For several months now, I have been doing a video teaching lesson with a group of pastors in India. Recently, I added a second group from another area. These pastors have little training and have been so encouraged by our times together as I share through a translator. They travel some distance and there is a cost to feed them and help them with travel expense. Frankly, they do not have the funds to do this. They scrape to get survive. They also want Bibles to distribute. We

As you ride into Cruso a sign promotes the number of nice people who live there—and one old grouch. I don’t want to be known for wearing a scowl and speaking with a sneer—do you? Here is what Paul said: “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which su

Salvation is in three tenses.  I have been saved from the penalty of sin, I am being saved from the power of sin, and I will be saved from the presence of sin. All of these dimensions of deliverance are described in Titus 2:11-14:   For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of