Money & Missions

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Editorial Comment Editorial

Editorial Comment

Money and missions is the theme of most of our material this time, but a few minutes ago, when I took out the trash, I noticed that my right front tire was almost flat. I had to go to the garage...

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MF Behind the Scenes

Where Your heart Is - There Shall Your Money Go.

There are few things in this world that get as much attention as money. People are always wanting to get more of it--as much as they can get, and they are generally very hesitant about letting...

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The Non-Essentials of Life Feature

The Non-Essentials of Life

Scene 1: Summer 1951

(It was our second date. Ralph and I were sitting on the grass close to the Rose Bowl, getting acquainted. We had first met just two weeks before.)

I want you to know I'm a...

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What is the Bottom Line in Missions? Feature

What is the Bottom Line in Missions?

There is a missionary couple living in California and they have done their work so well that they may be forced to leave missionary work entirely! I recently met this couple and sympathize with...

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Saving Lives, Not Dollars Feature

Saving Lives, Not Dollars

Illinois, where I live and work, is one of three states that do not require motorcyclists to wear helmets. Every two years our legislators take up such a law, but routinely vote it down. Their...

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The Day that Changed the World On the Day of History’s Largest Prayer Meeting Other

The Day that Changed the World On the Day of History’s Largest Prayer Meeting

Introduction

As a boy I used to love to read the the Adventures of Superman comics. The phrase repeated over and over again that has lodged in my memory ever since was the words that people would...

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The Spirit of God is Moving in the South Pacific Other

The Spirit of God is Moving in the South Pacific

Introduction

Jesus said: "The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit" John 3:8...

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The Tarahumara Penetrating a People Through Prayer and Adoption Other

The Tarahumara Penetrating a People Through Prayer and Adoption

"God versus Satan! The Tarahumara people had the contestants right, but little else! According to one of their legends, Satan is God's older brother. One day the two decided to create human beings....

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Global News Update

Iran

Three Evangelical Church Leaders Assassinated Within Six Months

The Rev. Tateos Michaelian, age 62 and pastor of St. John's Armenian Evangelical Church in Iran, was found shot to death...

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Do “Native Missionaries” Exist? Other

Do “Native Missionaries” Exist?

The word "native" is not welcome in many places. They say if you refer to a white man from South Africa as "a native of South Africa" you may pick a fight. However, I call myself "a native...

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Can We Still Afford North American Missionaries? Feature

Can We Still Afford North American Missionaries?

Some people are asking the question, "In light of the growing body of believers around the world, is it time to find alternatives to sending Americans as missionaries?" An avalanche of books and...

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Let the Buyer Beware Feature

Let the Buyer Beware

Financially supporting national pastors and missionaries may not always be the bargain it's cracked up to be.

In the light of the skyrocketing costs of sending North American missionaries, more...

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Commitment to a Wartime Lifestyle Other

Commitment to a Wartime Lifestyle

The Queen Mary, lying in repose in the harbor at Long Beach, California, is a fascinating museum of the past. Used both as a luxury liner in peacetime and a troop transport during the Second World...

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What Wesley Practiced and Preached About Money Feature

What Wesley Practiced and Preached About Money

Most of us know that John Wesley was used of God to revive 18th-century England and to start the Methodist Church. We know him as a great preacher and a greater organizer. But few of us realize...

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