“To go back is nothing but death; to go forward is fear of death, and life everlasting beyond it. I will yet go forward.” —John Bunyan
Aspire
"Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” —Jesus
Matthew 20:28
In the Indian Ocean, hundreds of miles off the eastern coast of India, a small group of Sentinel tribal people have lived and died for centuries. These remote Islanders have had a renowned reputation for violently resisting contact with the outside world.
A week ago, a young American...
"The motto of every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be ‘Devoted for life.’”—Adoniram Judson
Recently I heard a message by Paris Reidhead entitled, “Ten Shekels and a Shirt.” In this message, Reidhead tells the story of two Moravian missionaries who left their communities to sell themselves into slavery in order to reach African slaves with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As the two...
"Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am." —David Brainerd
"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving." —Amy Carmichael
“Translation is not an art that everyone can practice. It requires a right, pious, faithful, diligent, God fearing, experienced, practical heart” —Martin Luther
Book Review of The Messenger, the Message, the Community, by Roland Muller
Part 1 of 3, THE MESSENGER
Arriving as a young missionary in the Middle East in the 1970’s, Roland Muller was wondering, “How do I go about this?” No one among the missionary church...
"A renewed mind has an utterly changed conception, not only of reality, but of possibility. A turn away from the kingdom of this world to the Kingdom of God provides a whole set of values based not on the human word, but on Christ's. Impossibilities become possibilities." —Elisabeth Elliot