New Hope for Nepal

by Jon Konnerup

This past October, I visited Nepal for the second time in my life. The trip brought to mind memories of my first visit nine years earlier.

I remembered how the smoke and smell of incense permeated the air. Clanging bells, whose purpose was to catch a god’s attention, sounded from different directions. Prayer wheels spun. Angry looking gods made of stone and people lighting candles and smearing flowers to appease them were everywhere. Lines of young men being trained as monks walked the streets as other religious leaders with painted faces offered counsel and raised funds for their temples. Rivers flowed with the ashes of the dead who had just been cremated. [click to continue…]

The Existence of God – Part 1

Second article in the series “With Good Reason”
by Keith Bassham
I will depart from the expected format a Bible student/teacher might use for getting at the arguments for the existence of God. For one thing, the words used are hard to spell and pronounce (for instance, teleological argument, anthropological argument, cosmological argument, etc.) and hard to [...]

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The Widow’s Might

Pastor Keith Blake of Tulsa, Oklahoma, declares confidently that the first comprehensive ministry established by the early church was designed primarily to meet the needs of widows (Acts 6). He asks why churches today have not kept up a conscious, directed effort to do the same in the 21st century.
That question prompted Keith to begin [...]

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BBFI sends aid to Haiti after devastating earthquake

by the Tribune
As the Tribune was going to press, we received the news of the devastating earthquake in Haiti January 12. Almost immediately, BBFI pastors and church members began making plans to help in relief efforts.
At presstime, the Mission Office had been in contact with both Wes Lane and Tom Franklin, missionaries in the [...]

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Justus Vinton – the hero of Burma

by Thomas Ray
Justus Vinton was born February 17, 1806, in Ashford, Connecticut, and converted at the age of ten. Believing God had called him to preach the gospel, he enrolled at the age of 20 in the Hamilton Institute in New York. While studying the Karen language (a language in what was then known as [...]

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A force for God and good

by Charles Lyons
Steps away from the floor where Michael Jordan led the Bulls to multiple championships, 300 leaders from across Chicago gathered at the United Center meeting room. Mayor’s office reps, Chicago Police brass, elected officials, and secular social service agency leaders were meeting along with about 150 mostly evangelical “faith community leaders.” This was [...]

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