How true it is…So often, more often than we prefer, we’re barred from progress. Maybe a simple delay. And then there are times when we’re overcome by opposition. Sometimes clobbered.A few years ago I ...  Read More

May I take this trail following the Christmas holidays?Dryness.Haven’t we all been there? It may have spiritual roots. Or it may have nothing to do with our friendship with God. It just might be that ...  Read More

CS Lewis puts God’s love for everybody in words that may set us back when he says there are no ordinary people, that we’ve never talked to a mere mortal.That discovery becomes dramatic when we interac...  Read More

How gracious of God that the manger wasn’t sanitary nor was the infant kept silent.The year ahead will surely present challenges for each of us. Harold Myra braces us with this from Oswald Chambers:“T...  Read More

I’ve quoted author Harold Myra’s perspectives many times. This is from his devotional writings in The Pilgrim’s Progress.* There’s a scene where Interpreter showed Christian a fire burning against a w...  Read More

Each month I read the ministry updates and the gratitude you express to your supporters. I think often about the not-too small army of real people whose employment and income allow them to contribute ...  Read More

First, thank you for praying for my wife Linda during her chemotherapy sessions. We’re grateful to our God for her progress, for answering the prayers of His people. At this time it appears the cancer...  Read More

I caught myself thinking about the Creator of all there is. Then it hit me. He is the Creator of: us. Not one to abandon the pride of his work, this supreme Artist puts us on display for his own perfe...  Read More

I think a lot about servant leaders. In this culture of gaining more, it isn’t a valued quality even among believers. The term was coined in 1970 by Robert Greenleaf.I’ve read your updates over the ye...  Read More

Hi Mission Dispatch friends—I’ve mentioned the One Year Book of Encouragement by Harold Myra. What a treasure. The devotional for November 29 spoke to me in this way…The hope we have in our King is ge...  Read More

Good morning, Mission Dispatch friends,A few years ago I heard a group of ministers refer to the believer’s life as following the breadcrumbs—from the Hansel and Gretel tale. That’s a weakened image o...  Read More

Good morning, Mission Dispatch friends—I picture the image of keeping ourselves under the protection of God’s wing.Let me say it simply, and I trust with discretion. We professional Christian workers ...  Read More