Every answer to prayer is a miracle. Today I would like to highlight some of the answers to prayer I’ve witnessed in my years of living in the Tarahumara mountains.
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“...Pastors and churches had to preach in French. Many speakers of regional languages don’t understand, thinking God is the God of other people. But now, when we hear Scripture in Obamba, we know: God speaks my language! He’s our God, too!”
— Prescillia, a lady from Africa
“I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.” — Martin Luther
Adam Boyd, a translator friend that has spoken at a number of events for All-Nations, serves with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Papua New Guinea. He recently posted the following:
Thwack, thwack, thwack! I stepped out one fresh morning and was greeted by the sound of my neighbor’s ax splitting firewood. The wife was starting her day by splitting wood to make tortillas over a fire. The man was already outside close to the goat pen. He was carefully shoveling goat manure...
“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...
It is a helpless feeling to look into an indigenous person’s face and realize you have no way of communicating. The team enters as learners in the community because of their inability to communicate. Culture and Language Acquisition (CLA) is their first task.
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"The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity."
— Mike Stachura
How should Christians navigate between the two extremes of a charismatic fascination with supernatural activity on the one hand, and a purely naturalistic mindset that denies its existence on the other? Timothy Warner attempts to present a balanced view on the subject that is rooted in the...
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
— C.S. Lewis