of time when God...
Imagine giving a gift, something very precious which you have taken painstaking effort to prepare for the one you love so much. You've taken time, money and energy to plan the specific moment you will present your gift. AND THEN, the unthinkable happens—the gift is...
It has been many years since Jesus’ disciples went all over the world and preached the Gospel. Many people even today don’t realize that they can accept Christ in their hearts and receive salvation. Around the year 1825, a young Presbyterian man by the name of...
We were having a Tent Festival in Bishkek, where we met a wonderful Christian woman who held a high position in the Kyrgeze government. However, her husband abused her, very often beating her and sometimes locking her out of the house when she came back...
Forgiveness has both a horizontal and a vertical aspect. Horizontal forgiveness releases us from judgments that bind us to unhealthy relationships. It is the gatekeeper to the unforgiving spirit. As long as we are alive, we will encounter hurt and disappointment. What we do with...
Do you feel like you are being swept up in the abundance of change? Do you question the political actions happening all around you? Are you concerned about the moral, political and social change agents in operation? Having lived in Russia almost 10 years, prayer for...