The theme of my website is “Getting to Know Jesus,” and my theme verse is John 12:21, where two Greeks say to the disciple Philip, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.” What follows is a story of four other men who made that same request. ———————————- On November 2, 1845 four German […]
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The Martyrdom of St. Boniface (fresco by Carl Hesse) My family has been Christian for many generations. For a time I was the pastor of a small rural congregation that my ancestors were members of after immigrating to Minnesota from Germany in 1875. My great-great-great grandfather, Johann Christian Frederick Stier is buried on
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In 1606 a chain of eighty islands in the South Pacific was discovered by Fernandez de Quiros of Spain. In 1773, the islands were explored by Captain James Cook who named them ‘New Hebrides’ because of the similarities with the Hebrides Islands off the Northwest coast of Scotland. In 1980, the New Hebrides
2600) Eaten by Cannibals? No Problem. Read More »
Christian missionary efforts have often been criticized for destroying the unique cultures of indigenous peoples. Old photographs of native people in steamy jungles dressed in black suits and ties for worship do indicate that mistakes were made. However, in many places there were significant cultural practices that did need changing, as we can see in
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“The Staggering Rise of the Church in Iran” By Afshin Ziafa, lead pastor of Providence Church in Frisco, Texas, where he lives with his wife and three children. —————————— For many years, Iran was one of the most difficult regions of the world to reach with the gospel. A significant development occurred in
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From “China’s War on the Bible: If You Can’t Ban It, Alter It” by John Stonestreet and Roberto Rivera at: http://www.breakpoint.org ————————– A recent article at WORLD Magazine reported how the Chinese-language app called “WeDevote” recently surpassed 10 million downloads. That number, as well as the overall success of “WeDevote,” is even more remarkable given the back
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“The Scandalous Missionary” by Robert Petterson, in The One Year Book of Amazing Stories, Tyndale, 2018, pages 513-514. A clipper ship sailed from Liverpool on the winds of prayer. On board was a wild-eyed, twenty-one-year-old visionary on his way to China as a missionary. In 1853 Hudson Taylor (1832-1905) might as well have
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By Philip Yancey, posted March 25, 2019 at: http://www.philipyancey.com I once attended a retreat with a prominent Palestinian legislator, activist, and scholar. She introduced herself by saying, “I am quadruply marginalized. I am a feminist woman in a male-dominated society. I am a Christian from a predominantly Muslim society. I am a Palestinian,
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Above: Clean water from a well provided by missionaries —————————– (…continued) Now, back to the critics. There are those who say we should not do this anymore. We should not interfere with these primitive people with our modern technology and our religion. Rather, we should respect their culture and who they are and stay
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(…continued) First, a story. In 1961, Bruce Olson (1941- ), a nineteen year old from Minneapolis, Minnesota, went off to be a missionary to the Motilone people of South America, who he had read about somewhere. This tribe had quite a reputation in Columbia. Up to that time they had killed every white person
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