We know where the field is, too! Boaz was a “mighty man of wealth.” This expression is not found in Scripture anywhere else, but you know that Boaz is a picture of the Lord Jesus, our Kinsman. There is no reason why God’s people should live as paupers; everything our “mighty man of wealth” […]
The land called India, with the immensity of its need, cries out for our hearts. As of May 11, 2000 the population of India officially reached one billion—not one billion statistics but one billion souls for whom Christ died. I cannot take it in. It doesn’t compute. I read the numbers but what do they […]
“Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war” (Jer. 51:20). India is a colorful land and God has sent some colorful Christians to labor there. One of those at the fore was Silas Fowler Fox . “No one sleeps when Silas speaks” was his billing. Silas was born December 22, 1893, just outside Medicine […]
How do we respond to the terror on September 11? The recent terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, DC are perhaps the most tragic events witnessed by many alive today. Many watched in real time as the horrific scene unfolded. Through the medium of cellular technology people listened to the last words of some […]
This doctrine shouldn’t lead to wrangling but to worship. The blazing African sun beat down upon the crowded Arab marketplace as women busily bartered with the merchants. The bustling walkways were lined with storekeepers selling their wares, as the children played nearby. The air was filled with the pungent smell of spices and the confusing […]
Wrapped up in dirty clothes lay a piece of everlasting. When I went to southern India in 1946, there was an orphanage, a school, and a hospital on a mission station in Karnataka state, 100 miles south of Bangalore. At first, I worked as a nurse in the hospital and lived in the orphanage with […]
Gospel Missions of India is one possibility. If you are exercised to help with the great need of spreading the gospel in India, especially the needy north, how do you go about it? Wisdom and discernment are needed because quantities of misplaced money can ruin a work quickly. But a shrug of the shoulders because […]
Am I my brother’s keeper? There he lay in the gathering gloom of the hot Indian evening, hardly discernible from the rags that partly covered him. At a glance, he almost appeared to be just another of the piles of refuse swept into a corner. Then I saw a movement. A dark, scrawny arm appeared […]
What can one person do? What difference does it make? It is a fact that rock—hard, lifeless rock—can become soil that is rich and fertile and workable. So rich that the world’s hungry can be fed from its tableland. So pliable that a child can let the soil run through his fingers. How does it […]