Dave Gullett

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“Our parents generation started World Vision in the 1950’s, and it’s grown into an over 2.5 billion-dollar per-year organization providing supplies, food and medical treatment to hurting people around the world. They aren’t the sexiest organization, and they don’t aim to be fashionable, but I’ve been amazed at the people who work at World Vision for may years now. I just wanted to show you what they are doing, already, in Haiti.”

via How Remarkable is World Vision? @ donmilleris.com

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via Z

“Five days after Haiti’s devastating earthquake, an evangelical pastor in a frayed polo shirt, his church crushed but his spirit vibrant, sounded a siren to summon the newly homeless residents of a tent city to an urgent Sunday prayer service.

Voice scratchy, eyes bloodshot, arms raised to the sky, the Rev. Joseph Lejeune urged the hungry, injured and grieving Haitians who gathered round to close their eyes and elevate their beings up and out of the fetid Champ de Mars square where they now scrambled to survive.”

via Amid the Rubble in Haiti, Seeking a Refuge in Faith – NYTimes.com.

“Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world–the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does–comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever” 1 John 2:15-17.

The “beloved” apostle John writes plainly. He doesn’t mince words. His first letter confronts us at every turn when it comes to authentic Christian faith and life. Here, he forthrightly challenges our loves.

via Do Not Love the World – Pure Church by Thabiti Anyabwile.

“The kind of Christian who gets offended when a clerk at Target says “happy holidays” rather than “merry Christmas” when checking out, probably won’t consider moving to a city where Christians are gunned down on Christmas Eve or shot at a wedding. Yet that is exactly what needs to happen. Algeria is 99% Muslim and 99% of the ethnic Malay people are Muslim. Their constitution declares that to be a Malay you must be Muslim. If the Malay, or the Algerian, or the Yemeni, or the Moroccan people are going to believe, thousands of believers need to leave their culture and enter these places with the gospel. Those who go must be prepared to be slighted, to be looted, to be hated, and even to be killed.

Are we making and are we becoming the kind of disciples who would even consider a calling like this?”

Doing Missions When Dying Is a Distinct Possibility – The Gospel Coalition Blog.