A “Painstaking Labor of Love”
God's Word will radically change lives. The process of translating it for a people group is a painstaking labor of love.
Awakening…
It’s a term used often to create mystery, to form a mental image of something not yet realized. It’s also the name of the most recent video that our communications team has put together and it’s title perfectly describes the content. Imagine the little shoot of a baby Oak tree just pushing through the ground.That little […]
Happy Holidays?
In my son Jack’s 1st grade class, the students are intentionally exposed to a host of various significant holidays that take place roughly around this time of the year. Christmas, Hanukkah, Ramadan, Kwanzaa… It’s an attempt to teach the children that there are other things happening at this time of the year besides the pervasive […]
The Same I AM…
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…
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
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 […]
Is there any other way?
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 […]
Tribal Missions…Where?
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 […]