Missions Blog

People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace driven effort people do not gravitate towards godliness, prayer, obedience to scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance. We drift toward disobedience and call it freedom. We drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation. We slouch towards prayerlessness and dilute ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism. We slide towards godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.”

DA Carson

I’m reading “Kneeling Christian” by an unknown christian at the moment.  Found it at ccel.org, which if you have never been to is and incredible place to find old christian titles for free.  Check it out here.

This quote by Archbishop Trench is why I’m writing:

“We must not conceive of prayer as overcoming God’s reluctance,” says Archbishop Trench, “but as laying hold of His highest willingness.”

Why do we so often doubt that God has a desire to answer us?  We do not believe Him to be good or loving.

Overseas Missionary Fellowship, or OMF, is making a docudrama on the life of James O. Fraser and his ministry among the Lisu people.  I’m really excited about this project.  Check out jofraser.org for the trailer and more information about the film.  You can preorder it for $9.99, which sounds like a really good deal.

Mountain Rain is one of my favorite missionary biographies.  James O. Fraser life is inspiring and a testimony to what God will do if His people just call out to Him.

Thanks for letting me know Beth!

Since becoming a Christian in 1998 something “crazy” seems to happento me almost weekly/monthly.  Either I’m dramatic, or I just notice more than most people.  Well, actually, maybe it has to do with being a friend of God and His continual reminding that He is at work in my life.  I just figured some of them would be good to document.

So I spent this weekend in Dallas and my friend Jay spent the weekend in Houston.  I felt bad that we missed each other so I decided that on my drive back to Houston I would call him and we could catch up.  This is the first few seconds of our phone call

Me: Are you staying in Houston tonight or driving back to Dallas?

Jay: No, I’m driving back.  What about you?

Me: Yeah I’m driving back right now

Jay: Where are you?

Me: Not sure, uhh…

Jay: What mile marker

Me: Umm, hold on, 196.

Jay: Hey me too, HEY I JUST SAW YOU!  WOW THATS INCREDIBLE, I’VE NEVER EXPERIENCED ANYTHING LIKE THAT!”

Me: WOW THATS CRAZY!

You get the gist.  I decided to call him in a 20 second window for that to happen.  It was hilarious.  I was driving back to Htown for a friend’s going away party.  When I walked in I was like “Hey you guys would not believe what happened on my drive back.” A party goer to me “I know. Jay called me right after that to tell me how incredilbe it was”  Way to spoil it for me Jay, way to spoil it for me.