It's not going to happen through technology or our intellectual abilities but only through prayer. When we pray, God works. We believe God blesses churches that bless missions.

But evil has been around since the Garden of Eden, and God's plan for victory was designed before the world began. The Bible tells us to fear no evil.

The true celebration of Christmas is when we ponder afresh the grace of God who became human, entered history through a virgin's womb, and brought redemption to the world.

The universe is filled with the evidence of God's greatness. In awesome wonder we can consider the worlds He has made.

It is possible to be at the top of Christian service, respected and admired, and not have that indispensable ingredient by which God has chosen to work in His world today - the absolute sacrificial agape love of the Eternal God.

Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.

Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God.