On Being Fired From Worship Leading

Matthew 22:37-38 37And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38This is the great and first commandment. For the past several months, I have been in a season of learning to love God...

Proving Spiritual Principals by Mathematical Analysis

I was inspired today as I was reading my friend Jenny-Joy’s blog entry on being sick with malaria for the 4th time in 5 months.  She is a missionary with Iris Ministries in the country of Sudan in Africa.  The following is quoted from her blog as she struggled...

Intercessory Burn Out

I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone … (1 Timothy 2:1 NIV) Intercession.  What is it?  I don’t feel that I can adequately define it. But something clicked in me today.  I used to be a man of...

Domingos Fernando

11 years old, so full of life, with a singing voice like an angel.  “Brrrryan!” he would scream at me from halfway across the base.  I have seen him at every Tuesday night home group for worship and prayer.  The first weekend I was here we had a youth...

The Prayer of Baygon

The ministration of this prayer shall be completed once the apparatus upon which thou sleepest has been duly and thoroughly fumigated with the Lord’s wrath and fury toward all bugkind, otherwise known as Baygon Insect Repellant. “We thanketh thee, O Lord,...

Visitor’s Guide to Dining in Pemba

One thing you learn quickly is that the seven hour time difference from home is not the only indication you are on African time. For example, say you are going to meet people at 5:00pm to go out for dinner. Most likely, the process might look somewhat like this: *...