Around my own friends, I like to mess around.
Pursuing prayer is prayer on a mission. It is diligent, fervent, constant, persevering, determined, and convinced.
Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached
It is just as proper, maybe even more so, to say Christ's global cause has a Church as to say Christ's Church has a global cause.
God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.
Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them.
Prayer is action. By it we step out in advance of all other results. . . Praying is an activity upon which all others depend. By prayer we establish a beachhead for the kingdom among peoples where it has never been before. Prayer strikes the winning blow. All other missionary efforts simply gather up the fruits of our praying.
It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.
I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.
My teacher knew that I always had a girlfriend. For some reason, he never said anything to me about it.
It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.