The World Belongs to the Servant

I walked through Children's Hospital in Omaha not too long ago, and I saw a little baby boy there, below two years of age, with tubes running in and out ...

Calvin and Missions

Geneva was not only a refuge to Protestant fugitives, but, under Calvin's influence and direction, it became the hub of a vast missionary enterprise. ...

Too Important Not to Share

One Mercedes Benz TV commercial shows their car colliding with a cement wall during a safety test. Someone then asks the company spokesman why they do ...

Arithmetic from Hell

A kind of arithmetic has been spawned in the counting rooms of hell. This kind of arithmetic is always interested in reaching the masses but somehow never ...

Just Tell Who Jesus Is

My family and team have gone to over sixty countries declaring the glory of God. When I first went to the Muslim-, Hindu-, and Buddhist-majority nations, ...

No Compromise

Joseph Stowell tells of a conversation he had with a pastor in the former Soviet Union.

"Stalin's reign was the worst time," said the pastor. ...

First Baptist Church Mission Statement

First Baptist Church lives to glorify Christ by making disciples who are growing in relationship with God in worship, then with the church in fellowship, ...

Crisis as Opportunity

The modern world is said to have made discipleship harder. But it has also made evangelism easier. Today's world is said to be multiplying crises all ...

You Can't Climb for Others

You cannot pull people uphill who do not want to go; you can only point up.

The Power of Humble Clothing

Missionaries who dressed like the Chinese suffered a few snags. In the gossipy colonial enclaves of Shanghai and Hong Kong, "going native" caused ...