Imperishable Inheritance

One thing I have learned in my short Chris­t­ian life is that I have lived a short Chris­t­ian life. By that, I mean I’m learn­ing the value of endurance in this endeavor. I never thought I would enter into a stage of pas­siv­ity and indif­fer­ence towards my spir­i­tu­al­ity, but I have found myself in that very state. It is espe­cially con­vict­ing that we are explic­itly told to “lay aside every encum­brance and the sin which so eas­ily entan­gles us, and let us run with endurance the race that (read more...)

Here now is the sec­ond install­ment of my trip recap to North Africa. An Unreached Vil­lage in an Unreached Land Our next excur­sion was into the moun­tains to visit a “clas­sic” unreached peo­ple group. We vis­ited a Berber vil­lage. Berber peo­ple are to North Africa as Native Amer­i­cans are to Amer­ica. In fact, many of the early church fathers (Augus­tine for exam­ple) are Berber. They are stretched all along North Africa. When the Mus­lims came through in (read more...)