What do you do when you are having a difficult day? Whenever I think I’m having an especially tough time, I read Job. I find some measure of comfort in the fact that whatever my circumstances, Job had it worse. If you stay with Job to the end, you’ll find an amazing […]

There are some things we simply cannot live without. They are so simple they amaze the intellects among us. In John 4:10, Jesus offers Himself as “living water” and two chapters later, in John 6:35, He describes Himself as, “the bread of life.” Bread and water are the very basic, most essential, […]

What a coincidence - at least for me. Yesterday was both Mother’s Day and the Global Day of Prayer. Among many things my mother taught me was the need to pray for the world and those who had been called by God to minister cross-culturally. Her missionary heart led her to […]

The danger of spiritual role modeling is that the mentored often become like the mentor and stop there, rather than moving beyond to be like Jesus. Paul understood that concept and even though he instructed, “Brethren, I urge you to become like me” (Gal. 4:12) he also pointed them ultimately to Jesus. […]