Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

The offspring of the woman, Jesus Christ, came into the world to save women who have dethroned God, taken His place, defined personhood as tissue, and willed the death of their own child. It can't be reversed, but it can be forgiven. That is why Christ died.

A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will wait for the Lord. She will hope in God. She will stay close to the heart of God and trust in his promises. The prospect of departing into the way of sin will be too fearful to pursue; and the benefits of abiding in the shadow of the Almighty too glorious to forsake.

Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.

My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.

Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.