Imperishable Inheritance

Many Chris­tians believe that when Jesus spoke in Matthew 28 about mak­ing dis­ci­ples of all the nations (peo­ple groups) that The Great Com­mis­sion started right then, but when we look far­ther back we will see that the pur­pose and intent of God of see­ing His name exalted through­out all of His cre­ation started back in Gen­e­sis 1! Cre­ation In Gen­e­sis 1, right after the account of cre­ation, God gives His first com­mand to man: “Be fruit­ful and mul­ti­ply, and fill the earth” (read more...)

Mis­sions is today one of the most abused words in Chris­tian­ity. We speak of mis­sions in a sense that has long since con­vo­luted both the intent and pur­pose of the term. In a com­mon church today, you will find no dis­tinc­tion between reach­ing those who have access to the gospel (reached) and those who do not (unreached). Let me explain this difference. Defin­ing the Reached and Unreached Accord­ing to The Caleb Project, there is at least one church in every polit­i­cal (read more...)

“The New Tes­ta­ment has lots to say about self-denial, but not about self-denial as an end in itself. We are told to deny our­selves and to take up our crosses in order that we may fol­low Christ; and nearly every descrip­tion of what we shall ulti­mately find if we do so con­tains an appeal to desire. If there lurks in most mod­ern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for the enjoy­ment of it (read more...)