Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. -- Colossians 3:23-24The Bible is very clear that the purpose...
"I'm on a mission!" He told me."What is this mission?" I asked."To find what my purpose is in life," he replied."Have you been on this mission long?""I'm 56. I've been in search of it all of my life," he said."How sad!" I told him.He was shocked to hear that from me....
(This story is taken from a fantastic biography about Brother Andrew, called The Narrow Road)For years I had been working alone. It meant traveling over 80,000 kilometers a year; being away from home two-thirds of the time. I was prepared to do this as long as it...
DANGEROUS CHOLERA OUTBREAK/God's response Rolland and Heidi Baker Maputo, Mozambique 28 February 2001The rivers of central Mozambique continue to rise, cutting many thousands of our own church members off from food supplies and medical help. Upstream dams are being...
A story is told of a Gospel minister, long before the days of railroads, who was traveling on horseback from Philadelphia to Pittsburg. He stopped over night at a tavern among the mountains of Pennsylvania, and after supper asked the landlord some questions about the...
An African pastor was overwhelmed by rebels who demanded that he renounce his faith. He refused. The night before they took his life, he wrote the following lines on a scrap of paper:I am part of the "Fellowship of the Unashamed." I have Holy Spirit power. The die has...
A Christian wrote a letter to the editor of the newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday."I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me I can't remember a...