QUYỀN NĂNG CAO CẢ CỦA ĐỨC CHÚA TRỜI Ở VIỆT NAM (Ê-phê 1:4-5)

Suffering in vocational ministry

‘We must suffer without self-pity, resentment, and murmuring, but with rejoicing. Then we advance the gospel.’ ‘As a young pastor, I entered the ministry prepared for the rejoicing but not for the suffering. When the inevitable buffetings and… Read More

Teaching you to hate your transgressions

‘“Joni, he cares about your afflictions, but they are merely symptoms of a deeper problem. God cares less about making you comfortable, and more about teaching you to hate your transgressions and to grow up spiritually to love… Read More

Replacing our assumptions with God’s love

‘The Christian life, from one angle, is the long journey of letting our natural assumption about who God is, over many decades, fall away, being slowly replaced with God’s own insistence on who he is. This is hard… Read More

Won over to a gentle Savior

‘When you look at the glorious older saints in your church, how do you think they got there? Sound doctrine, yes. Resolute obedience, without a doubt. Suffering without becoming cynical, for sure. But maybe another reason, maybe the… Read More

Hope of the coming kingdom

‘…You look at me in this wheelchair paralyzed for 52 years and most people would think, “Oh, you’re looking forward to your new body?” And, yeah, Ok. That’s, again, one of those fringe benefits. ‘But I’m looking forward… Read More

Pride growing in our hearts

Key statements: “We know the disease, but we don’t recognize the symptoms.” “We certainly don’t think we deserve suffering, heartbreak, or discipline.” “But when we experience these things, we grow bitter, frustrated, and disturbed because we believe we’re… Read More

Cross-cultural ministry and hardship

‘Gospel work, especially when it is compounded with the wear and tear of cross-cultural ministry in a hostile context, is accomplished because of hard things not despite them. For example, learning a new language and a new script is hard work. There’s… Read More

Missionaries and Difficult Plodding

“A missionary plods through the first year or two, thinking that things will be different when he speaks the language. He is baffled to find, frequently, that they are not. He is stripped of all that may be… Read More

“Success” and Missions: G. Aylward

What would the Baptist missionary Gladys Aylward (1902-1970) teach us about biblical missions? ‘As an adult, Aylward stood less than 5 feet tall in her ragged clothes, and she had little formal education. This small woman looked unlikely… Read More

Recent posts of interest–part 2

Gospel Grace Versus Dead Religion–part 6 (Mục sư phạm tội ngoại tình) Doctrine of the Church for Calvinists Gospel Grace Versus Dead Religion–part 5 Gospel Grace Versus Dead Religion–part 4 Suffering in vocational ministry Cơ đốc nhân Việt Nam: Bạn… Read More