Author: Matt and Karissa Long

 “I believe in Jesus, so God has called me already righteous.  It’s the work of the cross.  It’s not work that I make.  Work I make is worthless work.” – a PNG believer at our center I (Karissa) had the opportunity to meet with some PNG citizens who have recently gone through the chronological Bible […]

 If Life is a Highway…Then missionary life is the Highlands Highway We arrived back home and immediately flopped onto the couch and didn’t move for several hours.  We all were exhausted!  From what?  A “simple” four-hour roadtrip. I should explain.  Earlier this month we had the opportunity to go on our first member-care bush trip.  We […]

“Mom, I know that I’m supposed to be more excited about giving presents, but I’m kind of more excited about getting them,” Wyck (my ever-honest child) told me one day before Christmas. When I told my sister-in-law about this conversation, she pointed out that Christmas IS about celebrating the greatest gift we’ve ever received- salvation […]

1 Thessalonians 4:10-11 says, “And in fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia.  Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more, and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told […]

Quick, Run to Danger!We were sitting in the gym waiting for church to start, when the ground started to rumble underneath us.  For a second, we waited, expecting it to be a small earthquake that would pass quickly.  When the beams that held up the roof started to sway, we knew it was time to get out. […]

“Samuel then took a large stone and placed it between the towns of Mizpah and Jeshanah.  He named it Ebenezer (which means ‘the stone of help’), for he said, ‘Up to this point the LORD has helped us!'” – 1 Sam.7:12 Why did God have the Israelites set up standing stones?  Surely they would remember the […]

“But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called ‘Today,’ so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.” -Heb. 3:13 I felt so embarrassed.Recently I was at the ninja (obstacle course) gym my family has been going to the past few months.  I was struggling even to do the monkey bars […]

The Christian ska band Grand Incredible wrote a song called “Be Thou My Television.”  Some of the words are as follow.  “Words of life fill up my empty soul and set my spirit free.  And there’s a light in a black remote control that turns on my TV.  My salvation and my playstation are both […]

“But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus– the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God.” – Acts 20:24 My Grandpa had a great Easter plan.While my grandma was getting the eggs ready for the […]

It’s happened again.I was excited to FINALLY return to my morning small group at church after missing a couple of weeks.  But I woke up with a headache.  A stiff neck, sore eyes, feel like I’m going to throw up if I sit up type of headache.  And so I let my friends know I’m […]