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  • Pray for our Global Workers

    “Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.” — Colossians 4:2 (ESV) Over the last five weeks, you’ve been introduced to dozens of global workers, and prayed for each of them! Today, we want to invite you to go back through some of the prayer points we’ve sent

  • Charlie Kirk’s Murder is Close to Home

    Founder of Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk, was fatally shot in the neck just a few minutes after beginning his talk at Utah Valley University, not far from our home. UVU is a campus nestled under rising, protective mountains, filled with Latter-day Saint students, in a valley that we always

  • Pray for More Laborers

    “Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ Then I said, ‘Here I am! Send me.’” — Isaiah 6:8 (ESV) As our Global Worker Gathering comes to a close, we want to turn our prayers toward those who are

  • The Episcopal Church and the ‘E’ Word

      In the 1980s I attended a Creative Christian Education workshop conducted by the late Howard Hanchey and hosted by Christ Episcopal Church in Covington, Louisiana. During the workshop Dr. Hanchey told the participants about his plans to write a book on outreach, evangelism, ad church growth. He explained that

  • The Earliest Apocalypses: In the Beginning Was the End

    First, the Babylonians gave the ancient Jews the experience of an apocalypse, and then, after their liberation, the Persians gave them the language with which to understand that apocalypse. For almost two generations during the seventh century BCE, following the Babylonian invasion of the kingdom of Judea and the destruction

  • The Missionary Tool We Forget

    My favorite hobby—by a mile—is missionary work. There are dozens of ways to introduce others to this incredible, restored Church of Jesus Christ. And we all know ways to make it easier, and remove the fear so many feel about sharing the greatest news since the resurrection. The essential key