Be at peace…

November 6, 2011

Over the past few weeks, my family has been aware of and involved in the lives of a family that we didn’t know very well. But God led us to love and serve the Prairie family at a time when the the dad and husband, Joel, was in the late stages of a battle against […]

Stop and Think…

November 2, 2011

Fire-fighters, Police Officers, Soldiers… and me. What do we have in common? What would put me in the same group as heroes like the above? Not my technical skills, certainly. Not the esteem that they get in our communities. And not the bravery they tap in to. If not those, what then? Split second decisions […]

The Same I AM…

October 17, 2011

It’s a ‘classic’ Bible story. Moses, having somewhat recently taken the life of an Egyptian, has fled from the comfortable life he knew as the ‘grandson’ of the then Pharaoh and traded it in for the life of a nomadic Midianite. The man who had likely tasted the best of what civilization at that time had to offer, […]

The sun might have risen, but the garden is yet to grow…

September 30, 2011

It’s almost midnight in Papua New Guinea, the sun is hours away from rising but when it does, it will shine on gardens that are newly planted. And while the people that plant those gardens, hope that the sun will nourish the seeds planted, those people know that it takes time for a seed to […]

God’s Love Never Fails…Please Pray

September 22, 2011

Something that could only controlled by God’s sovereignty happened in the last 36 hours. I’ve been involved, in small ways, in preparing to have tribal church planters Mike and Libby Wild, speak during chapel here at NTBI this Thursday morning. I met Mike and Libby almost exactly 4 years ago. We had just arrived to […]

Our Help

August 26, 2011

The song “Oh God Our Help in Ages Past” was brought to mind by an author I was reading this morning. A unique contrast takes place in the first two verses. God is our shelter from the storm (very pertinent right now!) and yet, it’s in the shadow of what is surely the most mighty […]

Is there any other way?

August 22, 2011

That was the question that Tim Whatley, the speaker at our Fall semester orientation posed to the group of 160 or so young students of the word. Considering all that it takes, all the sacrifice, hardship, sickness, and effort that it takes to reach the farthest people with the light of God’s glory, is there […]

At The Start | Be Thou My Vision

August 15, 2011

We’re a week away from the beginning of another semester. The beginning of two years that will forever change the lives of 70 new students who are coming to study God’s Word. The beginning of a new semester in the process of becoming ministers of the Word for the other 100 who have already begun […]

One of our homes…

July 29, 2011

If you’ve ever moved away from a hometown or area; How long has it been since you last returned? What have you done in and with your life since you left that area? Do you even want to return to that city or town? My answers to those questions are complex and honestly really positive. […]

Tribal Missions…Where?

June 30, 2011

How about Southern Michigan!? Last week starting Thursday, festival-goers at Michigan’s Big Ticket Festival, got the chance to see tribal church planting from a whole new perspective…their own! The sights and sounds of the Kaulong tribe located in Papua New Guinea’s island province of West New Britain were witnessed by hundreds of people, from 4 […]