Partnering with Local Churches to Train and Send Missionaries Worldwide
Proverbs helps us to see the consequences of wicked living. Though sin promises much, it leaves us little. Let me encourage you to read Proverbs 28 to see just how much damage wicked living causes us and those around us.
Visitors – We had many visitors this past month: friends from Northern Ireland, missionaries to Africa, and a mission team from America. Missions Weekend – The Shumaker family, missionaries to Burkina Faso, was able to be with us for a
Proverbs has much wisdom to share about friendship: Friends should be lovingly honest with one another. Loving rebuke from a friend is better than kisses and flattering from an enemy (27:5-6). Even kings will want to be friends with those
Sometimes we learn more from bad examples than good examples. Bad examples can show us what not to do and can expose similar mistakes in our own lives. Proverbs often talks about the fool. Below are some of the characteristics
Proverbs 25:19 says “Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.” Just as walking with a lame foot or eating with a broken tooth cause great pain, so
In 2023, the world population is expected to exceed 8 billion people. Every day, 360,000 people are born and 151,600 die. If 8% of the world are ‘evangelical Christians’ (according to some estimates), then, every day, 139,000 people die without
Another area in which we need wisdom is in our us and abuse of the gifts that God gives. Things that God designed to be a blessing (food and drink) can become a curse if we don’t use them wisely.
The book of Proverbs contains wise sayings that are generally true. This means that there are exceptions to the rule, but they do give general principles of wisdom that guide us. One of those that is been often referred to
Proverbs 21:1 says “The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water:He turneth it whithersoever he will.” God wants us to know that even kings, with all their power and wealth, are not outside His
‘Integrity’ is defined as ‘the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles’ or ‘the state of being whole and undivided’. It comes from a world that means intact and is connected to integer (a whole number that cannot
