February 6, 2022 | Philippians 1:27-30 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue When Martha’s pastor visited her in the hospital, she assured him that she wasn’t afraid. “I’m ready to die,” she said. “I’m glad to hear that,” he replied. “But what if you recover? Are you also ready to live?” Conduct yourselves in a manner worthy […]
February 4, 2022 | Philippians 1:12-18 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Some churches approach ministry like they are planning a marketing campaign. They talk about platforms and branding. They use social media to create a positive public image. The more people who know about the church, the better their image and the more successful they […]
May 28, 2021 | 2 Thessalonians 3:1–5 DEVOTIONS A recent survey by Arizona Christian University found that most American adults believe a gospel of works, that is, they don’t believe the true gospel at all. About 48 percent think that if they are generally good or do enough good things during their life they will […]
May 3, 2021 | 1 Thessalonians 1:4–10 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Welsh missionary Timothy Richard arrived in China in 1870. For 45 years, he preached the gospel; distributed Scripture and Christian literature; organized famine relief; and founded schools, orphanages, and training programs. When this faithful servant died in 1919, he was recognized as one of […]
February 1, 2021 | Romans 1:1–17 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue When I was a boy, I tried to earn extra money selling newspapers door to door. I was not a success. My sales pitch went something like this: “You wouldn’t want to buy this paper, would you?” Some of us share the gospel the same […]
November 17, 2020 | Acts 16:1–40 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Adam and Eve, David and Jonathan, James, and John are a few of the famous pairs you will meet in the Bible. In today’s passage, we are introduced to Timothy, who would later become Paul’s protégé in ministry. Paul would later say of Timothy, “I […]
June 22, 2020 | Galatians 2:7–16 DEVOTIONS .. This Month’s Issue Even after Peter’s life-changing restoration by Christ, he remained human. That means he was also not exempt from additional failures. One day, while Peter was praying on a roof in Joppa, God gave him a vision. Peter saw a sheet full of unclean animals […]
DOORS FOR THE GOSPEL March 29, 2020 | 1 Corinthians 16:5–14 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Missionary Evie “Granny” Brand was 68 years old. Her mission board told her she was required to retire, but when she begged they granted her one more year in India. At the end of that year, she did retire . […]
Maasai is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people. The Maasai people are mostly cattle headers. The Assemblies of God church (Ghana) on a mission program went to Kenya to evangelize to the Maasai people. Showing of Jesus film was the church’s own mode of propagating the […]