by Elijah Challenge | Mar 22, 2018 | Articles/Teaching, Teachings, Training
In September 2000 I was in Pakistan on my very first visit there. I stayed with a believer named “Brother Wallace,” his wife, and two teenage daughters, “Michelle” and “Margot.” Our host was Pastor Samuel who had arranged for...
by Elijah Challenge | Mar 21, 2018 | Articles/Teaching, Teachings, Training
If we indeed desire to hasten the Day of the Lord (2 Peter 3:12), we should prioritize the Great Commission. So much work remains to be done in terms of preaching the gospel to all nations—billions have never heard the gospel even once—yet the time remaining is so...
by Elijah Challenge | Mar 6, 2018 | Articles/Teaching, Teachings, Training
Spiritual complacency results in dead religion which will lead to the majority in the nation turning away from the Holy God. Perversions of various kinds will be accepted by the culture—as is now taking place in America and the West—and become mainstream even within...
by Elijah Challenge | Mar 5, 2018 | Articles/Teaching, Teachings, Training
Today we hear from missionaries and servants of God in gospel-resistant countries that miracles like miraculous healings do in fact take place. But do they reflect the impressive pattern recorded in Acts where early disciples like Philip, Peter, and Paul brought...
by Elijah Challenge | Mar 4, 2018 | Articles/Teaching, Teachings, Training
Typically we are told that “he must increase, but I must decrease” (John 3:30). We interpret this to mean that we must allow God to do it all. Since we are helpless humans with flesh tainted by sin, our involvement in the matter must decrease as much as possible so...
by Elijah Challenge | Mar 3, 2018 | Articles/Teaching, Teachings, Training
Luke 23:42 Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” 43 Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.” Just before his last breath the thief on the cross heard these words from Jesus—simply because he...
