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Send us a textIn this episode, we get a close-up look at immigration - from the immigrant's perspective. Ken welcomes veteran actor, Stelio Savante who plays a key role in the new independent film, “Between Borders.” In his nearly forty years as an actor, Stelio is a SAG award nominee with over 140 credits in television, and theatrical releases. In the popular series, The Chosen, Stelio plays the role of Moses. Ken and Stelio talk about his career in film. They follow his journey of faith, starting in his country of birth - South Africa. From Capetown, Stelio goes to college in the United States where he excels in sports - and in theater.Then they get into the powerful drama of the film, Between Borders. Stelio plays the role of an American Missionary who meets Armenian refugee Ivan and Petrosyan family in Russia. Here's a summary from the official web site - “In a crumbling Soviet Union, the Petrosyan family finds themselves as outcasts—wherever they go. Their Armenian heritage marks them for discrimination, first in their home country of Azerbaijan and then in Russia. After finding their eternal hope through a church planted by American missionaries, the hostility of everyday life pushes them to seek refuge in the United States. In the shadow of exile, hope became their home. Based on a riveting true story of faith and hope set amidst great oppression.”The role of Violeta Petrosyan is played by Elizabeth Tish (who plays Mary in The Chosen). Ken and Stelio unpack the power of the story and Stelio's identification, himself an immigrant and now a citizen. Stelio also tells the story of his role as Moses in The Chosen, and Demas (one of the thieves crucified with Jesus) in The Two Thieves.SHOW NOTES - See links to Stelio's work.Between Borders Official Site - How to see the filmBecome a Patron | Ken's Substack PageSupport the show

In Missiology Reimagined: The Missions Theology of the Nineteenth-Century African American Missionary (Pickwick, 2024), Kent Michael Shaw I examines the lives and theology of early African American missionaries of the Antebellum and Reconstruction era. The enslaved and formerly enslaved constructed a hermeneutic and interpreted the sacred text through a lens that contradicted the enslaver's version of Christianity. They engaged Scripture on their own terms and embraced a theology of mission that compelled them to risk death and re-enslavement to pursue a global mandate from God. These pioneering missionaries were not only mission workers but missiologists. The reader will discover an applied missiology with relevance not only for the African American church of that day but for the church as a whole today. Dave Broucek is a retired cross-cultural missionary/coordinator of continuing education/international ministries director, having served on the staff of two faith-based nonprofits, The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM) and South America Mission (SAM). He holds a PhD in Intercultural Studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

In Missiology Reimagined: The Missions Theology of the Nineteenth-Century African American Missionary (Pickwick, 2024), Kent Michael Shaw I examines the lives and theology of early African American missionaries of the Antebellum and Reconstruction era. The enslaved and formerly enslaved constructed a hermeneutic and interpreted the sacred text through a lens that contradicted the enslaver's version of Christianity. They engaged Scripture on their own terms and embraced a theology of mission that compelled them to risk death and re-enslavement to pursue a global mandate from God. These pioneering missionaries were not only mission workers but missiologists. The reader will discover an applied missiology with relevance not only for the African American church of that day but for the church as a whole today. Dave Broucek is a retired cross-cultural missionary/coordinator of continuing education/international ministries director, having served on the staff of two faith-based nonprofits, The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM) and South America Mission (SAM). He holds a PhD in Intercultural Studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In Missiology Reimagined: The Missions Theology of the Nineteenth-Century African American Missionary (Pickwick, 2024), Kent Michael Shaw I examines the lives and theology of early African American missionaries of the Antebellum and Reconstruction era. The enslaved and formerly enslaved constructed a hermeneutic and interpreted the sacred text through a lens that contradicted the enslaver's version of Christianity. They engaged Scripture on their own terms and embraced a theology of mission that compelled them to risk death and re-enslavement to pursue a global mandate from God. These pioneering missionaries were not only mission workers but missiologists. The reader will discover an applied missiology with relevance not only for the African American church of that day but for the church as a whole today. Dave Broucek is a retired cross-cultural missionary/coordinator of continuing education/international ministries director, having served on the staff of two faith-based nonprofits, The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM) and South America Mission (SAM). He holds a PhD in Intercultural Studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

In Missiology Reimagined: The Missions Theology of the Nineteenth-Century African American Missionary (Pickwick, 2024), Kent Michael Shaw I examines the lives and theology of early African American missionaries of the Antebellum and Reconstruction era. The enslaved and formerly enslaved constructed a hermeneutic and interpreted the sacred text through a lens that contradicted the enslaver's version of Christianity. They engaged Scripture on their own terms and embraced a theology of mission that compelled them to risk death and re-enslavement to pursue a global mandate from God. These pioneering missionaries were not only mission workers but missiologists. The reader will discover an applied missiology with relevance not only for the African American church of that day but for the church as a whole today. Dave Broucek is a retired cross-cultural missionary/coordinator of continuing education/international ministries director, having served on the staff of two faith-based nonprofits, The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM) and South America Mission (SAM). He holds a PhD in Intercultural Studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

In Missiology Reimagined: The Missions Theology of the Nineteenth-Century African American Missionary (Pickwick, 2024), Kent Michael Shaw I examines the lives and theology of early African American missionaries of the Antebellum and Reconstruction era. The enslaved and formerly enslaved constructed a hermeneutic and interpreted the sacred text through a lens that contradicted the enslaver's version of Christianity. They engaged Scripture on their own terms and embraced a theology of mission that compelled them to risk death and re-enslavement to pursue a global mandate from God. These pioneering missionaries were not only mission workers but missiologists. The reader will discover an applied missiology with relevance not only for the African American church of that day but for the church as a whole today. Dave Broucek is a retired cross-cultural missionary/coordinator of continuing education/international ministries director, having served on the staff of two faith-based nonprofits, The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM) and South America Mission (SAM). He holds a PhD in Intercultural Studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

In Missiology Reimagined: The Missions Theology of the Nineteenth-Century African American Missionary (Pickwick, 2024), Kent Michael Shaw I examines the lives and theology of early African American missionaries of the Antebellum and Reconstruction era. The enslaved and formerly enslaved constructed a hermeneutic and interpreted the sacred text through a lens that contradicted the enslaver's version of Christianity. They engaged Scripture on their own terms and embraced a theology of mission that compelled them to risk death and re-enslavement to pursue a global mandate from God. These pioneering missionaries were not only mission workers but missiologists. The reader will discover an applied missiology with relevance not only for the African American church of that day but for the church as a whole today. Dave Broucek is a retired cross-cultural missionary/coordinator of continuing education/international ministries director, having served on the staff of two faith-based nonprofits, The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM) and South America Mission (SAM). He holds a PhD in Intercultural Studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Missiology Reimagined: The Missions Theology of the Nineteenth-Century African American Missionary (Pickwick, 2024), Kent Michael Shaw I examines the lives and theology of early African American missionaries of the Antebellum and Reconstruction era. The enslaved and formerly enslaved constructed a hermeneutic and interpreted the sacred text through a lens that contradicted the enslaver's version of Christianity. They engaged Scripture on their own terms and embraced a theology of mission that compelled them to risk death and re-enslavement to pursue a global mandate from God. These pioneering missionaries were not only mission workers but missiologists. The reader will discover an applied missiology with relevance not only for the African American church of that day but for the church as a whole today. Dave Broucek is a retired cross-cultural missionary/coordinator of continuing education/international ministries director, having served on the staff of two faith-based nonprofits, The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM) and South America Mission (SAM). He holds a PhD in Intercultural Studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-south

How do American elections affect our work among the nations? Does God really care about our votes? Whatever your answer, we need to pray and seek wisdom and discernment in all matters political.

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For our Special Valentines livestream, we had the privilege of having our former guest and good friend Ian and his lovely wife Carla Gennari. Ian Kristoffer is the author of "Making Disciples & Leading Others to Them", he is also a singer songwriter, and he is an American Missionary in Mozambique Africa. He and his wife Carla founded the Compelled Ones Mission. Compelled Ones is a team of missionaries focused on reaching the unreached communities in Mozambique through health care, education, community development, and making disciples that make disciples. He and his entire family including his kids serve the Lord by ministering together as a family.We will start by hearing them share their epic love story to us. You will hear how God has been an important part of their relationship and how God has been the center of their relationship even before they got married. They will answer the question on how single people or people who are dating knows if the person they want to be with or they are dating is the one that God wants them to spend their life with. You will also hear one of our listeners and friends share her thoughts on what we are talking about, and Ian and Carla will give their feedback on the topic of divorce, forgiveness and letting go of bitterness. Our prayer is that through his love story that you will have a more intimate relationship with Jesus and that you will have Him as the center of your relationship.  Make sure to follow us so you don't miss the rest of our conversation of our livestream.If you want to connect with them, you can go to: compelledones.org and you can buy his book in Amazon by clicking this link: https://a.co/d/5pecAgF We also want to say thank you to our Spotify Sponsor for our music which is called "You, Me, and Jesus" by Arbor NorthWe would also love to hear what you think of our interview and let us know if you have any questions or comments by going to any of our social media links.    Thank you for listening and supporting us and always remember to Come to Jesus Daily! Stay bless and until next time.Connect with us through our Social Media Links:Email us at cometojesuswithannette.mahal@gmail.com Twitter and Instagram: @AnnetteMahal FB: Come to JesusYou can help support our podcast ministry and partner with us reach further to build God's Kingdom through our Patreon account which is www.patreon.com/user/posts?u=81226509 or you can give a onetime donation of donating for our coffee ministry or be a part of our monthly supporters to be a part of our monthly livestream and the other benefits that goes with it by going to: www.buymeacoffee.com/cometojesusYou can also send us a voice message if you are listening in Spotify or by sending your questions or comments to (571)601-0067.

Ian Kristofer is the author of "Making Disciples & Leading Others to Them", he is also a singer songwriter, and he is an American Missionary in Mozambique Africa. He and his wife Carla founded the Compelled Ones Mission. Compelled Ones is a team of missionaries focused on reaching the unreached communities in Mozambique through health care, education, community development, and making disciples that make disciples. He and his entire family including his kids serve the Lord by ministering together as a family.In this episode, you will hear Ian share the moment that he made a decision to accept Christ as his personal savior and why he made that decision at that time. He also shared the importance of your name to God and what it means to have a history with God? He also shared how he build that history in his relationship with Christ. Finally, he shared the two encounters that he had on hearing the voice of God telling him that he will be a Missionary. If you are raising a pre-teen or teenager, how will you keep their eyes focus on God so that they won't backslide on their faith in God? How do you discern if what you hear is from God, the enemy or from your own desires? Ian answered all this questions and I promised you will be so blessed with his answers because he gave some good powerful advice on these topics, and you have to listen to it for yourself. Our prayer is that through his life testimony that you will have a more intimate relationship with Jesus and hear his voice in your life and that you will be God's disciple and share Jesus to others.Thank you again Ian for the powerful messages and advice you gave in our show and for the beautiful live music that you composed and sung at the end our conversation. The title of the song is called "Glory" and he wrote it based on John 1.If you want to connect with Ian, you can go to: compelledones.org, You can also send him an email in compelledones@gmail.com, and you can buy his book in Amazon by clicking this link: Making Disciples And Leading Others To Make Them: A Missionary Family Discovers The Essentials Of How Jesus Made Disciples Who Made Disciples : Kristofer, Ian: Amazon.com.au: BooksThank you for listening and supporting us and always remember to Come to Jesus Daily! Stay bless and until next time.Connect with us through our Social Media Links:Email us at cometojesuswithannette.mahal@gmail.com Twitter and Instagram: @AnnetteMahal FB: Come to JesusYou can help support our podcast ministry and partner with us reach further to build God's Kingdom through our Patreon account which is www.patreon.com/user/posts?u=81226509 or you can give a onetime donation of donating for our coffee ministry or be a part of our monthly supporters to be a part of our monthly livestream and the other benefits that goes with it by going to: www.buymeacoffee.com/cometojesus

In 2018, American missionary John Chau was killed while attempting to contact and convert the Sentinelese, a group of people who have lived in voluntary isolation for centuries. A new documentary explores what led Chau to believe it was his duty to convert the people of North Sentinel Island, and looks back at the ways missionary work has been misguided, and even harmful, throughout history. Directors Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss join us to discuss their film, "The Mission," which premieres in theaters today.

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In this episode, Greg and Nathan invite Matt Smith back to help us consider where we are as the mission field. Just like when a person goes overseas to study and assimilate into a culture, we as American Christians should be learning and assimilating into our culture, so that we can preach the gospel more effectively. 

In 1901, 53 year old Annie Grout passed away. Many people remembered her contributions as an educator, her commitment to social justice, and her love of the natural world. She was born at a South African mission, she taught at one of the original HBCU schools after the Civil War, and pursued botanical and wildlife preservation hobbies while living in Brattleboro. Here's her story...

The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 10, October, 1890

The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 08, August, 1888

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"Is it ok that I do more in you than through you" --God to Nick while on the mission field in New Zealand. Former American missionary to Kiwis in New Zealand and Friendly American with a Great Beard--- Nick Maddy shares about how he found God through the car crash of his friend in college, how he decided to give up everything for 'God', and how he had a horrible time in New Zealand as a missionary.... and might go back. For people of faith, have you heard a call "to go" from God like Nick did, if so what did you do about it? For agnostics and atheists, do you see any harm in the way Nick leads his life trying to "listen to God's voice"? Follow us and DM us your answers on Instagram @betweentwoworldspodcast Intro song by: Matthew Lee Lohr Outro song by: Jan-Pieter Eversdijk --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/betweentwoworldspodcast/message

Sponsor: Click here to learn more about Medi-Share, the most trusted name in health care sharing.Top headlines for Saturday, March 25, 2023The U.S. Department of Justice is being sued over what plaintiffs describe as an inadequate response to violence against churches and pro-life pregnancy centers as pro-abortion vandalism continues across the U.S.A California missionary and a French journalist abducted in Niger by an Islamic terrorist group have been released.The largest United Methodist Church congregation in Michigan has voted to leave the mainline Protestant denomination over the ongoing debate over homosexuality and same-sex marriage.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that his government will not pass a bill that would criminalize Christian evangelism, a proposal that drew concern from American Evangelicals.Subscribe to this Podcast Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts Overcast Follow Us on Social Media @ChristianPost on Twitter Christian Post on Facebook @ChristianPostIntl on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube Get the Edifi App Download for iPhone Download for Android Subscribe to Our Newsletter Subscribe to the Freedom Post, delivered every Monday and Thursday Click here to get the top headlines delivered to your inbox every morning! Links to the News DOJ sued over response to pro-abortion vandalism | Politics News Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade in abortion ruling | Politics News American missionary abducted in Niger released after 6 years | World News Christian college mourns student killed by drunk driver | U.S. News Michigan's largest UMC congregation votes to leave denomination | Church & Ministries News Methodists in Eastern Europe, Eurasia planning to leave UMC | Church & Ministries News West Texas A&M president cancels 'derisive, divisive' drag show | U.S. News Israel won't pass ban on sharing the Gospel, Netanyahu says | World News

Sponsor: Click here to learn more about Medi-Share, the most trusted name in health care sharing.Top headlines for Saturday, March 18, 2023An American missionary pilot and two other men who were jailed in Mozambique for more than four months on suspicion of supporting insurgents in the war-torn nation have been released from prison.Only half of U.S. pastors are “very satisfied” with their vocation, marking a steep decline in pastoral satisfaction over the past decade, according to a study released by Barna Group.Former Liberty University President Jerry Falwell, Jr. has filed a lawsuit against the Evangelical institution his late father founded, claiming he's owed $8.5 million in retirement funds.A historic church in Virginia that the nation's first President George Washington helped design recently installed a pair of plaques to honor those who built the structure, including those who were enslaved.Subscribe to this Podcast Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts Overcast Follow Us on Social Media @ChristianPost on Twitter Christian Post on Facebook @ChristianPostIntl on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube Get the Edifi App Download for iPhone Download for Android Subscribe to Our Newsletter Subscribe to the Freedom Post, delivered every Monday and Thursday Click here to get the top headlines delivered to your inbox every morning! Links to the News American missionary pilot, 2 others released from Mozambique jail | World News Only half of pastors 'very satisfied' with their vocation: study | Church & Ministries News W. Va. asks Supreme Court to allow law protecting girls' sports | Politics News Judge strikes down law banning boys competing in girls' sports | U.S. News Jerry Falwell Jr. sues Liberty University for $8.5 million | U.S. News Hillsong Church announces changes in financial stewardship | Church & Ministries News Church George Washington helped oversee honors enslaved builders | Church & Ministries News Raymond Arroyo laments push to erase stories of US heroes | Children's News

It's Friday, March 17th, A.D. 2023. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I'm Adam McManus. By Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com) Eight Members of Congress Call for Religious Freedom in the UK Eight members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to Rashad Hussain, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, raising concerns over the United Kingdom's unfair treatment of Christian beliefs, reports International Christian Concern. The letter speaks to an “unsettling path that could potentially result in existential threats to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and even freedom of thought” in the U.K. The letter, led by GOP Rep. Chip Roy of San Antonio, Texas, cites at least five municipalities in the U.K. where “Public Spaces Protection Orders” have been passed. These orders allow government officials to prosecute certain religious beliefs if those beliefs are expressed within a designated “buffer zone.” Furthermore, legislation is pending to expand the zones into other municipalities, including throughout England and Wales. Catholic priest charged with praying outside abortion mill Sean Gough, a Catholic Priest in Wolverhampton, England, was recently charged for praying silently outside of a closed abortion mill, reports Fox News. GOUGH: “Everyone has the right to pray in their mind. It's wrong for the authorities to censor parts of the street from prayer, even silent prayer, from peacefully having conversations, and sharing information that could be of great help to women who want an alternative choice to abortion. I pray every day, everywhere I go, and prayer can never be a crime. “I was charged for praying for freedom of speech and for an old bumper sticker on my car, that read, ‘Unborn Lives Matter.' Every human being is precious and equal. And I'm proud to be a voice for the unborn, the most vulnerable group of people in our country.” Indeed Isaiah 49:1 says, “The Lord called me before I was born, while I was in my mother's womb, He named me.” Thankfully, the charges against Sean Gough were dropped on February 16th. Mozambique released American missionary pilot Praise God! Our prayers have been answered. An American missionary pilot and two other men who were jailed in Mozambique for more than four months on suspicion of supporting insurgents in the war-torn nation have been released from prison, reports The Christian Post. According to the U.S.-based ministry Mission Aviation Fellowship, Ryan Koher and two South Africans, W.J. du Plessis, age 77, and Eric Dry, age 69, left prison late Tuesday afternoon. The pilot and the two other Mission Aviation volunteers were arrested in November 2022 while preparing to help load vitamins and other supplies on a plane bound for an orphanage in Cabo Delgado, the northernmost province in Mozambique. The African nation is the 32nd most violent country for Christians worldwide. FDA authorized COVID boosters for 6-month-olds, citing trial with just 24 patients The U.S. Food & Drug Administration authorized booster doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 shot for children as young as six months based on a trial of just 24 patients, reports LifeSiteNews.com. On March 14, the FDA announced it is amending its emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, Bivalent, to allow a single booster dose for children between six months and four years, at least two months after being initially vaccinated. Buried in the press release, however, was the revelation that “among individuals 6 months of age and older, safety was assessed in participants in two clinical studies.” The only trial of this vaccine for those ages had "24 participants 6 months through 23 months" and "36 participants 2 years through 4 years of age." Aaron Siri, an attorney who represents clients who object to medical mandates, tweeted, “This may be a new low, even for FDA.” Climate alarmist Greta Thunberg exposed Conservative author and political activist Brigitte Gabriel exposed climate alarmist Greta Thunberg for the fraud she is. In a now deleted 2018 tweet, Thunberg claimed that a top climate scientist predicted that “climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels in the next five years.” Here we are, five years later, and, thankfully, all of humanity has not been wiped out. Mrs. Gabriel, thank you for exposing Thunberg. St. Patrick brought thousands to Christ in Ireland And finally, today is St. Patrick's Day.  But if you think it's all about wearing green, think again. Born in Britain in the fourth century A.D., 16-year-old Patrick was kidnapped by Irish pirates when they attacked his family's holiday villa by the sea before dawn.  Sold into slavery in Ireland to a Druid tribal chieftain, Patrick made a decision to follow Christ in the midst of his greatest trial. In his autobiography, Confession, Patrick wrote, “the Lord opened my senses to my unbelief.” He soon earned the nickname “Holy Boy” among his fellow slaves. At the age of 22, after shepherding many sheep, Patrick escaped and traveled 200 miles to the coast of Ireland. Two years later, he returned to the arms of his parents who begged him to stay in England. However, he felt called by God to return to Ireland. Patrick's parents fiercely opposed his plans, convinced that the barbaric Druids were not worth saving. He shared Christ with his former slaveowner, preached at racetracks, and other places of worldly indulgences, seeing many come to Christ. However, this was not without opposition. The Druids often tried to poison him. One time a barbarian warrior speared Patrick's chariot driver to death in an attempt to kill Patrick. He was often ambushed at his evangelistic events and was enslaved again for a short time. In his book, Patrick wrote, “As every day arrives, I expect either sudden death or deception, or being taken back as a slave or some such other misfortune. But I fear none of these, since I look to the promise of heaven and have flung myself into the hands of the all-powerful God, who rules as Lord everywhere.” Patrick journeyed throughout Ireland, sharing Christ until his death on March 17, around the year 461 A.D. Romans 1:16 epitomized his life. “For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes.” Close And that's The Worldview on St. Patrick's Day, March 17th in the year of our Lord 2023. Subscribe by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. Or get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I'm Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.

Many young Christians feel a call to ministry, some a call to be a missionary. In this episode, I discuss this popular unction and the culture of American evangelical Christianity that produces it. The missional movement is a self-identified movement within the 21st century. While missional church just claim to be biblical, this is a much used argument made by evangelical to justify their latest pragmatic strategies - such as missional. I question the biblical fidelity of the missional movement and highlight common pitfalls for church planters. This missional movement also creates a heightened desire for Christian to be missionaries. Many young Christians in the church feel pressure to enter ministry or go overseas. Why does this happen? How do we deal with the fallout of missionaries leaving ministry if not the faith all together? Oftentimes the call to ministry is pitched as the most sacrificial thing a Christian can do. In teaching this way, leader often create unbiblical and unrealistic expectations. We need to have a deeper understanding of going to the nations so that we can better understand our calling to our own nation here. Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/chasedavis“How Should Christians Speak in Public?” Tim Keller - https://mereorthodoxy.com/how-should-christians-speak-in-public/#post-133708-footnote-1“Negative World Arrives in Australia” Simon Kennedy - https://mereorthodoxy.com/negative-world-australia/Support the showSign up for the Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/chasedavisFollow Full Proof Theology on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fullprooftheology/Follow Full Proof Theology on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/fullprooftheology/

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Robbie Patterson goes through how to take up your cross and follow Jesus.

Good morning Church! My name is Trent Houck, and it's my joy to be one of the Pastors here at FCBC. I want to invite you to turn in your Bibles to Colossians 3:1- 4 and have that open in front of you as we set this passage up. Here is my main point today: Jesus is the Focal Point of the Christian Life. Because Jesus is the focal point: God calls Christians to seek Christ, set the mind on Christ, and to see Christ. 1. Seek Christ (Colossians 3:1) 2. Set the Mind on Christ (Colossians 3:2-3) 3. See Christ (Colossians 3:4). Jesus saves us into a life of singular focus. Our argument today is set against the backdrop of the human condition. That is, living with multiple focal points. For example, we want flourishing families. So, we try to center our lives on family. We want flourishing bodies. So, we focus ourselves on happiness and health. We want financial stability. We want to be relieved of our stress. So, we adopt practices that minimize strain. We track our sleep, see a counselor, or become minimalists. Our hearts are crowded by the objects of desire. The more we want something, the more we focus on it. I want to begin this morning by asking a few simple questions: What do you want? What do you desire? What motivates your affections? What is the focus of your life? My argument this morning is that we want whatever it is that takes up the imaginative space of our hearts. It's what we think about when we have nothing else to think about. We want those things that we are sure to keep an eye on. We want those things to which we pay closest attention. Let me just illustrate this by the idea of a focal point. What is the focal point of this first image? The obvious answer is the single air balloon. Your eye is drawn to the center of this picture. You probably feel a sense of peace. The lake is serene and placid. The sky is monochromatic. The trees are all aligned. The horizon is linear. It's beautiful. This is what it's like to have a single focus. 2 However, if I show you a contrasting image. What is the focal point of this second image? The answer is debatable. There may be no focal point. Maybe it's the largest balloon. Maybe it's the nearest. Maybe it's the one in the center of the picture. Your eye moves around, rather than staying focused on a single point. You might feel a sense of stress, unease, or crowdedness. I am personally anxious about the balloons running into each other and seeing people fall from their wicker baskets. The Old Testament is a single story about competing focal points. God commands that his people "have no other gods before me", and he warns that those who construct idols, or take on false gods, become like them. This is not because God feels threatened, or wants to steal our joy, but precisely because he knows that he alone is the source of our highest joys. He proscribes a life of singularity. The Bible teaches that what we want, desire, or pursue eventually becomes the object of our affections. Our pleasures become our pressures. God knows that we are habitual creatures, and that whatever we take pleasure in becomes precious to us. This generation is characterized by the disembodied, absent presence of unchecked desires. We are walking zombies. If you were to ask a sociologist what this generation of people wanted more than anything, I think the sociologist's answer would be: "Everything and Nothing." We are a distracted people, holding hands with God, while engrossed in finding satisfaction in this world. We are everywhere and nowhere at once. Jesus addresses us as the Martha generation: "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary" (Luke 10:41-42). This is a dangerous way to live. Cal Newport warns that, "[If you] Spend enough time in a state of frenetic shallowness and you permanently reduce your capacity to perform deep [focused] work." This concept also applies to deep worship. Even Winnie the Pooh once 3 famously said, "Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart." Little things become focal points. So, what do you want? What is the focal point of your life? As a Pastor, I am constantly wrestling with multiple objects of desire. I want our church to be unified. I want ministries to be flourishing. I want to preach well. I want to write. I want to administrate. I want to persuade. I want friends. I want clarity and precision in my thinking. I want to read. I want to feel. I want my marriage to thrive. I want my kids to excel. I want to leave this place better than I found it. I want to be missed when I'm gone. Which of these will become the focus? Well, it depends on the time of day! The Christian life, however, is one of singular focus. We need to know, more than any other generation that we cannot have everything, do everything, experience everything, see everything, be everything, or maintain everything without losing something. Jesus famously said: 24 “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? (Matthew 16:24-26). Echoing Jesus, the American Missionary to Ecuador, Jim Elliot, once wrote, “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” And, C.T. Studd, once wrote, "Only one life, 'twill soon be past. Only what's done for Christ will last." Or, to quote our very own Steve Walker: "In 70 years, none of this will matter." What do you want? What is the focus of your life? The Christian can only be about one thing. To say with the Psalmist, 4 One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple (Psalm 27:4). Are you ready to be about one thing? Do you want to be about one thing? We are learning that the Colossians were quite like us. They were at a spiritual set of crossroads. They were being tempted to engage in an infinite number of distractions that would cloud their vision and affection for Jesus. Their one life was threatened and assailed by "...philosophy and empty deceit" (Col. 2:8). Their lives were judged on the basis of what they ate and drank and how they organized their liturgical calendar (Col. 2:16-19). So, they were tempted to submit to regulations that were "...of no value in stopping the flesh" (Col. 2:20-23). The pressures were mounting. In short, they were being given a set of metrics to measure their sense of assurance or spiritual fitness. They were being tempted to regress to the spiritual shallows of multiple focal points. The false teachers were whispering, 'You can have it all!'" They were beginning to slide down the slope of self-righteousness. 'Holiness is this way. Follow us to Christ." Paul, having furiously warned of the dangers of succumbing to this kind of frenetic and chaotic life, now demonstrates in all of chapter three what the Christian life ought to be focused on. And, we can say plainly, that it ought to be focused on Christ alone. Jesus Christ is the single and solitary focal point of the Christian life. There is only one thing that should really matter to the Christian: Jesus Christ. Jesus is enough. There is only one road and only one way. So, we must ask: Why do other focal points crowd out our gaze on Christ? Isn't it astounding to think that Christians, who have come to know Jesus Christ, to 5 love "the glory of God in the face of Jesus" (2 Cor. 4:6), to be filled in Christ (Col. 2:8-10), to be born again to a living hope (1 Peter 1:3), could ever grow distracted by other things? Paul certainly thought so as he wrote to the Galatians, "I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel…" (Galatians 1:6). Why does this happen? You might remember that last week David challenged us to reflect on why we make human-centered rules to maintain our sense of self-righteousness. He said, "The answers to the deeper 'why' questions will reveal a reward you are pursuing or a pain you're avoiding." We start making rules when we get our eyes off of Jesus. Why aren't we growing in Christ? Why are we discouraged, or stuck? Maybe the answer is that we've made our growth the focus of our gaze, instead of Jesus. We're still, in some small way, focused on ourselves! To our surprise, our relationship with God may be about us, and not God. Our Bible reading may have become a vendetta to get something from God, rather than be with God. The problem for the Colossians is the same problem for us. They were tempted to add to Jesus. Ever since the Garden of Eden, we get spiritually stuck when we add something to Jesus. The human-focused way to get unstuck is to adopt idols. New rules. But, that only deepens our ruts. Our hearts are 'idols factories' and ruleproducing. Jesus shows us a better way. God calls the Christian to seek Christ, Set the mind on Christ, and See Christ. 1. Seek Christ (Colossians 3:1) 2. Set the Mind on Christ (Colossians 3:2-3) 3. See Christ (Colossians 3:4). Heavenly Father, we come before you again and ask that you would magnify your name. We want to seek the one thing that really matters. Your words divide between soul and spirit, joint and marrow, and we would ask that you would use it 6 to cut through our defenses. Show us our disordered desires and the ways in which we are inclined to make something or someone else central to our lives. Jesus, thank you that you not only show us what it means to live with a singular focus, but for the joy set before you, you endured the Cross. Your perfect righteousness is now imputed to us by faith so that we stand before you righteous and not guilty. We can now stand before you totally focused on you alone. Holy Spirit, we ask that you would apply these truths directly to the areas of our hearts that we most need them today. Cause us to be open to your ministry, available to your Word, and attentive to your voice. Cause us to be able and willing to lay aside those things that are not central to our purpose in you. In Jesus' name, I pray, amen. First, the Christian is called to seek Christ. Paul writes, If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. The statement "If then you have been raised with Christ…" draws us back to the arguments that Paul was making in Colossians 2:8-15. He writes, "...you were raised with him[that is, Christ] through faith by the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead" (Col. 2:12). While in English, the conditional 'if' seems to indicate doubt, (i.e. if you really love me, you will do the dishes) in Greek, this is what is called a 'first class condition'. That is, something that is assumed for the sake of the argument. So, Paul is saying: "If [as it is the case that] you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is…" He is not contradicting what he said previously. He is showing a connection between the reality of our resurrected state and the command in the second part of the verse. Essentially, he is saying: because you were raised from the dead with Christ, you now exist in a new sphere. You have been transferred into a new dimension, a new kingdom. You are now participating in the new creation. The Kingdom has arrived in Jesus, and it is now being made evident through the work of the Holy Spirit. You have a new identity. A new self. 7 Resurrections happen as people believe the Gospel. We need to pause here and express a sense of wonder. When did this resurrection happen? Paul indicates that this is a past tense, completed action. You "have been raised with Christ." Furthermore, this is something that took place while we were in a state of deathly passivity. He wrote earlier in chapter 2 "When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ (Col. 2:13). Illustration: maybe you have personally witnessed the unresponsiveness of a dead body. They are cold to the touch, immovable, and no matter how loudly you might address the body, he or she would not respond. That is, unless God was speaking. Have you been raised? How would you know? The New Testament reframes the Old Testament idea of resurrection. If you read the gospels, the disciples are consistently confused about when the resurrection will happen. In Jewish tradition, resurrection only happens at the end of the age, if at all. The New Testament, however, teaches that there are different types of resurrection. In Luke 7, for example, the gospel writer shows a physical, material resurrection in the here and now: 11 Soon afterward, Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went along with him. 12 As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her. 13 When the Lord saw her, his heart went out to her and he said, “Don't cry.” 14 Then he went up and touched the bier they were carrying him on, and the bearers stood still. He said, “Young man, I say to you, get up!” 15 The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother. So, there you go: dead people can hear Jesus. That's why if any of you are spiritually dead in this room right now, the second that Jesus wants to, he can say, "Young man, or young woman, I say to you, get up!" 8 But, physical, material resurrection is not what Paul has in mind here. The resurrection that Paul has in mind is a resurrection with Christ. That is, the resurrection here is one that happens through faith. Paul writes, "...you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead" (Col. 2:12). Jesus died on the cross and was buried in the tomb. On the third day, Jesus was raised from the dead. When he was raised, Paul says, you were also raised! This outward, objective, historical reality becomes spiritually significant for you as you believe. It happens within you through faith. That is, the evidence of a spiritual resurrection is not physical, material change but spiritual alertness and responsiveness. Paul writes elsewhere, "So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ" (Romans 10:17). When Jesus speaks, those who have faith respond. This is describing what theologians call regeneration. That is, the new birth. When God speaks, he acts. And, as that action takes place, God calls into being something that was not previously there. God does not perform CPR on a nearly dead heart. He creates a new one. That is why Paul says that when you are buried with Christ and raised to walk in newness of life. You are a new creation in Christ Jesus. If you are a Christian, you are a walking miracle. This should never cease to amaze you! So, now that you are spiritually alive by the power of God, what are you supposed to be up to now? Paul says, If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. The Christian is called to be continually seeking the priorities of God's throne room. It is, as it were, that we continually rap on heaven's door. We are continually placing the priorities of Jesus on our calendars. One author writes, the things that 9 are above, "…include his[Jesus'] character, his presence, his heavenly joys. We are not to be seeking heavenly geography, but the One who dwells there.” Illustration: If you are familiar with the film Free Solo, you know that rock climber, Alex Honnold gives us a great example of this. The central aim of his life was to free solo El Capitan in Yosemite, CA: a 3,000 climb up sheer granite wall without a rope. To "seek" this mountain peak meant to daily, monthly, and yearly training, planning and preparation to scale this wall. Seeking this peak involved careful planning, meticulous placement of hands, feet, fitness, and food intake. The cost for failure was extremely high. El Capitan set the agenda. Alex Honnold conformed his life, his fitness, and his focus to El Capitan. In the same way the Christian's seeking the things that are above defines the Christian life. We are always climbing further up and further into the Person and Work of Christ. Do you have this kind of exalted picture of the living Christ? Jesus is glorious and unreachable, invisibly seated at the right hand of God. Underlying this text is Psalm 110:1, The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.” The Father says to the Son, "Take the throne." Hebrews also speaks of this throne room in this way: 3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4 having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs. (Hebrews 1:3-4). To sit down at the right hand of God is to take up the kingly residence that the whole Old Testament anticipates. It is the highest place. Jesus is preeminent. There is no higher place with which to be preoccupied. 10 To the Christian, this text is saying: "Do that which you most enjoy, and never stop doing it." Seek Christ continually. Set your eyes on Christ. For the new creature in Christ, this is not drudgery. But, it requires total focus and devotion. It is upward and onward. Sermon Illustration: Shasta Fetching Illustration: we are blessed with an Australian Shepherd, Black Labrador Retriever who doesn't need to be told to "continually fetch a tennis ball." It's part of his nature. In fact, it's baked into his name as a retriever. However, if something compelling comes along as a distraction, like a squirrel, he does need to be reminded! In the same way Paul is reminding the Colossians to 'seek Christ.' How does the Christian do this? If Christ is high and exalted like this, how do we reach up to where he is? Those questions lead to the second point. Second, Christians are called to set their minds on Christ. The Christian is called to make their new creation lives about seeking Christ, and conforming your life to Christ is regulated by setting the mind on Christ. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. Let me illustrate what this looks like first: Sermon Illustration 1: "Hold on!" Illustration: One of the keys to parenting is manufacturing fun things for your kids to do. We decided, when there was no snow, to take our kids sledding. One of the key commands in sledding is "Hold on!" Keep a tight grip on the sled. While my kids are clinging on for dear life, I am moving them forward. In the same way, the Christian advances in the Christian life by clinging to the cross, by keep our eyes fixed on the Gospel. Rather than advancing on the strength of our moral efforts, the Christian is pulled forward by the strength that the Spirit provides because we have already been seated as Sons and Daughters with Christ. 11 So, what does 'clinging' or 'setting' our minds on Christ look like? First, we need to be clear that the physiological brain and spiritual mind are not the same thing. When Jesus rebukes Peter for misunderstanding Jesus' purpose he says, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man” (Matthew 16:23). Jesus is not saying that Peter has made an intellectual error, though the intellect is a part of the mind. Jesus is not mainly saying, "You marked A instead of B; you failed the test!" He's saying, "The whole way you think about things is actually Satanic, Peter." Whoa. Your mind is framed with Satanic presuppositions. You don't have the right priorities. Further, when Paul uses this word in Philippians 2, "Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus," Paul is not saying: "Have a single brain" though surely he wanted them to think about things similarly. In this text: 1. This is the new, resurrection 'mind'. This is the mind that has been raised from the dead. The mind that responds in faith, trust, and hope. The mind that is unified to Christ by the Holy Spirit. This is the mind that is powered by the Gospel. This is your whole way of thinking now that you are alive in Christ. It's not just the brain. That's why our application can't just be "Memorize Scripture, read your Bible, or Say your prayers." Scripture memory ninjas might have strong brains, but weak minds. 2. This new mind is yours. When a person becomes a Christian, God does not rob them of agency. You are not made less yourself when you become a Christian, but a new self in Christ Jesus. Everything you do, and everything 12 you are is now in relationship to the living Christ. So, the new you has a unique mind. Your God-centered perspective is still yours. 3. This mind makes choices. It is possible for the new mind in Christ to either be fixated on things above or things that are on the earth, but not both at the same time. a. Illustration: A few years ago, due to some health issues, I began eating gluten-free. This involved a change of mind, or a change of heart. I left the world of pizza, pasta, and sourdough bread for a world of rice, meat, and salads. Once I had tasted and seen the new world of new energy, new emotional stability, I didn't want to go back. a. Application: by setting our minds on things above, we are going with the grain of our newly created selves. Sin, for the Christian, is actually a weariness, not a joy. Following Jesus, empowered by the Spirit is the gravitational pull toward Christ and not away from him. b. Connection: this is what is so silly about adding rules to Christ. We don't grow by making life harder on ourselves. We grow by taking on Christ's easy yoke. The truth is that being singularly focused is surprisingly way easier than having multiple foci. So Paul says, 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. So, what is this new hidden life like? Illustration: we play hide and seek quite a bit in my house. When Sam is "hidden with Damaris in the closet", they are usually pretty loud and easy to find. On the 13 other hand, if I go play hide and seek in the Boise National Forest, the tragic headline might read: "Man lost, hidden with dog in the forest." Verse 3 is perplexing. It requires us to exercise our imaginations. Paul says, "Set your minds [that is, the new mind that is united to Christ's mind] on things that are above…FOR [reason] you [that is, the old mind and heart that was crucified with Christ] have died, and your life [the totality of your new selfhood] is hidden [invisible] with Christ in God. One commentator writes, “…[Christians'] lives are now securely hidden with Christ in God and thus belong to the invisible realm. Their sphere of being, action, and enjoyment is therefore now totally different from that of their former situation.” So, setting your minds on what is above is the natural outflow of your new nature. Do you see what this means? If you are a Christian, you already live in heaven. Hebrews 12 puts it this way: 22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, 23 and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel. The Christian lives spiritually in the City of God. "Your life is hidden with Christ in God." So, your participation in the Kingdom of God is the natural outflow of your new citizenship in heaven. But, you might say, that's not mapping onto my experience. That leads us to our last point. 14 Third, are called to see Christ. Even though the Christian participates in all of this through faith now, they cannot yet see the things for which they hope. What we see is only partial. Though this is the true reality: "Your life is hidden with Christ in God," we live in the here and now where we are still learning how to put on our new selves. Hebrews puts it this way: 13 These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. 14 For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 15 If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city (Hebrews 11:13-16). However, even though we cannot see all this yet, we are assured of a promise in this next verse: 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. God has appointed a date for the return of Christ. It will certainly happen. As sure as we are that August 8th is coming, we can be sure that Christ will return. For the Christian, this is not a day to be fearful, but a day for which we long. This is good news for two reasons. First, Because Christ will appear, we will appear too. We need to rest assured that when he comes, we will see him. Whether we are living or dead, we will all see the living Christ when he comes. This is a moment planned in history. Illustration: The simultaneity, or singularity of this event is quite like when someone knocks on our door: the kids run to the door, the dog barks, the parents finish cleaning. It's a simultaneous event to which we all respond. We will not miss it! Second, Because Christ appears, we will appear in his glory. This verse is an invitation to meditate on heaven. 15 Activity: Look around you for a moment. How glorious does the person who is sitting next to you appear? Don't answer that. The truth is that if the person next to you is in Christ, they will one day be absolutely radiant. 1 John 3 says it this way, See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. 3 And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure (1 John 3:1-3). The Psalmist, anticipating this day says, As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness (Psalm 17:15). Romans 8:28-30 says, 28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good,[h] for those who are called according to his purpose. 29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified. Would you like to spend 30 minutes in heaven? Ladies and gentlemen, through faith you just did! One day, our faith will be sight. And, we will finally realize that our time in the Word, our fellowship with one another, our worship in this place was closest we ever came to heaven in this mortal life. To close, in C.S. Lewis' The Weight of Glory, he writes, “It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light 16 of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.” In 100 years, when this generation is dead and gone, what will really matter is Christ. He is, therefore, the only single focal point worth living for. Let us live for him! Let's be rooted in him. Summary: God calls Christians to seek Christ, set the mind on Christ, and to see Christ. 1. Seek Christ (Colossians 3:1) 2. Set the Mind on Christ (Colossians 3:2-3) 3. See Christ (Colossians 3:4). Because Jesus alone sought things above, set his mind on things above, he fulfilled the law. But for our sake he was treated as someone who failed to seek what is above, and to set his mind on things above, so that by his death, burial and resurrection, we might be counted as righteous before God. When he was raised, our justification, sanctification, and glorification were all assured by Christ. So, we are safe with Christ in God. This is good news! 1. Make a List. List your identities and rank them in order of their importance to you. How could the Gospel be applied to each identity? How would the Lord re-rank them? 2. Give. Give something [material, talent, time] away this week that takes your focus off of Christ. Instead of engaging with a distraction, pray. 3. Memorize. Memorize Colossians 3:1-4. Post it somewhere in your home. 4. Read. Read Richard Chin's Book Captivated by Christ with a few people in your Life Group. 17 5. Calendar. Schedule 30-45 minutes each day to read your Bible and pray. Instead of just checking the box: ask the Lord to increase your delight in Him. Focus on Jesus in your reading. 6. Teach. Teach some of the concepts in this text to your kids. Play hide and seek and explain how our true lives are invisible to us, but will be visible one day. Hide in a particularly hard spot and explain that the tension we feel when we can't find a person is a lot like when we can't see Christ right away. Even in the hard times, we can be assured that we will see him. 7. Purge. Sift through your possessions. Ask "Does this matter to Jesus? Or, just to me?" Give or throw away things that are distracting. 8. Plan and re-prioritize. If you knew the date of Jesus' return, or the endpoint of your life, what would take up time in your near-term schedule? 9. Pray and share the Gospel with someone using this resource. https://twowaystolive.com/ 10.Think Deeply. Watch Tim Keller and John Piper discuss the nature of sanctification. Why are we so inclined toward distractions? How can this happen? I think the answer has something to do the cross pressures that assail our identity. For example, by my count I have at least ten identities: I am a 1. Human Being 2. Christian 3. Husband 4. Father 5. Son 6. Brother (friend) 7. Pastor 8. Citizen of the US 9. Suburbanite (i.e. home owner, pet owner, car owner, etc.) 10.Student I would argue that we grow distracted because we can't keep our desires or our identities in proper order in relation to Christ. For me to grow in Christ, the Gospel must be applied to all ten of my competing identities. Everything must be seen in relationship to the single focal point. If you have to balance all these 18 identities, you can see why it might feel necessary to make rules and regulations to keep yourself in order! Sin splits our identities and disorders our priorities. Why is the human heart so inclined toward stagnation? The answer is: We get distracted by multiple focal points. We lose track of ultimate, eternal goals. We age. We grow accustomed to our shortcomings. We leave problems unaddressed. We settle into our self-knowledge, and we begin to repudiate change. We fall into ruts. We begin to make it about us. In short, we get our eyes off of Jesus. Illustration: My wife Lauren has planted sunflowers for the past two years in our backyard. They are now over 10 ft. tall. Imagine one day if I walked out into the backyard and said, "Lauren, why isn't this sunflower growing?" She would respond, "It is." "Oh," I might say, "I can't see it." Precisely. Our Christian growth cannot be measured in daily metrics, experiences, or moments but over a lifetime. In fact, in most cases, we cannot see it. The human tendency to measure things can only give an account for what's happening on the human plane. So, when it comes to spiritual growth (i.e. how much is your soul being stretched right now?), we can't answer those questions, except through the revealed word of God. The ultimate answer to this "Why?" questions are found just inside the gates of the Garden of Eden. In Genesis 3, Eve took of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge good and evil, which Adam had been commanded not to eat from "...and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate" (Genesis 3:6). Later, God's curse is grounded on the fact that "...You[Adam] listened to the voice of your wife…", implying that Adam had failed to listen to the one voice that truly mattered: God's voice. His gaze was distracted. He failed to stay focused. He took on two focal points: obedience to God and Eve. Jesus shows us a better way than Adam. John Piper writes that sin is to fail to recognize the centrality of God to our identity. He says that sin is, ● The glory of God not honored. 19 ● The holiness of God not reverenced. ● The greatness of God not admired. ● The power of God not praised. ● The truth of God not sought. ● The wisdom of God not esteemed. ● The beauty of God not treasured. ● The goodness of God not savored. ● The faithfulness of God not trusted. ● The promises of God not believed. ● The commandments of God not obeyed. ● The justice of God not respected. ● The wrath of God not feared. ● The grace of God not cherished. ● The presence of God not prized. ● The person of God not loved. The answers to the why questions of our rule making, the pressures of our responsibilities and identities reveal that our hearts are 'idols factories.' Why is the human heart so inclined toward stagnation? The answer is: We get distracted by multiple focal points. We lose track of ultimate, eternal goals. We age. We grow accustomed to our shortcomings. We leave problems unaddressed. We settle into our self-knowledge, and we begin to repudiate change. We fall into ruts. We begin to make it about us. In short, we get our eyes off of Jesus. The ultimate answer to this "Why?" questions are found just inside the gates of the Garden of Eden. In Genesis 3, Eve took of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge good and evil, which Adam had been commanded not to eat from "...and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate" (Genesis 3:6). Later, God's curse is grounded on the fact that "...You[Adam] listened to the voice of your wife…", implying that Adam had failed to listen to the one voice that truly mattered: God's voice. His gaze was distracted. He failed to stay focused. He took on two focal points: obedience to God and Eve. Jesus shows us a better way than Adam. God is calling us today to seek Christ, set our minds on Christ, and to see Christ. This is the key to reordering our lives around God and the Gospel, and not ourselves or our multiple identities.

Joseph W. Ho's book Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China (Cornell University Press, 2021) offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space―tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years of the People's Republic of China. When American Protestant and Catholic missionaries entered interwar China, they did so with cameras in hand. Missions principally aimed at the conversion of souls and the modernization of East Asia, became, by virtue of the still and moving images recorded, quasi-anthropological ventures that shaped popular understandings of and formal foreign policy toward China. Portable photographic technologies changed the very nature of missionary experience, while images that missionaries circulated between China and the United States affected cross-cultural encounters in times of peace and war. Ho illuminates the centrality of visual practices in the American missionary enterprise in modern China, even as intersecting modernities and changing Sino-US relations radically transformed lives behind and in front of those lenses. In doing so, Developing Mission reconstructs the almost-lost histories of transnational image makers, subjects, and viewers across twentieth-century China and the United States. Dr. Joseph W. Ho is Assistant Professor of History at Albion College and Center Associate at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. In addition to his current book, Dr. Ho is the coeditor of War and Occupation in China: The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937-1938. Linshan Jiang is Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests are modern and contemporary literature, film, and popular culture in mainland China, Taiwan and Japan; trauma and memory studies; gender and sexuality studies; queer studies; as well as comparative literature and translation studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joseph W. Ho's book Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China (Cornell University Press, 2021) offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space―tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years of the People's Republic of China. When American Protestant and Catholic missionaries entered interwar China, they did so with cameras in hand. Missions principally aimed at the conversion of souls and the modernization of East Asia, became, by virtue of the still and moving images recorded, quasi-anthropological ventures that shaped popular understandings of and formal foreign policy toward China. Portable photographic technologies changed the very nature of missionary experience, while images that missionaries circulated between China and the United States affected cross-cultural encounters in times of peace and war. Ho illuminates the centrality of visual practices in the American missionary enterprise in modern China, even as intersecting modernities and changing Sino-US relations radically transformed lives behind and in front of those lenses. In doing so, Developing Mission reconstructs the almost-lost histories of transnational image makers, subjects, and viewers across twentieth-century China and the United States. Dr. Joseph W. Ho is Assistant Professor of History at Albion College and Center Associate at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. In addition to his current book, Dr. Ho is the coeditor of War and Occupation in China: The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937-1938. Linshan Jiang is Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests are modern and contemporary literature, film, and popular culture in mainland China, Taiwan and Japan; trauma and memory studies; gender and sexuality studies; queer studies; as well as comparative literature and translation studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joseph W. Ho's book Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China (Cornell University Press, 2021) offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space―tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years of the People's Republic of China. When American Protestant and Catholic missionaries entered interwar China, they did so with cameras in hand. Missions principally aimed at the conversion of souls and the modernization of East Asia, became, by virtue of the still and moving images recorded, quasi-anthropological ventures that shaped popular understandings of and formal foreign policy toward China. Portable photographic technologies changed the very nature of missionary experience, while images that missionaries circulated between China and the United States affected cross-cultural encounters in times of peace and war. Ho illuminates the centrality of visual practices in the American missionary enterprise in modern China, even as intersecting modernities and changing Sino-US relations radically transformed lives behind and in front of those lenses. In doing so, Developing Mission reconstructs the almost-lost histories of transnational image makers, subjects, and viewers across twentieth-century China and the United States. Dr. Joseph W. Ho is Assistant Professor of History at Albion College and Center Associate at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. In addition to his current book, Dr. Ho is the coeditor of War and Occupation in China: The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937-1938. Linshan Jiang is Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests are modern and contemporary literature, film, and popular culture in mainland China, Taiwan and Japan; trauma and memory studies; gender and sexuality studies; queer studies; as well as comparative literature and translation studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/photography

Joseph W. Ho's book Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China (Cornell University Press, 2021) offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space―tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years of the People's Republic of China. When American Protestant and Catholic missionaries entered interwar China, they did so with cameras in hand. Missions principally aimed at the conversion of souls and the modernization of East Asia, became, by virtue of the still and moving images recorded, quasi-anthropological ventures that shaped popular understandings of and formal foreign policy toward China. Portable photographic technologies changed the very nature of missionary experience, while images that missionaries circulated between China and the United States affected cross-cultural encounters in times of peace and war. Ho illuminates the centrality of visual practices in the American missionary enterprise in modern China, even as intersecting modernities and changing Sino-US relations radically transformed lives behind and in front of those lenses. In doing so, Developing Mission reconstructs the almost-lost histories of transnational image makers, subjects, and viewers across twentieth-century China and the United States. Dr. Joseph W. Ho is Assistant Professor of History at Albion College and Center Associate at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. In addition to his current book, Dr. Ho is the coeditor of War and Occupation in China: The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937-1938. Linshan Jiang is Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests are modern and contemporary literature, film, and popular culture in mainland China, Taiwan and Japan; trauma and memory studies; gender and sexuality studies; queer studies; as well as comparative literature and translation studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/christian-studies

Joseph W. Ho's book Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China (Cornell University Press, 2021) offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space―tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years of the People's Republic of China. When American Protestant and Catholic missionaries entered interwar China, they did so with cameras in hand. Missions principally aimed at the conversion of souls and the modernization of East Asia, became, by virtue of the still and moving images recorded, quasi-anthropological ventures that shaped popular understandings of and formal foreign policy toward China. Portable photographic technologies changed the very nature of missionary experience, while images that missionaries circulated between China and the United States affected cross-cultural encounters in times of peace and war. Ho illuminates the centrality of visual practices in the American missionary enterprise in modern China, even as intersecting modernities and changing Sino-US relations radically transformed lives behind and in front of those lenses. In doing so, Developing Mission reconstructs the almost-lost histories of transnational image makers, subjects, and viewers across twentieth-century China and the United States. Dr. Joseph W. Ho is Assistant Professor of History at Albion College and Center Associate at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. In addition to his current book, Dr. Ho is the coeditor of War and Occupation in China: The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937-1938. Linshan Jiang is Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests are modern and contemporary literature, film, and popular culture in mainland China, Taiwan and Japan; trauma and memory studies; gender and sexuality studies; queer studies; as well as comparative literature and translation studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joseph W. Ho's book Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China (Cornell University Press, 2021) offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space―tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years of the People's Republic of China. When American Protestant and Catholic missionaries entered interwar China, they did so with cameras in hand. Missions principally aimed at the conversion of souls and the modernization of East Asia, became, by virtue of the still and moving images recorded, quasi-anthropological ventures that shaped popular understandings of and formal foreign policy toward China. Portable photographic technologies changed the very nature of missionary experience, while images that missionaries circulated between China and the United States affected cross-cultural encounters in times of peace and war. Ho illuminates the centrality of visual practices in the American missionary enterprise in modern China, even as intersecting modernities and changing Sino-US relations radically transformed lives behind and in front of those lenses. In doing so, Developing Mission reconstructs the almost-lost histories of transnational image makers, subjects, and viewers across twentieth-century China and the United States. Dr. Joseph W. Ho is Assistant Professor of History at Albion College and Center Associate at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. In addition to his current book, Dr. Ho is the coeditor of War and Occupation in China: The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937-1938. Linshan Jiang is Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests are modern and contemporary literature, film, and popular culture in mainland China, Taiwan and Japan; trauma and memory studies; gender and sexuality studies; queer studies; as well as comparative literature and translation studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/chinese-studies

Joseph W. Ho's book Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China (Cornell University Press, 2021) offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space―tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years of the People's Republic of China. When American Protestant and Catholic missionaries entered interwar China, they did so with cameras in hand. Missions principally aimed at the conversion of souls and the modernization of East Asia, became, by virtue of the still and moving images recorded, quasi-anthropological ventures that shaped popular understandings of and formal foreign policy toward China. Portable photographic technologies changed the very nature of missionary experience, while images that missionaries circulated between China and the United States affected cross-cultural encounters in times of peace and war. Ho illuminates the centrality of visual practices in the American missionary enterprise in modern China, even as intersecting modernities and changing Sino-US relations radically transformed lives behind and in front of those lenses. In doing so, Developing Mission reconstructs the almost-lost histories of transnational image makers, subjects, and viewers across twentieth-century China and the United States. Dr. Joseph W. Ho is Assistant Professor of History at Albion College and Center Associate at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. In addition to his current book, Dr. Ho is the coeditor of War and Occupation in China: The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937-1938. Linshan Jiang is Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests are modern and contemporary literature, film, and popular culture in mainland China, Taiwan and Japan; trauma and memory studies; gender and sexuality studies; queer studies; as well as comparative literature and translation studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/film

Joseph W. Ho's book Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China (Cornell University Press, 2021) offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space―tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years of the People's Republic of China. When American Protestant and Catholic missionaries entered interwar China, they did so with cameras in hand. Missions principally aimed at the conversion of souls and the modernization of East Asia, became, by virtue of the still and moving images recorded, quasi-anthropological ventures that shaped popular understandings of and formal foreign policy toward China. Portable photographic technologies changed the very nature of missionary experience, while images that missionaries circulated between China and the United States affected cross-cultural encounters in times of peace and war. Ho illuminates the centrality of visual practices in the American missionary enterprise in modern China, even as intersecting modernities and changing Sino-US relations radically transformed lives behind and in front of those lenses. In doing so, Developing Mission reconstructs the almost-lost histories of transnational image makers, subjects, and viewers across twentieth-century China and the United States. Dr. Joseph W. Ho is Assistant Professor of History at Albion College and Center Associate at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. In addition to his current book, Dr. Ho is the coeditor of War and Occupation in China: The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937-1938. Linshan Jiang is Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests are modern and contemporary literature, film, and popular culture in mainland China, Taiwan and Japan; trauma and memory studies; gender and sexuality studies; queer studies; as well as comparative literature and translation studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Joseph W. Ho's book Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China (Cornell University Press, 2021) offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space―tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years of the People's Republic of China. When American Protestant and Catholic missionaries entered interwar China, they did so with cameras in hand. Missions principally aimed at the conversion of souls and the modernization of East Asia, became, by virtue of the still and moving images recorded, quasi-anthropological ventures that shaped popular understandings of and formal foreign policy toward China. Portable photographic technologies changed the very nature of missionary experience, while images that missionaries circulated between China and the United States affected cross-cultural encounters in times of peace and war. Ho illuminates the centrality of visual practices in the American missionary enterprise in modern China, even as intersecting modernities and changing Sino-US relations radically transformed lives behind and in front of those lenses. In doing so, Developing Mission reconstructs the almost-lost histories of transnational image makers, subjects, and viewers across twentieth-century China and the United States. Dr. Joseph W. Ho is Assistant Professor of History at Albion College and Center Associate at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. In addition to his current book, Dr. Ho is the coeditor of War and Occupation in China: The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937-1938. Linshan Jiang is Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests are modern and contemporary literature, film, and popular culture in mainland China, Taiwan and Japan; trauma and memory studies; gender and sexuality studies; queer studies; as well as comparative literature and translation studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/east-asian-studies

Joseph W. Ho's book Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China (Cornell University Press, 2021) offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space―tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years of the People's Republic of China. When American Protestant and Catholic missionaries entered interwar China, they did so with cameras in hand. Missions principally aimed at the conversion of souls and the modernization of East Asia, became, by virtue of the still and moving images recorded, quasi-anthropological ventures that shaped popular understandings of and formal foreign policy toward China. Portable photographic technologies changed the very nature of missionary experience, while images that missionaries circulated between China and the United States affected cross-cultural encounters in times of peace and war. Ho illuminates the centrality of visual practices in the American missionary enterprise in modern China, even as intersecting modernities and changing Sino-US relations radically transformed lives behind and in front of those lenses. In doing so, Developing Mission reconstructs the almost-lost histories of transnational image makers, subjects, and viewers across twentieth-century China and the United States. Dr. Joseph W. Ho is Assistant Professor of History at Albion College and Center Associate at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. In addition to his current book, Dr. Ho is the coeditor of War and Occupation in China: The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937-1938. Linshan Jiang is Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests are modern and contemporary literature, film, and popular culture in mainland China, Taiwan and Japan; trauma and memory studies; gender and sexuality studies; queer studies; as well as comparative literature and translation studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

American missionary abducted in Haiti sent desperate WhatsApp message: report The group was reportedly kidnapped by the "400 Mawozo" gang, which controls the town where the missionaries were abducted. AP One of the 17 missionaries kidnapped in Haiti on Saturday sent a harrowing cry for help on WhatsApp as the group of 16 Americans and one Canadian were being abducted, according to a report. “Please pray for us!! We are being held hostage, they kidnapped our driver. Pray pray pray. We don't know where they are taking us,” group message said, according to a report in the Washington Post. The terrifying message came as the group — which includes adult missionaries as well as their children — was being taken from a bus bound for the airport in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, according to reports. Gangs have been accused of kidnapping schoolchildren, doctors, police officers, busloads of passengers and others. Christian Aid Ministries The bus full of missionaries — including children — was reportedly headed to Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince. AFP via Getty Images Haiti has faced upheaval since President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated by gunmen in his home in July, a case that has yet to be solved by local law enforcement. The missionary group was kidnapped by the “400 Mawozo” gang, which controls the town where the missionaries were abducted, and is known both for targeting religious groups and mass kidnappings, the Washington Post said. Gangs have been accused of kidnapping schoolchildren, doctors, police officers, busloads of passengers and others as they grow more powerful. In April, 400 Mawozo kidnapped five priests and two nuns, a move that prompted a three-day protest. At least 328 kidnapping victims were reported to Haiti's National Police in the first eight months of 2021. AFP via Getty Images Haiti has faced political turmoil since July, when President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated. AP The group includes adult missionaries as well as their children. AP At least 328 kidnapping victims were reported to Haiti's National Police in the first eight months of 2021, compared with a total of 234 for all of 2020, according to a report issued last month by the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti known as BINUH. With Post wires https://nypost.com/2021/10/17/us-missionary-abducted-in-haiti-sent-desperate-whatsapp-message/

The G-boys of Creepsilog, Glenn and Gideon, join Angie and Dandan to tell the story of American Missionary, John Allen Chau, who fell to his death, after imploring the aid of 5 fishermen to bring him to the Sentinel Island, in his pursuit to spread "the good news". --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/godlesslongganisa/message

Henrietta was passionate, determined, and burdened for the lost long before she entered the mission field with her husband, Jehu Lewis Shuck. She is an excellent example of Christian wisdom and commitment, as well as what a personal relationship with Jesus Christ can look like.

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Justin Holden, an American Missionary in Czech Republic speaks on this Palm Sunday Service on "Jesus Forgives"

QUOTES FOR REFLECTION “Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.” ~David Brainerd (1718-1747), American Missionary to the Delaware Indians “There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.” ~From Pilgrim's Progress, written by John Bunyan (1628-1688), Puritan minister “Give me your presence or give me death One is, without the other anyway From your lips may I feel the Spirits breath Let this be the dawning of a different day” ~Apollus, contemporary Scottish poet “In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails.” ~Augustine (354-430), theologian and Bishop in Algeria “The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.” ~C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), Author and Professor of English SERMON PASSAGE Haggai 2:1-9, Ezra 3:11b-13 (ESV) Haggai 2 1 In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet: 2 “Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, and say, 3 ‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes? 4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, declares the LORD. Be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land, declares the LORD. Work, for I am with you, declares the LORD of hosts, 5 according to the covenant that I made with you when you came out of Egypt. My Spirit remains in your midst. Fear not. 6 For thus says the LORD of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land. 7 And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts. 8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the LORD of hosts. 9 The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the LORD of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, declares the LORD of hosts.'” Ezra 3 11 …And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid. 12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' houses, old men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted aloud for joy, 13 so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people's weeping, for the people shouted with a great shout, and the sound was heard far away.

Born into slavery, George Liele is credited as being the first African-American missionary and Baptist missionary in the modern missionary movement. So why haven't we heard his story? Dr. Jason Duesing, missions advocate and academic Provost and Associate Professor of Historical Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, explains. Duesing serves as a research fellow for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, academic editor of the Midwestern Journal of Theology, and general editor for For the Church resources. He is also a member of the Evangelical Theological Society, where he currently serves on the Nominations Committee and the review board for the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. The most offensive thing about him is that he is a Yankees fan. Duesing is married to Kalee, and together they 4 children. Visit his personal site and follow him on Twitter. You can hear our previous episode with Jason here. Want to ask a question or suggest a topic? Email alex@missionspodcast.com. The Missions Podcast is powered by ABWE International and the Global Gospel Fund. This episode is also sponsored by Radius International, Fusion, and Evangelical Council for Abuse Prevention. Abuse Prevention National Conference 2021 attendees: use promo code ABWE21 to receive 20% off your registration.

Born into slavery, George Liele is credited as being the first African-American missionary and Baptist missionary in the modern missionary movement. So why haven't we heard his story? Dr. Jason Duesing, missions advocate and academic Provost and Associate Professor of Historical Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, explains. Duesing serves as a research fellow for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, academic editor of the Midwestern Journal of Theology, and general editor for For the Church resources. He is also a member of the Evangelical Theological Society, where he currently serves on the Nominations Committee and the review board for the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. The most offensive thing about him is that he is a Yankees fan. Duesing is married to Kalee, and together they 4 children. Visit his personal site and follow him on Twitter. You can hear our previous episode with Jason here. Want to ask a question or suggest a topic? Email alex@missionspodstg.wpengine.com. The Missions Podcast is powered by ABWE International and the Global Gospel Fund. This episode is also sponsored by Radius International, Fusion, and Evangelical Council for Abuse Prevention. Abuse Prevention National Conference 2021 attendees: use promo code ABWE21 to receive 20% off your registration.

The verse for this devotional comes from Psalm 73:26Would you like to know if Heaven is your home when you leave this world?Find out: https://www.gracebaptistchurch.ca/heavenYou can also find our audio podcast on:Castbox: https://castbox.fm/channel/id3758666Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5DeI1tGMjjVy7gcGlNMY5NGoogle Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL3Jzcy5jYXN0Ym94LmZtL2V2ZXJlc3QvYThiOTQ2ZjVjNGRlNDk4ZDljOWU1ZTdmMjZjZDEyYmMueG1sApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/morning-by-morning-the-gbc-podcast/id1551834042Follow us on:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GraceBCSurreyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/eventsgbc/Twitter: https://twitter.com/events_grace

On The Judge Show today: -          Today is Election Day!-          Dr. Birx boldly contradicts president on COVID-          ‘Peaceful' Islamic terrorist kills 4, injures 15 others in Vienna at Synagogue-          It's official, Baby Shark is the most annoying and watched video on the planet – more than 7 billion views-          Hurricane Eta is a dangerous Cat 4 that could threaten Florida according to latest predictions-          Epstein's Palm Beach mansion to be demolished-          Russian sausage king killed with crossbow in sauna-          NCL cancels all cruises through 2020-          Cuba arrests pastor for livestreaming state's demolition of his church-          What's right with America:o   U.S. Navy SEALS rescue American missionary in Niger who had been taken hostageo   NY church helps local businesses by feeding the hungry-          Bible study:  Genesis 8Remember: If you feel like you've lost hope, the most common command in the Bible is “Do not be afraid.” And, that doesn't even include fear not, and do not fear. Psalm 118:24 This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it!

Part 1 takes a look at Lance’s personal story, what led him to be a YWAM base leader in Ukraine and what his day to day life looks like. Part 2 goes into Lance’s observations and thoughts on Ukraine , Russia and the United States. What it’s like to live as an American in a former communist nation and what’s it like to experience the Culture of the United Sates after living abroad for extended periods of time.

An American missionary says God gave her a dream to open a center for malnourished children in Uganda. But now Ugandan mothers are suing this woman for impersonating a medical doctor after their children died in her care. Learn more in this report from host Taylor Berglund.

Galen Poor and Joshua Tan interview Joseph Ho about his intersecting interests in the modern history of Christianity in China and the history of photography. Learn about cultural encounters between Americans and China in the early twentieth century, the unique position of American missionaries in early twentieth century China, the history of photography and film-making in China, and how photographs and other visual materials are a rich and unique archival source to do history. Joseph Ho is an Assistant Professor of History at Albion College. He completed his PhD in history from the University of Michigan in 2017. Ho is the co-editor of War and Occupation in China: The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937-1938.

During the month of March the podcasts are centered around Missions and Missionaries. Today's podcast is about the American Missionary, Adoniram Judson, who served the Lord in Burma for nearly 40 years. To learn more about this man you can view my other content contained in the links below. Follow me on Instagram @traveladventureswithaimee – https://www.instagram.com/traveladventureswithaimee/ Look for me on YouTube under Travel Adventures with Aimee or by clicking the link below – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLShCRuPNj20RTAGd-h7Nmg?view_as=subscriber View my blog/website! https://tawithaimee.wordpress.com/

1. Why was American Missionary Killed By Remote Tribe In India? 2. Pro-Life Group Lists Two Dozen Companies That Fund Planned Parenthood 3. White House Petition: Seat Alex Jones Next To Jim Acosta In Brady Briefing Room (c) 2018, Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD. Airs on NRB TV, Direct TV Ch.378, Roku, Amazon FireTV, AndroidTV, GoogleTV, Smart TV, iTunes and www.PrayInJesusName.org

It's the #SilverJubilee or a Seafood Jamboree. The 25th installment of #TBKoW. In this Special Edition Episode we have our resident Asian Expert, "The Canasian" Ying, here with various Asian foods for the #GoodBrothers to try. Essentially the Good Brothers have ourselves a regular #MukBang. We also rely on the input of Uncle Ole's friend Matt in order to break any ties regarding the taste of the foods. Get ready for a proverbial treat cause some of these foods are quite skeptical. We also discuss some interesting tidbits made by Elon Musk regarding the Model 3 Production Hell, an update on the Juul/E-Cig bans coming to the U.S., an asteroid that may or may not roast the world in the next hundred years, and we go over the known details of an American Missionary killed by the Sentinelese Tribe, the last pre-Neolithic tribe left in the world. Sponsors this week include Sam '76 by Samuel Adams and Voodoo Ranger IPA by New Belgium Brewing. Follow Us on Instagram and Soundcloud and Like Us on Facebook. Also Subscribe to our Podcast and drop a comment in your preferred podcasting app.

In this episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki discuss segregation academies, the death of an American missionary, and the declining market share of lingerie giant Victoria’s Secret. Support Past Present on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pastpresentpodcast Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show:  Mississippi Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith, who is in a runoff contest to hold on to her Senate seat, sparked backlash when she made an offhand comment about a “public hanging” that many perceived as racist. The fact that Hyde-Smith attended a “segregation academy,” as reported by this Jackson Free Press article Natalia recommended, shed important light on how she developed such a worldview. Last week, American missionary John Allen Chau was killed when he traveled to the remote island of North Sentinel. Niki recommended this viral thread by Twitter user @RespectableLaw on the historical context for the hostility of the Sentinelese to outsiders. Neil discussed the case of evangelical Jim Elliot, who was killed on a mission in Ecuador. Natalia recommended Sadatru Sen’s book, Disciplining Punishment: Colonialism and Convict Society in the Andaman Islands and Jonathan Zimmerman’s Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century. Lingerie giant Victoria’s Secret is losing market share, and CMO Ed Razek hasn’t been shy about disdaining new upstarts like Third Love. Natalia cited this Slate article about the founding of Victoria’s Secret to cater to men’s shopping needs. Natalia also recommended Elizabeth Matelski’s Reducing Bodies: Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America and this episode of the Sexing History podcast about “sweater girls.”    In our regular closing feature, What’s Making History: Natalia discussed the new movie Ralph Breaks the Internet. Neil recommended Natalie Escobar’s Atlantic article, “The Changing Ways Parents React to Their Kids Coming Out of the Closet.” Niki shared Joe Pinsker’s Atlantic article, “The 30-Year Reign of Lunchables.”

An American Missionary was killed on the North Sentinel Island in India by a violent, isolated tribe while he was trying to preach the Gospel. Many "Christians' have criticized his motives and actions for trying to reach a people who didn't want to be reached.

Happy Cyber Monday! What's the point with personal privacy, a new European army, China's NEW Social credit system and the American Missionary killed in the Andaman Islands off India. Tune in. Listen, share! Thanks for listening

This is a story about persecuted missionaries. Just days after Turkey released American pastor Andrew Brunson, the country arrested another American missionary. Listen to find out why Turkey arrested  David Byle.

This is a story about actress and producer Roma Downey asking for intercession for an American missionary. That missionary is none other than imprisoned pastor Andrew Brunson. Hear what other prominent Christians are saying.

Phyllis Sorter was called by God to enter into the mission field in Nigeria, but she didn't envision the kidnapping, ransom, witch doctors lair, and harrowing adventure that followed... www.westmorrisfm.org/embrace-all for the Embrace All Conference www.fmchr.ch/startingstrong for Starting Strong 2018 Watch the TED talk by Allan Savory: https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world_s_deserts_and_reverse_climate_change/transcript?language=en Buy Phyllis' book and read the full story: http://fmcusa.org/bookstore/product/kidnapped/ Keep up to date on Phyllis' work in Nigeria: www.phyllis-sorter-schools-for-africa.org Please email or call Josh if you are willing to pledge towards a GC19 FMC Radio Booth! josh@befreemc.org or 234-759-9042 Leave a voicemail for the show by calling: (914) FMC-USA1 Please like the show page at www.facebook.com/fmcradio and follow us on Twitter @FmcRadioShow Email Josh: josh@befreemc.org

Robert McMullen was working as a Presbyterian missionary in eastern China when Japan invaded the country in 1937. His letters describing the chaotic period that followed are presented in a new book by Charles Bright and Joseph Ho. Its title is War and Occupation in China: The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937-1938. I ask Bright and Ho about their book in this episode. We discuss the goals and methods of American Protestant missionaries in modern China, with a special focus on McMullen’s career. Then we explore McMullen’s attempts to mediate between the Chinese residents of Hangzhou and the occupying Japanese forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Last, we touch on some contemporary topics raised by McMullen’s experience, including public memory of Christian missions in China and the ingredients necessary for religious communication between cultures. Theme song composed by Brian Brill. Additional music from audionautix.com, the U.S. Army Band, and Hymnary.org.

The American Missionary Association founded more than 500 schools and HBCU’s for the education of Afro Americans. Also championed racial equality and the abolishment of slavery --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/EverydayBlackHistory/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/EverydayBlackHistory/support

Topics: -An over the phone testimony from a National church planter in Cambodia. -An American Missionary talks about his time church planting in Malawi Africa. -A special song sung by Christian orphans in Myanmar. To learn more visit http://www.finalfrontiers.world

THE APOSTLE Jesus Christ saved and simultaneously baptized Apostle Dr. PrincellaF. Johnson with the Holy Ghost as a teenager in 1982. Today, withover 32 years' time in Christian service, Apostle Prince is still a fiery,Holy Spirit-filled, worshipper of her Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Sheis the faithful wife of Pastor Elder Maurice E. Johnson, mother of threeand grandmother to one.Christ has helped Apostle Prince impact the lives of thousandsthrough television, radio, and the Internet. She is a much sought outspeaker and workshop facilitator known for her deliverance ministry andprophetically-styled, repentance-inducing preaching of the Gospel. She isExecutive Producer and Host of “Repent Now! TV”, a weekly broadcast aired on WTVZ 33 andCox Cable in Hampton Roads and Eastern, Virginia as well as North Carolina. Apostle Prince isdriven by mercy and compassion for those lost and without Christ, as her ministry especiallytouches those impacted by drug addiction, incarceration, fatherlessness, mental illness, teenpregnancy and HIV/AIDS. God has used Dr. Johnson to heal and deliver many from variousmental, physical illnesses and chemical addictions, like heart disease, alcohol and cocaineaddiction. She has been honored by various organizations and government officials for her workin our communities. She was sent by God to minister to the “least of these.”Dr. Johnson has been used by The Master to serve the nations of South Africa,Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe. As a 4-year Global Missions Director/Executive DirectorMissionary to the “motherland,” she spearheaded farming, hunger relief projects and educationalscholarship campaigns to ensure that hundreds of children in Africa obtain a quality education.WÜA cÜ|ÇvxÄÄt YA ]É{ÇáÉÇ WÜA cÜ|ÇvxÄÄt YA ]É{ÇáÉÇFounding Apostle, The Master's House Church As an American Missionary, she has brought forth spiritual sons and daughters committedto Christ and personal purity as founder and dean of Heart to Heart Mini-College for Singles.Apostle Prince, has tirelessly worked to reduce teen pregnancy and bring quality mentoringprograms to Hampton Roads with a Spirit-inspired family mentoring (discipleship) initiative calledY2K Academy Community Development Corporation. She formerly served children on probationin the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice for the Norfolk Interagency Consortium as aComprehensive Services Act provider. Y2KA CDC is responsible for developing Suffolk's firstevidence-based Y2K Dadz Responsible Fatherhood Program. In 2010, she established Virginia'sfirst-ever virtual (online) mentoring program. In partnership with other local churches, the SuffolkProbation Office and Division of Child Support Enforcement, men enrolled in Y2K Dadz havereceived over 750 suits, ties, shirts, overcoats and accessories in the Suited for SuccessTM careerapparel giveaway program. Apostle Prince and her husband have served in the Newport News CityJails teaching fathering skills to Dads. Y2KA CDC partners with Panera Breads, the Genieve Shelterand local churches in the downtown area and Chuckatuck to offer fresh breads, bagels and pastriesto needy Suffolk & Franklin residents three times a week. She also sits on the Genieve ShelterAdvisory Board.Since 2010, over nearly 1,000 Suffolk children have received backpacks, shoes and schoolsupplies at the annual Fathers As First Teachers on the First Day of School Family Gospel Fest.She has received awards and recognition from the Former Governor Tim Kaine, US Senator MarkWarner, AMI Kids Norfolk, STAR 94.1 FM, National CARES Mentoring Movement and manyothers. In January 2013, Y2K Academy CDC and Dr. Johnson were honored by the City of Suffolkduring National Mentoring Month. The Apostle's previous professional history began as a Personnel Administrative Assistant,Photojournalist and Broadcast Journalist for the United States Army where she was stationed atAmerican Forces Network Europe in Frankfurt & USAREUR in Heidelberg, Germany. Her civilianprofessional background includes: Former Owner, Prominent Public Image Public RelationsAgency, Communications Director, The Samaritan Project, Elementary School/H.S. French Teacher,Mass Communications, Non-profit Business Development and Grant-writing.She is a former traffic/news anchor for Westwood One Networks, a freelance reporter forthe Virginian-Pilot, and former Copy Editor for Sunny Day Guides Magazines. She is also aninactive Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), who formerly investigated cases of abuse andneglect for Norfolk Juvenile & Domestic Relations Courts. Since 2009, Dr. Johnson and PastorMaurice Johnson have served as Approved Virginia Supreme Court Parenting Educators for theCourts of Suffolk, Franklin, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, & Southampton County,Virginia. Apostle Prince wrote and won a Department of Health & Human Services NationalFatherhood Initiative Grant. She is founder of Hampton Roads CARES Mentoring Movement, Inc.In June of 2013, she was awarded the Church Digital Media Certification from RegentUniversity, Virginia Beach. Recently, Apostle Prince developed The Master's Military ServiceCenter, a spiritual and social assistance outreach ministry serving military members, Reservists,National Guardsmen, veterans and their family members. She is the former Jurisdictional PublicRelations Officer for Virginia's Fourth Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction. God sent Dr. Johnson a specialdirective in early 2013 to use as many outlets possible to publicize the Gospel of Jesus Christthrough every form of media. In November of 2013, God blessed her to establish a new non-profit Jesus Princess ChristianMedia Corporation to carry out that mission. Through Jesus Princess Media Corporation, Dr.Johnson developed a new women's discipleship society “Jesus Princess Christian WomanhoodSociety” to help women grow in their faith and exemplify Godly character for young womenmentees. She also started a new text messaging media platform called “FellowshipText” which willbe used by churches and organizations to stay in touch with their constituencies via text, radio,Instant Messaging, Broadcast Messaging, Facebook, Twitter and the Web.In February of 2014, she was awarded a Federal Communications Commission RadioStation Construction Permit License to establish WORJ-LP FM, Worship Jesus Radio in Suffolk,Virginia. She was also recognized by the Nansemond-Suffolk Branch of the NAACP with a“Community Trailblazer” award for her leadership in the local community regarding children andfamilies.In August of 2015, Apostle Prince turned on the radio transmitter for WORJ-LP 103.5 FMas Suffolk's only Black-owned and operated Christian radio station. She serves as the President andGeneral Manager. In June of 2016, Worship Jesus Radio was recognized as a featured station byStreamLicensing.com.As an apostle, Dr. Johnson has planted two churches, and planned and provided oversightfor the build out of three separate church worship locations and a local FM Radio Station in theCity of Suffolk. She is Prelate of The E-4:11 Apostolic Network and Founding Apostle of TheMaster's House Church located in Suffolk, Virginia. Christ has gifted Apostle Prince with anapostolic calling, a prophetic preaching and teaching ministry, as well as healing and deliverancegifts designed to bring God His greatest glory and save souls for HIM.###

THE APOSTLE Jesus Christ saved and simultaneously baptized Apostle Dr. PrincellaF. Johnson with the Holy Ghost as a teenager in 1982. Today, withover 32 years' time in Christian service, Apostle Prince is still a fiery,Holy Spirit-filled, worshipper of her Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Sheis the faithful wife of Pastor Elder Maurice E. Johnson, mother of threeand grandmother to one.Christ has helped Apostle Prince impact the lives of thousandsthrough television, radio, and the Internet. She is a much sought outspeaker and workshop facilitator known for her deliverance ministry andprophetically-styled, repentance-inducing preaching of the Gospel. She isExecutive Producer and Host of “Repent Now! TV”, a weekly broadcast aired on WTVZ 33 andCox Cable in Hampton Roads and Eastern, Virginia as well as North Carolina. Apostle Prince isdriven by mercy and compassion for those lost and without Christ, as her ministry especiallytouches those impacted by drug addiction, incarceration, fatherlessness, mental illness, teenpregnancy and HIV/AIDS. God has used Dr. Johnson to heal and deliver many from variousmental, physical illnesses and chemical addictions, like heart disease, alcohol and cocaineaddiction. She has been honored by various organizations and government officials for her workin our communities. She was sent by God to minister to the “least of these.”Dr. Johnson has been used by The Master to serve the nations of South Africa,Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe. As a 4-year Global Missions Director/Executive DirectorMissionary to the “motherland,” she spearheaded farming, hunger relief projects and educationalscholarship campaigns to ensure that hundreds of children in Africa obtain a quality education.WÜA cÜ|ÇvxÄÄt YA ]É{ÇáÉÇ WÜA cÜ|ÇvxÄÄt YA ]É{ÇáÉÇFounding Apostle, The Master's House Church As an American Missionary, she has brought forth spiritual sons and daughters committedto Christ and personal purity as founder and dean of Heart to Heart Mini-College for Singles.Apostle Prince, has tirelessly worked to reduce teen pregnancy and bring quality mentoringprograms to Hampton Roads with a Spirit-inspired family mentoring (discipleship) initiative calledY2K Academy Community Development Corporation. She formerly served children on probationin the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice for the Norfolk Interagency Consortium as aComprehensive Services Act provider. Y2KA CDC is responsible for developing Suffolk's firstevidence-based Y2K Dadz Responsible Fatherhood Program. In 2010, she established Virginia'sfirst-ever virtual (online) mentoring program. In partnership with other local churches, the SuffolkProbation Office and Division of Child Support Enforcement, men enrolled in Y2K Dadz havereceived over 750 suits, ties, shirts, overcoats and accessories in the Suited for SuccessTM careerapparel giveaway program. Apostle Prince and her husband have served in the Newport News CityJails teaching fathering skills to Dads. Y2KA CDC partners with Panera Breads, the Genieve Shelterand local churches in the downtown area and Chuckatuck to offer fresh breads, bagels and pastriesto needy Suffolk & Franklin residents three times a week. She also sits on the Genieve ShelterAdvisory Board.Since 2010, over nearly 1,000 Suffolk children have received backpacks, shoes and schoolsupplies at the annual Fathers As First Teachers on the First Day of School Family Gospel Fest.She has received awards and recognition from the Former Governor Tim Kaine, US Senator MarkWarner, AMI Kids Norfolk, STAR 94.1 FM, National CARES Mentoring Movement and manyothers. In January 2013, Y2K Academy CDC and Dr. Johnson were honored by the City of Suffolkduring National Mentoring Month. The Apostle's previous professional history began as a Personnel Administrative Assistant,Photojournalist and Broadcast Journalist for the United States Army where she was stationed atAmerican Forces Network Europe in Frankfurt & USAREUR in Heidelberg, Germany. Her civilianprofessional background includes: Former Owner, Prominent Public Image Public RelationsAgency, Communications Director, The Samaritan Project, Elementary School/H.S. French Teacher,Mass Communications, Non-profit Business Development and Grant-writing.She is a former traffic/news anchor for Westwood One Networks, a freelance reporter forthe Virginian-Pilot, and former Copy Editor for Sunny Day Guides Magazines. She is also aninactive Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), who formerly investigated cases of abuse andneglect for Norfolk Juvenile & Domestic Relations Courts. Since 2009, Dr. Johnson and PastorMaurice Johnson have served as Approved Virginia Supreme Court Parenting Educators for theCourts of Suffolk, Franklin, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, & Southampton County,Virginia. Apostle Prince wrote and won a Department of Health & Human Services NationalFatherhood Initiative Grant. She is founder of Hampton Roads CARES Mentoring Movement, Inc.In June of 2013, she was awarded the Church Digital Media Certification from RegentUniversity, Virginia Beach. Recently, Apostle Prince developed The Master's Military ServiceCenter, a spiritual and social assistance outreach ministry serving military members, Reservists,National Guardsmen, veterans and their family members. She is the former Jurisdictional PublicRelations Officer for Virginia's Fourth Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction. God sent Dr. Johnson a specialdirective in early 2013 to use as many outlets possible to publicize the Gospel of Jesus Christthrough every form of media. In November of 2013, God blessed her to establish a new non-profit Jesus Princess ChristianMedia Corporation to carry out that mission. Through Jesus Princess Media Corporation, Dr.Johnson developed a new women's discipleship society “Jesus Princess Christian WomanhoodSociety” to help women grow in their faith and exemplify Godly character for young womenmentees. She also started a new text messaging media platform called “FellowshipText” which willbe used by churches and organizations to stay in touch with their constituencies via text, radio,Instant Messaging, Broadcast Messaging, Facebook, Twitter and the Web.In February of 2014, she was awarded a Federal Communications Commission RadioStation Construction Permit License to establish WORJ-LP FM, Worship Jesus Radio in Suffolk,Virginia. She was also recognized by the Nansemond-Suffolk Branch of the NAACP with a“Community Trailblazer” award for her leadership in the local community regarding children andfamilies.In August of 2015, Apostle Prince turned on the radio transmitter for WORJ-LP 103.5 FMas Suffolk's only Black-owned and operated Christian radio station. She serves as the President andGeneral Manager. In June of 2016, Worship Jesus Radio was recognized as a featured station byStreamLicensing.com.As an apostle, Dr. Johnson has planted two churches, and planned and provided oversightfor the build out of three separate church worship locations and a local FM Radio Station in theCity of Suffolk. She is Prelate of The E-4:11 Apostolic Network and Founding Apostle of TheMaster's House Church located in Suffolk, Virginia. Christ has gifted Apostle Prince with anapostolic calling, a prophetic preaching and teaching ministry, as well as healing and deliverancegifts designed to bring God His greatest glory and save souls for HIM.###

Join us this week as we finally have another discussion with the star of American Missionary, Gregg Montella.  He shares a little bit about the anti-human trafficking ministry work he's doing in countries like Moldova, and then we get down to talking about the abundant love and grace of God. Is grace really a license to sin?  Is it "sloppy agape"?  Where does the grace of God truly fit in the believer's life and ability to live a holy, repentant life?  Join us to find out as we have a fun and insightful discussion! Visit Gregg's site One Heart International Mission   Relevant Articles: Sipping Saints - Christians and Alochol, It's All Grace? both by Steve Bremner If you’d like to subscribe to the Fire On Your Head Podcast, visit our directory in iTunes, or visit FireOnYourHead.com for more subscription options.