I Dare You

…to give Al Martin one hour out of your busy weekend:

True pastors offer unkind truth
to kill the party and harsh our high…
and as we cling to fading youth
they ask if we are ready to die.

Albert N. Martin’s greatest hits HERE

Maasai Good News

Oct16

Road to Kilimanjaro

I recently read Faster Beats the Drum by Gladys Stauffacher.
It described how the Africa Inland Mission brought the Gospel into East Africa in the early 1900s. I also read Road to Kilimanjaro recently. Both books describe the land and people of Kenya, where my family lived for about 6 years during the 1970’s. It is encouraging to see how the Gospel of Christ has spread since the pre-WWI era described in these two books. The lives of these missionaries of the early 1900’s are inspiring. YouTube bears witness to their work in the vibrant faith of the peoples of Kenya! Just type in “Kenya Gospel” and you will find songs of every major ethnic group exalting the risen Lord Jesus Christ. Every tribe, every nation, every tongue – HALLELUJAH.

Veiled / Unveiled

Nov3

[From: Reformation Lady]

In summary then, everything, absolutely everything, EVEN our own SIN serves a redemptive purpose in our lives, through Christ, that we may see Him more, and more, and more, until that final day, when we behold His glorious, astounding, creation-remaking beauty, unveiled in our sight.

THIS is simply astonishing — that Christ would turn the very outworking of our wicked hearts and rebellion into that which no longer condemns us but is part of the very process of our final redemption and salvation. In Christ when we repent, our sin no longer damns us before God because our debt has been propitiated (set aside) by the payment He made through His death. Instead, our sin is a useful tool in His hands for our own sanctification. Is there ANYTHING more ASTOUNDING than this? What a glorious Gospel, what a gracious God.
Dear believer, never, ever get over the work of Christ on your behalf and in you!