Often we don’t understand the impact our mission team has on those who host us.  Yes, we see the results or hear lots of thanks and appreciation.  But do we know how disruptive hosting a team can be to a missionary in the field?  It does not mean we don’t take teams, but we can…

Given the current encroachments on religious freedom here in America, I think it is worth paying attention to what is going on around the globe – especially in places we think of as having the religious freedom that we do.  Take a look at this roundup of issues in Britain.  They include: Shutting the office…

I found this to be fascinating… a seminary professor who believes there to be really only two religions in the world and therefore two worldviews.  If he is right, we may have a much easier time teaching our students about these matters.  At the same time, it’s not as simple as it may at first…

If money were not an obstacle, I would take a group of students here every summer! http://www.keswickyouth.com

Sitting and listening to sermons is something I love to do.  Most of the time it is a very positive experience, sometimes it really is not.  The latter is when one of two things is taking place.  Either the preacher cannot preach and lost me or he is distorting the gospel or scriptures.  So, I…

Years ago I was deeply inspired by a book I read on Columba by Nigel Tranter, a Scottish historian.  While it was an historical fiction, it gave me a sense about how the gospel spread across Scotland.  Everything else I have read on the subject was consistent with the picture of evangelism painted by that…

I thought this was rather amusing and worth the time to read… It used to be easy for Christians to formulate an opinion about tattoos. Sailors had them. And some prisoners. Other than corpsmen and convicts the only ink you saw in church was on the page. This is not a pointed tirade against tattoos,…

Wow! If the pro-choice movement is going to get rid of the pro-life movement (and there is evidence that they want to), they have to get rid of religion.  If you don’t know the making of the French Revolution, it pushed atheism in order to change government because the government was so linked to the…

An article that was floating the blogs recently may be helpful as you discuss sexuality and same sex attraction with your students…  Hopefully you are discussing it.  This one speaks of a celebrity who has chosen to be gay and the gay community does not like her characterizing it as a choice.  Read about it…