Wise Counselors
When I sensed God calling me to full-time ministry, the Lord used part of 1 Samuel 3:10 as the key verse: “Speak, for your servant is listening.” As I knelt at the altar of Epworth Camp, there were three men
Beatitudes Peacemakers 2024
At the end of a youth worship experience, I spoke the benediction over the youth in the room and stated, “Go in peace, not in pieces.” I may have heard another pastor speak this benediction in a previous worship experience,
Beatitudes—Merciful
Elisabeth Elliot wrote Through Gates of Splendor in 1957 recounting the experience of five missionaries who lost their lives at the hand of men from a tribe in eastern Ecuador. After the five men were killed, Elisabeth, along with her daughter Valerie