Landon made a great comment to recent post entitled A Global Vision . It was so good that I felt it needed its own posting. Here it goes…
Interesting thoughts…. What about people who do not come through an organization but find a way for themmselves? Most people in America have never even considered the lay workers in the third…

From “Beyond Bosch: The Early Church and the Christendom Shift” by Alan Kreider
Printed in the International Bulletin of Missionary Research Vol. 29, No. 2, April 2005 p. 59-64

Should all Western missionaries pull out of Asia forever? Of course not. God still sovereignly calls Western missionaries to do unique and special tasks in Asia. But we must understand that when it comes to in which Western missionaries are no longer able to do church planting as past eras allowed, the priority must then be to support efforts of…

(Keep in mind this article was written by an atheist…)
If I firmly believed, as millions say they do, that the knowledge and practice of religion in this life influences destiny in another, then religion would mean to me everything.
I would cast away earthly enjoyments as dross, earthly cares as follies, and earthly thoughts and feelings as vanity. Religion would…

In his discourse on “Justification by Faith alone” Jonathan Edwards thus defines justification: “A person is said to be justified when he is approved of God as free from the guilt of sin and its deserved punishment; and as having that righteousness belonging to him that entitles to the reward of life. That we should take the word in such…