History, Real Life, and Faith
Why is My Utmost for His Highest an important book? It’s one of the best-selling devotionals of all time–publishers don’t even know the total number of copies sold. (The most educated guess puts the number at more than 14 million copies.) Many people around the world read My Utmost for His Highest regularly. It tops the list of “Popular Christian Devotionals,”…
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A group of missionaries from our church recently visited Nicaragua. My husband and I participated in the same eyeglass ministry in the Rio San Juan region six years ago. (You can read the seventeen posts I wrote about the 2011 experience starting here). The latest mission marked the eleventh year of providing rudimentary eye examinations, glasses, sunglasses, Bibles, and toys…
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5 ways My Utmost for His Highest changed the faith of a writer
I don’t actually own Mrs. Douglas MacArthur‘s tablecloth, but I own one like it. What is that tablecloth? It’s a white tablecloth she used whenever she served dinner to foreign dignitaries. Whenever everyone finished eating, she handed them a pen and asked them to sign the tablecloth. She then had it embroidered. Can you imagine the names that must still be…
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So, what is My Utmost for His Highest? I laughed out loud and asked the question after glancing through my list of blog posts. If you’re not familiar with the devotional, you might not know why I write about it all the time. Here are some descriptions and explanations A devotional My Utmost for His Highest at its most basic is a…
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Are there ways to support a missionary beyond sending money? I’ve been reading about missionaries quite a bit the last several years. Certainly, we donate to missionaries. But recently, I realized we can help a missionary without handing out any money at all. Indeed, there are several ways. Prayer When a good friend lived with us on furlough several years…
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