Every time I sin, I die a little more.
Something has gone wrong with the human race.
This morning we start our journey home. The Great Circle Mapper says that starting in Taipei, Taiwan, we will travel 8075 miles to Memphis, Tennessee. We go from Taipei to Narita, Japan to Seattle to Salt Lake City and then to Memphis. Nick will travel from Seattle to Detroit and then to Chicago. All told, we will be en route for about 28 hours, in…
When God judges a nation, he simply lets sin take its natural course.
This little chip contains Good News for China. Though it is smaller than my thumbnail, it can hold four gigabytes of data. When we were in China, one of the pastors we met showed us how he uses the chip to play the Keep Believing China broadcast on his cellphone. He didn’t even have a smartphone, just a phone with a tiny screen that you scrol…
Hold lightly what you value greatly because it doesn’t belong to you anyway.
Only God can see the big picture of life.
I am writing these notes from my hotel room in Taipei, Taiwan, which means we are nearing the end of our whirlwind trip. A week ago today four of us left for a visit to China. Two of us–Nick and I–had been to China before. Nick spent a summer in China teaching English in 2006. This is my sixth trip, all of them fairly brief. I’ve …
Here is more good news and bad news. The good news is that everything has a purpose in God’s plan. The bad news is that no one can figure out . . .
“What does the worker gain from his toil? I have seen the burden God has kid on men.” Ecclesiastes 3:9-10When the final examination grades at Cambridge University were published, Henry Martyn’s highest ambition had been realized. He was the honors man of the year. Strangely, his first sensation was keen disappointment. &…