by Richard Schweissing | Aug 2, 2018 | Opinion
Have Christians in the United States forgotten our historic commitment to taking the whole gospel to the whole world? More than 200 years ago, Christians in the U.S. sent their first missionary to Burma to share the gospel. Since then, missionaries have been sent to...
by Mitch Randall | Aug 2, 2018 | Opinion
When the wheels on the Boeing 767 touched down in Beirut, Lebanon, I had no idea what I was to encounter. After a week experiencing an incredibly diverse and warm culture – and encountering the hospitality of such a gracious people – when my plane lifted me up over...
by Brent McDougal | Aug 1, 2018 | Opinion
A fellow pastor once shared with me about a time when his 5-year-old daughter was stealing cookies. The rule was one per day, but he began to notice that the amount of cookies in the jar was rapidly decreasing. “Have you been taking cookies when you knew that was...
by Ginger Hughes | Jul 31, 2018 | Opinion
By: Ginger Hughes Our family is enjoying a fun-filled vacation at the beach this week. We’ve walked on the beach, played in the surf, eaten delicious seafood, visited a planetarium, indulged in one too many ice cream cones, built a sand “mountain,” and even read some...
by Jim Kelsey | Jul 31, 2018 | Opinion
I shoved my passport through the chain-link fence and shouted, “Permesso di soggiorno, permesso di soggiorno.” My two sons and I had arrived in Italy on the previous Friday morning to begin our sojourn as missionaries; Debbie, my wife, would arrive in a few weeks....
by James L. Evans | Jul 31, 2018 | Opinion
Many religious folk have freely dubbed America a “Christian nation” for a long time now. This peculiar moment in the history of our republic has created an urgent need to probe the meaning of such a claim. To get started, some definitions are necessary, beginning with...
