Finding Peace Through God’s Word

Finding Peace Through God’s Word

The pastor read the text from Luke 24:36-43. Then he said, “Jesus, raised from the dead, was not a ghost.” Not a sentence you usually hear in the pastor’s comments on Easter Sunday. But this pastor was speaking to his congregation in Cameroon, where people believed...
By Water and God’s Word

By Water and God’s Word

“Why are you getting baptized?”  “I don’t know but we’re supposed to be. And I will be baptized in the river.” The Uspanteco man in Guatemala went on to explain to his friend that the local church was in grave error. They had built an outside tank they filled with a...
Speaking God’s Word

Speaking God’s Word

The young woman was very ill. Her husband asked LBT missionary Rev. Tim Beckendorf if he would drive her to a nearby clinic. She’d already seen other doctors and traditional healers. Now the clinic confirmed the diagnosis. She was dying. They sent her home to be cared...