by Dr Delron Shirley | Jul 21, 2015 | Australia
2009 Several years ago, I published an article entitled “Missionaries on Vacation” in which I told the story of how a fishing trip in Mexico turned into a trip for fishing for men. Since that time, I don’t think that we’ve been on a vacation that didn’t turn into a...
by Dr Delron Shirley | Mar 21, 2015 | Meditations
Probably the most famous quote in all the annals of missionary history is the greeting of newsman and adventurer Henry Stanley when he finally reached missionary and explorer David Livingstone in the remote interior of Africa, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” On this...
by Dr Delron Shirley | Feb 21, 2015 | Meditations
Walking through the street market in Lagos, Nigeria, I caught sight of a vendor hawking some antique-looking items. As I stepped closer, he extended his hand to show me what looked like a crescent-shaped bracelet and explained that he had “old Nigerian...
by Dr Delron Shirley | Jan 21, 2015 | Meditations
When David wrote what we know of today as Psalm chapter fifty-one, it was a verbalization of the deepest cries of his heart in repentance for the sins that he had committed in violating an innocent neighbor and then plotting her husband’s murder in his attempt to...
by Dr Delron Shirley | Dec 21, 2014 | Meditations
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach...
