While in Thailand, I’ve met some missionaries who made some ridiculous decisions. Almost foolish if you think about it. But this is what you’d expect according to the Bible… One of the missionaries, Dr. Lee, was an economics professor in Korea. He gave that up and went to China with his two young children. If you […]
Psalm 35:12-14 12 They repay me evil for good. I am sick with despair. 13 Yet when they were ill, I grieved for them. I denied myself by fasting for them, but my prayers returned unanswered. 14 I was sad, as though they were my friends or family, as if I were grieving for my own mother. One […]
Have you ever forgiven yourself? Many of us who grew up in moralistic settings – you are accepted only if you are good – we have this underlying sense of guilt. We know we have been forgiven by God through the work of the Jesus on the cross on our behalf, but we still can’t shake the […]
Ecclesiastes 11:4-5–He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap.5 As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything. Are there things in life that you are hesitant to do? […]
Hello, devotional subscribers! Our Thailand mission team came back from Thailand safely last Friday. The six of us went to northern Thailand for two weeks, and led English camps, VBS’s, and English classes at public schools. We have realized yet again how many opportunities there are for those who live in America and speak English to […]
2 Kings 5:11–But Naaman was angry and went away, saying, “Behold, I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call upon the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper. It would be wrong to say that expectations are bad, because they can […]
Hebrews 2:16–For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham. It seems as you get older the propensity to plainly ask for help gets harder and harder. It may be because we have accrued so many disappointments in asking, that we begin to be harden, and begin to […]