Where we’ve been: Medical Missions Seminar
FORT WORTH, Texas — Be Christians first. Then use your education to heal and serve. That was Dr. Bob Whittaker’s advice to 190 physicians, medical personnel…
Archive: Feb 2017
California church family evacuates — and helps the homeless — after dam warning
A minister, his wife and their six children packed one backpack each and left their home in northern California after military personnel warned of potential…
Voices-only: In Christ Alone
Welcome to Voices-only. This weekly online feature highlights the best a cappella videos that come across our eyes — and ears — on the web.…
‘Footloose?’ Not quite. (UPDATED)
UPDATE: The Henryetta City Council Tuesday repealed a decades old ordinance which prohibited dancing within 500 feet of a church. According to the Tulsa World…
Missionaries use YouTube to reach new audience
From cooking to fashion, music to travel and, of course, how-to videos, YouTube has become a place where you can find it all. Within that…
A feast of fellowship in Europe
ROTHENBURG OB DE TAUBER, Germany — I was blessed to experience the recent Euro-American Family Retreat in this medieval town. Bailey McBride | InsightFor years I’ve…
‘Detraining’ to run the good race
Sometimes running coaches have to “detrain” their runners. Hannah Mae Gigstad | In the WordThat doesn’t mean they stop training. Instead, coaches help runners break…
Know Jesus, know each other
As Martin Luther King Jr. sat in a Birmingham jail cell in 1963, Billy C. Curl was 800 miles west, desegregating the campus of Abilene…
As we seek to make disciples, do we need to be discipled?
I’m in the middle of two books: “Multiply” by Frances Chan and “Radical” by David Platt. Both focus on how Jesus called Christians to make…
At the ends of the earth, Gospel grows
Duviara, Vanuatu — From this remote village on the island of Ambae in the South Pacific, Christians made their way along a narrow trail to…
