It had been a prayer of ours for some time. Thinking of retirement years: what if we could become involved with a mission organization to help in some small way? But what? I wasn’t a preacher; neither of us had mission experience outside a few short-term mission trips. While browsing through the booths at an International Conference on Missions we came to one called Open Door Libraries. We discove...

We live in an odd age. Many who call themselves “Christian” have little or no desire to attend and be active in church. I’m not sure you can find another age in history where this is so true. Why has this happened? There are probably dozens of contributing factors to this dynamic. In generic terms, we are independent Americans and tend to go our individual way. But this tendency goes beyond being ...

It’s the mantra of our modern society. “I just want to be happy!” And, I mean, it is even written into our countries Declaration of Independence. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”  Is happiness a self-evident truth?The pur...