Que bonita mensaje!

I can’t believe I get to live in Mexico! As I write this (11:00 PM), I can hear mariachis in the distance. Not too distant. I wonder how Terri can sleep through it. We had tacos tonight at one of those little stands the mission trip coordinators warn you to...

Church Planting Movements

Recently, I spent a week in Mexico City, one of largest cities in the world. The population is anywhere from 8 million to 19 million, depending on what you read. I even heard while I was there that the entire metropolitan area is around 55 million. Any way you look at...

What You’ve Been Looking For

“There’s got to be more to it than this! I know I’m saved, but where is the joy? Where is the power to resist temptation, to witness and to pray effectively? Where is the holiness of life that I really desire? Where is the intimacy and sweet...

What’s an Evangelist to Do?

In 1903-04, Campbell Morgan delivered a series of addresses to American seminary students on the subject of Evangelism. In his lecture on The Evangelist, Morgan stated, “Happy indeed is that church whose ecclesiastical order will allow it to make room for a man to...

La Zona de Silencia

I have never considered myself to be anti-catholic. Protestant and Reformed, yes. But then, I guess that’s what that means, doesn’t it? We protested against the abuses and false doctrines of Roman Catholicism and reformed the Church.But I’ve seen the...

Brain Tacos, Mexican Telemarketers and Evangelism

As I write this, I am in my third week of a seven week Spanish course in Guadalajara , Mexico , a city of six to eight million. After only a few days of study I had a dream. I was preaching in Spanish! Fluently, and with great power. I can’t tell you how disappointed...