... we want you to do for us whatever we ask,” what would be your reaction? You’d brace yourself, wouldn’t you? This was going to be a doozy. That was Jesus’ reaction too. “What do you want me to do for you?” he asked. They replied, “Let one of us sit at your right ... People in Politics and History: 250 Anecdotes (Kindle Edition). 2. Issue 39, 1987. 3. Contributed. Source: Ruth A. Tucker. 4. Contributed. Source: James Forlines, Men’s Beat of Free Will Baptist Foreign Missions, April 1999. 5 ...
... store. Take myself, and I will be ever, only, all for Thee. The instruction to go without resources and to depend on hospitality was influential in the development of Christian “faith missions,” a legacy and example that must be remembered and honored. Missions History: From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya, by Ruth Tucker. This book (1983) by Tucker (b. 1945), a missions historian, is wide-ranging in its history of Christian missions. The term “faith missions” was connected with missions that did not have ...
... work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain. Sometimes the righteous and obedient experience adversity worse than they deserve. Missionary History: Paul Carlson. Many missionaries were killed in a single year during the Simba rebellion from 1964 to 1965. In fact, as Ruth Tucker reports it, “The terror unleashed on innocent Congolese Christians and foreign missionaries left thousands dead and even more to suffer from physical and emotional scars that would stay with them the rest of ...
