Praise:1. Our Giving Tuesday 2019 efforts to resourcing the work of church planting film teams in West Africa exceeded the goal of $200,000. God moved in hearts to give, so more people can now be reached.2. I have done a better job pacing myself this fall work-wise, during this busy year-end season. 3. I …
Thanksgiving greetings!
At this season of giving special thanks, I am truly grateful to God for friends like you. Your prayers and partnership in the gospel are a clear demonstration of His goodness and provision.May you experience a deeper measure of God's goodness, even today. He is truly the "Good-Gift-Giving" God! "How great is your goodness, which you have …
Because God… Gave
here are many important truths in the Scriptures. I might argue that the most important is found in John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." The Bible reminds us that God is the owner of all. The …
India Job Seeker Sees God Work!
In a southern state of India, film teams are conducting a project to reach the San Jose* speaking people. This is a small migrated community from North India. One of the team held a prayer meeting in a home in September (2019). They shared that “anything you ask in the name of Jesus, you receive …
November Prayer Update
PRAISE: I continue to see slow, but steady improvement in the pain in my legs, and managing around it. In fact, I've improved to the point where I am preparing to participate in a 5K run for the local rescue mission on Thanksgiving day. Thank you again for your prayers. PRAY: Lift up several of my colleagues and …
Real Freedom in Life is Understanding Grace and Generously Giving It to Others and Yourself.
God’s Desire for One-Percenters by Eric Geiger*
When I was in high school I so badly wanted to be tall. We had a couple guys on our high school basketball team that were 6’5” or taller, and I envied them. They could dunk easily. They were more imposing defensively than me. I asked God to make me taller and He did not. …
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Two Essentials*
<Listen> Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ …
The Giving Pledge
This morning I read an article at the Chronicle of Philanthropy that revisits the Giving Pledge, an agreement among some of the richest people in the world to change the way people give. Meeting in 2009, financial superstars like Bill and Melinda Gates, George Soros, Oprah Winfrey, Warren Buffet, Ted Turner and more came up with the …
Spiritual Lifeline*
<LISTEN> If you woke each morning and your heart leapt with hope, knowing that the renewal of all things was just around the corner—might even come today—you would be one happy person. If you knew in every fiber of your being that nothing is lost, that everything will be restored to you and then some, …
