May 5, 2017 After breakfast Fred and I met with the Bible Mission team for a time of prayer. I spoke on the fear of God from Proverbs 9:10 and 3:5-7...
Category - John’s Desk
Personal observations and insights about a broad variety of topics and ideas.
May 4, 2017 Today, Fred, myself, our translator, a colleague from Bible Mission and our driver made our way to a community near the Chinese border to...
Wednesday, May 3 Today, Fred, myself and our translator went to a nearby town of 40,000 to visit a Calvary missionary couple who lead a small church...
Tuesday, May 2 “Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted” (2 Timothy 3:12). Yesterday (as I...
Monday, May 1 As Fred and I have spent time with the Bible Mission team we have also had the opportunity to meet and learn from several pastors about...
Sunday, April 30 Today Fred Bridges and I went with the Bible Mission team to church in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It was Communion Sunday which is very...
Last week at Calvary we celebrated the life and ministry of Cliff Barrows, a remarkable unforgettable man: a man of God who literally impacted the...
Edited version of remarks given in the morning service at Calvary Church on November 13, 2016. Many of you were up late on Tuesday night. Some of you...
When God called me from my law practice to full-time ministry I didn’t know where I would serve the Lord, but assumed it would be Scotland. I did...
In England on June 22, 1772, a 31 year-old man, James Somerset, was involved in a court case. As a young boy in Africa he had been captured and taken...