Tag: mission

  • Outlive Your Life

    Max Lucado does an excellent job of conveying the simple truths of the Gospel in his latest book Outlive Your Life: You Were Made to Make A Difference. The author uses very simple and plain language to give us the why and how of getting back to the original message of Christianity. He uses a…

  • Everyone Matters

    I just finished reading The Butterfly Effect: How Your Life Matters by Andy Andrews which I was provided by Book Sneeze to review. This book is a short inspirational book that covers a couple of real world examples of what science has called the butterfly effect. The book starts out with an explanation of the…

  • A Natural High

    I’ve discussed this topic before, but it’s fresh on my mind given that I just returned from a mission trip again. I went to Diamond Willow Ministries in Central South Dakota. It is located on the Crow Creek Reservation which at the last census was in the poorest county in the entire nation! I cannot…

  • The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns

    The book The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns is a call to action for Christians wrapped in the story of the author’s journey from the executive boardroom of a large and prestigious corporation in the east to the headquarters of World Vision U.S. in the state of Washington. This story in itself is an awe…

  • Just Another Vacation?

    I was reading my mom’s cousin’s blog about a recent trip she took to Costa Rica as sponsor for the senior class at the Christian school she teaches at in Marion, Indiana. I thought that it would make a great topic for a blog on personal growth. Then today at church, we had a lady…