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Thursday, January 6, 2015 Two gunmen enter the office of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine in Paris, France, killing twelve people...

If we love Christ, then we will love his bride. This is the legacy of the man whom Jesus himself said there was none greater: John the...

A young Christian in East Africa was walking home from the countryside where he was sharing the gospel with his family. Suddenly he was...

Scars are an interesting thing, aren’t they? We all have them. Most of them are hidden; many of them are invisible. Whether they come...

On Sunday, I’ll be handing out arrows. Two sets of parents will come forward. They’ll stand before the church holding newborns. I’ll say...

Paul Bäumer was a ghost when he left the trenches of World War I. Returning to his family and town, which had changed little, he was...

I started wearing glasses in the fourth grade. The optometrist whispered to my mom, “He’s nearsighted in one eye, farsighted in the...

I love the enthusiasm I encounter among aspiring missionaries. It drips from them like water from your hands when there are no paper...

Luke Holmes (@lukeholmes) is the pastor of First Baptist Church of Tishomingo, Oklahoma. Never heard of it? No surprise. Neither had...

In this article I want to convince you of two things: that missions decisions can exhaust you, and that missions convictions can refresh...

Over the past decade, John Piper’s categorical way of thinking about missions and the local church has invigorated countless people....

Culture shock, day 1 of 1,095. On my first day as a missionary, while riding from the airport to my new home in the obscurities of East...

Recently, I was on a personal retreat at a nearby monastery. With my Bible and journal in hand, I tiptoed away to the surrounding knobby...

Churches are like mountains. They’re beautiful—but they can kill you in twenty different ways. This quote has been laying the Sriracha to...

For eighteen years I spent the first hour of my day listening to country music. My mom’s alarm clock was set (loudly) to the local...

Now I can’t unsee Star Wars. It started when my wife observed how the futuristic films manage to be simultaneously primitive and...

At least a thousand times, my two-year-old has woken up before dawn to watch her beloved Nature Cat, a cartoon produced by the Public...

“Wilson!” You probably know it as the most famous line from the film Castaway, starring Tom Hanks. If you haven’t seen it, the story...