Articles for Outreach & Missions

God gives us open-book tests, but we don’t know we have been examined until it is over. The point of these tests is to determine "Can God trust you?"

An overcomer disciplines his internal conversation toward a focus of praise to God. Discipline involves regulating your thinking and conduct by principle—not emotion, impulse or circumstances.

Newer generations of Africans live in constant fear of the spirits of poverty, sickness, failure and depression. They seek out a “pastor” or a prophet or a bishop for some formula that may give them spiritual power for a breakthrough or a deliverance. This is the new animism of Africa.

For many of us, we’ve had a loved one or a friend’s loved one decide to end their life, and it has left us with many questions. For instance, does suicide send you to hell?

Globally speaking, the church is at a significant crossroads right now. We’re watching the geographical epicenter of our faith shift from its centuries-old epicenter in the West to the Global South

Deep within, we know that structure we build on the outside is protecting us only from what we need the most: the love of God, the communion of saints, the carrying of the cross. We are, in the end, protecting ourselves from blessing.

When Jesus said that we are unprofitable servants, He did not mean that our service is of no value.

A hand is outstretched before you. Do you put money in it or do you decline?