Listen to an audio version of this post at http://media1.imbresources.org/files/150/15063/15063-83366.mp3Don’t look back.That is one of the worst pieces of advice you’ll ever hear. Naturally, you hear it all the time. “Positive thinkers” and pop psychologists love it. Forget the past, they say. You can’t change it, so why dwell on it? Move on. Suns […]
Listen to an audio version at http://media1.imbresources.org/files/148/14842/14842-82233.mp3I had to sympathize with rock singer Bono when he discovered he was uncool.Uncool? The frontman for supergroup U2, one of the biggest bands in the world? The activist who travels the globe and meets with kings and presidents? The guy so hip he probably wears his trade […]
Patrick Johnstone discusses evangelical Christianity’s global “awakening” (VIDEO) --http://media1.imbresources.org/files/148/14850/14850-82285.mpgEvangelical Christianity, once marginalized geographically and philosophically in the modern world, has become a truly global faith over the past half century — with two main competitors.“The chief conten […]
Listen to an audio version at http://media1.imbresources.org/files/148/14841/14841-82226.mp3Easter is coming. It’s the day we mark the biggest moment in history: the moment the resurrected Christ conquered sin and death.A few years ago I shared some “little Easters,” the quiet epiphanies that continue to reveal His risen presence on the move around the […]
Listen to an audio version of this post at http://media1.imbresources.org/files/147/14761/14761-81899.mp3A missionary with years of experience in the Muslim world was visiting back home in the United States when he struck up a friendly conversation with an immigrant shop owner.“I said, ‘Thanks for coming to America,’” the missionary recalls. The shop […]
JOLA-FONYI OF SENEGAL AND THE GAMBIA (JOH-luh-FOH-nyee) - On May 18-24, a two-man 'vision team' from a church in Ohio will be in the Casamance region of Senegal. Along with the Jola-Fonyi Team, they will be visiting four or five different Jola villages, praying through the villages, sharing 'Creation to Christ' and other Bible stories, ch […]
PUNJABIS OF INDIA (pun-JAH-bees) - As the summer quickly approaches, many college students will be heading to South Asia on volunteer trips. Some of these trips will be for one or two weeks, and others will be for the entire summer. These teams will be doing a wide range of ministry in many different areas, and some will be coming to the Punjab area! Please […]
Even though he was wrapped in a towel, J’s skinny, six-year-old body shivered as he squatted to carve a word in the wet sand: “babtize.” When he had walked out of the cold ocean a few minutes earlier, he looked unsure even though he held his father’s hand. What, he had wondered, were the right [...] […]
Have you ever had one of THOSE days? Not the kind where things are truly bad and you get lots of sympathy and prayer support from your loved ones because you have truly hit a rough patch and really need it. No, that’s not the kind of day I’m talking about. I’m talking about one [...] […]