November 2015 Meditation – INclude

INclude make part of a whole or setcomprise or contain as part of a whole And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.  And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with...

Mission Report November 2015 – Nigeria

When Pastor Bakare stepped to the pulpit for the morning service, he began by reading a text message from one of the men in the congregation.  The text was a request for an appointment to discuss some issues and questions the parishioner had.  The pastor then went on...

Mission Report October 2015 – Bhutan

Behind Closed Doors Every inch of space crammed with young women, breast-feeding babies, school children, high school and college age young men, a handful of adults, and one grandmother.  They all sat on the floor and huddled as closely as possible to accommodate the...

October 2015 Meditation – INdebtedness

INdebtedness in the red in the hole something owed to another A cartoon showed two onlookers commenting as a man passed by holding a sign that read, “The End is Near.”  One of the bystanders remarked to the other one, “Hey, isn’t that Joe from the accounting...

September 2015 Mission Report: India

Pentecost in Kalimpong, India It was Pentecost Sunday, so I preached on “Why Pentecost?” As I explained that Pentecost in the Old Testament commemorated the giving of the Law and that the New Testament experience was the parallel of the giving of the Holy Spirit, I...