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Thrice Thankful
Thursday, November 28, 2024

In this season of thankfulness, we reflect on three priceless gifts from God that shape our lives and work: His Word, His Son, and His Church. Each of these gifts not only affects us personally but should fuel our mission to make God’s truth known among all nations.

Flash in the Pan or Stream of Light?
Thursday, October 17, 2024

When I was a young man, a friend of ours brought a musket for us to observe. He showed me and my brother how to load it. When he fired the musket there was first a flash in the pan and then an explosion. The small quick flash of burning powder ignited the powder in the main chamber resulting in...

#TranslationTuesday
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

“We are praying that God will send young men and women who will be obedient, out of love to see this job done, regardless of the hardships they will encounter. One must count the cost and be prepared to live a life of toil, loneliness, and danger. Your work may carry you far from comforts and...

#TranslationTuesday
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

"I believe that we have only begun to scratch the surface of the possibilities of the power of God, of what He can do, what He intends to do."
— Cameron Townsend, founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators

A Peek Behind the Scenes
Friday, January 5, 2024

A small team of church planters and Bible translators has been working hard for many years. They finish the Bible translation. They ordain leaders in the local church. They leave a maturing church that can continue to grow in the Word. They return to their home congregation and receive...

A Conquering Faith
Friday, December 1, 2023

More than conquerors through Him that loved us
We fight in this our day.
Surrend’ring only to the Lord of Lords
Who strengthens us to stay…

Unmoved and strong regardless of the war.
We fight the battles strong.
Heeding the Commander’s written orders,
...

#TranslationTuesday
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

"Is it not better to have one good idea and to live for that and succeed in it, than to scatter one’s life away on many things and leave a mark on nothing!” -John G. Paton, South Seas missionary

Missionary Perfection?
Friday, May 5, 2023

One afternoon I hiked ten minutes to our neighbors to ask if I could buy some goat manure. We wanted to plant a small garden plot and some fertilizer would be a help. When I arrived, I noticed his wife who only speaks Tarahumara sitting outside, but the man was nowhere around. I said the usual...

#TranslationTuesday
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

"Being genuinely at home among a people and in a culture is a necessary condition for the authenticity of the Gospel wherever it is preached. Failing this, the profession of the Christian faith remains only a veneer, sooner or later to wear out." —Laurenti Magesa

#TranslationTuesday
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

“The missionary life is not a sprint; it is a marathon” —Robert S. Miller

From the book SPIRITUAL SURVIVAL HANDBOOK

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  • “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Romans 10:17
  • “Repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And you are witness of these things.” Luke 24:47, 48
  • “Go therefore, and make disciples of all nations.” Matthew 28:19
  • “In you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Genesis 12:3
  • “That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the Gospel.” Ephesians 3:6
  • “That they all may be one; as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us; that the world may believe that You sent Me.” John 17:21
  • “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’?” Mark 11:17
  • “Ask of me, and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance.” Psalm 2:8
  • “Behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes.” Revelation 7:9
  • “Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run swiftly and be glorified.” 2 Thessalonians 3:1
  • “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” 2 Timothy 3:16
  • “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” Psalm 119:105
  • “As cold water to a weary soul, so is good news from a far country.” Proverbs 25:25
  • “More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.” Psalm 19:10
  • “All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before You.” Psalm 22:27
  • “Truly, as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.” Numbers 14:21
  • “Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples. For the LORD is great and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.” Psalm 96:3, 4
  • “For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.” Habakkuk 2:14
  • “That all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God; there is no other.” 1 Kings 8:60
  • “For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down, My name shall be great among the Gentiles; in every place incense shall be offered to My name, and a pure offering; for My name shall be great among the nations.” Malachi 1:11
  • “All nations whom You have made shall come and worship before You, O Lord, and shall glorify Your name.” Psalm 86:9
  • “For as the earth brings forth its bud, as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.” Isaiah 61:11
  • "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!" Psalm 46:10
  • "This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth." 1 Timothy 2:3, 4
  • "You are worthy. . .; for You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and have made us kings and priests to our God." Revelation 5:9, 10