THERE'S NOTHING LIKE A WORLD CUP TO PROMOTE A GLOBAL PRAYER REVIVAL OF SORTS! The current World Cup finals in Germany are prompting millions around the world to pray-albeit for unabashed nationalistic glory! After their team scored three times in…
TENT CITY HAS SPRUNG UP AROUND SCHLOSS HURLACH THIS PAST WEEKEND TO ACCOMMODATE HUNDREDS OF YOUTH FROM AROUND THE WORLD preparing for the World Cup outreach in Germany starting this week. From South Africa, Egypt, Brazil, America and numerous other…
FEW PLACES REVEAL THE MANY LAYERS OF EUROPEAN HISTORY LIKE THE DANUBE WATERFRONT OF BUDAPEST. This week Romkje and I, along with other evangelical leaders, visited the Hungarian capital for a cluster of meetings relating to the spreading networks and…
AMONG THE PILE OF MAIL AND MAGAZINES AWAITING US ON OUR RETURN FROM DOWN UNDER, ONE HEADLINE IN PARTICULAR CAUGHT MY ATTENTION. Readers of Elsevier, a leading Dutch secular weekly magazine not known for its piety. were admonished to "Read…
SIXTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES ARE RARE EVENTS WORTH CELEBRATING. The main reason for our down-under sojourn has been the commemoration of my parents' marriage on May 10th, 1946, just months after my father returned to New Zealand from military service in…
