As I begin this devotional, my prayer is that it will help all of us to come to understand how much our Father loves us and how much He is willing to help us when we are in need.When Henrietta Mears was 12 years old, she began to feel pain in her joints. It got to the...
One night outside the festival auditorium in Riga, I met another Jewish woman who said that she loves to sing the songs of the Jewish people. She had some advice for us about how we should sing an old Jewish song, "Yiddishe Mama." I asked her to sing, and she...
Early in my pastoral ministry I received one of those middle-of-the-night telephone calls that every pastor dreads: "Pastor, our son has been in an accident. They don't expect him to live. Could you please come to the hospital?"I arrived at the hospital about one in...
"We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ." - 1 John 1:3Jim Elliott was born in Portland, Oregon in 1927. He came to the Lord when he was six...
Think of ways to encourage one another to outbursts of love and good deeds. (Hebrews 10:24 NLT)Have you ever found yourself in situations where there was no one you could turn to for encouragement, no one who understood the way you were feeling or when people felt you...
I was home on furlough from Guyana, South America. It was my privilege to be invited back to speak to a church of which I was pastor eleven years earlier. We brought a missionary message and explained that we would use volunteer construction teams to build a new...
In August 1997 when we were holding the International Festival of Jewish Music and Dance in Riga, I met a woman in her seventies. She told me she was an obstetrician and midwife. Along with thousands of others that evening, she had come to one of the largest...