It has already been said that the sermon below by David Platt is perhaps the greatest missions message ever preached. I was a freshman in college when the buzz about John Piper’s sermon “Doing Missions When Dying Is Gain” filled the campus of University of Mobile. Not long after that, I embarked on my first [...]
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The Call of Our This Generation
April 16, 2012Matt Papa – Here Am I, Send Me
August 19, 2011Yes.
Great Expectations Require Great Resignation
July 12, 2011Adoniram Judson knew well the call of God and life on mission. It is evident that he held a sense of sobriety afforded by plunging deep into texts like Matthew 10. One thing for sure is that Jesus could never be charge for false advertising when it comes to following him. When it came time [...]
Reflections on Haiti Mission (June 2011)
June 29, 2011This past week, I had the privilege of taking a team from Bowling Green, KY to Haiti to partner with a church in Saint-Marc, Haiti (here’s a satellite image of the mountain village where the church gathers). This was my third trip to Haiti in the past 9 months since we started our mission work [...]
Haiti Bound
June 20, 2011This morning, I’m leaving for my third trip to Haiti. In case you’re wondering about how my relationship with Haiti got started, these posts will give you a good idea. I’m particularly excited about this trip for two reasons: 1. This is the first trip where I will be leading a team from another church [...]
Support NYC Mission :: VBS Offering
March 28, 2011I want to echo what Steve McCoy recently posted on his blog, namely, encouraging you to check out the 2011 Big Apple Adventure Vacation Bible School Missions Offering. Freddy Wyatt is lead pastor of Gallery Church in New York City and a faithful brother heading up this project. They are doing a good work in [...]
Do We Really Believe What We’re Saying?
March 23, 2011David Platt, currently ministering in northern India, asks a really important question. May we answer with our lives.
Off to Haiti
January 3, 2011For the next ten days, I will be with 8 other men from Grace working in Haiti to train 50 Haitian pastors in a gospel conference and rebuild a church building destroyed in the earthquake. For those of you not aware of the back story, read these blogposts (here, here, and here). Pastor Joseph, our [...]
The Spirit of Christ Is a Missionary Spirit
December 7, 2010Octavius Winslow, perhaps the best devotional writer you’ll ever read, communicates truth that provoke and stir up affections for Jesus in such encouraging ways. This is a recent example from his Morning Thoughts: The Spirit of Christ is an active, benevolent Spirit. It bore the Savior, when He was in the flesh, from country to [...]
This Picture Tells It All
September 28, 2010I did not realize that I had captured this shot until I got back to the states. Since then, I have been unable to get it off my mind (click on the image to see a larger version). The expressions are gripping. Prayerful faith. Confident trust. Transcendent joy. Further back there is expressions of uncertainty, [...]
Can Anything Good Come Out of Haiti? Part 3
September 27, 2010–> Part 1. –> Part 2. While in Haiti, I learned some things that made a big impression on me, some of them I want to share with you. But before I do that, I want to mention that I am giving a 2-part report to my church on my experience in Haiti. The report [...]
Can Anything Good Come Out of Haiti? Part 2
September 23, 2010–> Part 1. You know about those emails from pastors or church leaders in another country asking for help? I get them all the time. Call me skeptical, but I’m pretty sure that most of them are not legit. So when I got an email from a pastor in Haiti in town looking for a [...]
Can Anything Good Come Out of Haiti? Part 1
September 22, 2010I’ve been back from Haiti for four days now. It hasn’t been easy to get back into the swing of things, and I’m not sure that it is supposed to after the sights and sounds of being in a third world country. I have been to numerous countries on short-term mission trips, but going to [...]
We Have Not Forgotten
September 14, 2010By the time you read this, I will be en route to Haiti for the rest of the week. How all this came about is rather remarkable. Like many of you, we felt an urgent need to minister in Haiti after the earthquake, especially since is located in our backyard (globally). We had already planned [...]
New Edition of Operation World Coming This October
July 20, 2010I first caught wind of this while breezing through Twitter updates and confirmed it on Amazon. Operation World is coming out with a new edition this October. While I have been grateful for the directional prayer this book has offered in years past, I have become especially fond of it since coming to Grace as [...]
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