Seeking God’s Face… in Stangers

Want to read a book that might tilt your thinking & theology on the tangle of immigration? Of course you don’t. That’s why we need books like “Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence” by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, referred by...

What did Jesus promise to give his followers?

Written by Nanette Olsen for the iFace staff retreat in Chicago, May 26-28, 2015 Luke 24: 44 Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms...

How Big Is Your God?

One of my favorite verses in the Books of Acts shows how Peter & John respond to a crippled beggar’s plea for money. “Look at us… Silver & gold have I none but such as I have, I give to you….in the Name of Jesus Christ rise up and...

Where God leads He feeds

I was a 2nd year grad student @ Fuller Seminary in Pasadena CA in 1970 when Lynn and I began learning a new lesson in the school of faith: “Where God leads He feeds!” We were renting a tiny 2 bedroom bungalow as newlyweds and full-time students living on...

Fighting the Good Fight of Faith

After sharing “Putting a Face to Ebola Medical Missionaries Named Time’s Person of the Year,” I received this update from Dr. Steve & Joy Lawn, a married team of medical doctors from England who are well known in the global health world and who...