I have been told I am intentionally bivocational. Over a number of years, the Lord worked through a series of events and much sanctification to lead me to this kind of ministry. I assume I am labeled...

It was a Thursday night when the call came from my sister informing me that my younger brother Paul had just been diagnosed with terminal lung and liver cancer. My family was serving as missionaries...

I had always wanted to be a nurse. To use my skills and passion to take the gospel to areas that needed physical and more importantly spiritual healing. I didn't know what that would look like but I...

“An entire people group disappeared and was buried under the rubble,” he said. ...

Haydee is an active member of our Hispanic Congregation. She and her small group have been praying for the relationship between her husband, Doug, and her stepdaughter, Christine, for quite some time....

The mixture of laughter, shouting, toy cars crashing, cash registers dinging, and stray cheerios crunching beneath my feet filled my ears. The room whirled in perpetual motion: an array of freeze...

August, 1972. The phone rang insistently. The young wife answered it. She and her husband had just returned from their usual. Sunday afternoon walk with their dog, Duffy. They were two weeks away from...

Golf solo. Golf with my 8-year-old. Golf with other men. These are three options that are currently big in my life. ...

For a little while there, Lindsey Aston had wondered if she’d ever find her. But then all of a sudden — pretty much out of nowhere — there the girl was, wide eyes locked on Lindsey.

We didn’t pick Marks Village, God did. Almost 3 years ago we felt convicted that we needed to serve locally and the only thing we knew was that we wanted to serve together. We walked up to the local...

The scar where the bullet nicked Mahdi’s* ear was covered by his white hair, but just like the shrapnel marks on his teenage son’s back, no one forgot it was there.

Five years ago, I felt a desire to serve more at Brook Hills. I am a teacher and special education was my first calling many years ago. When I saw the need for special buddies in the children’s...

No other season of the year provides such unusual opportunities as Halloween. Our neighbors will be outside roaming the streets in packs and walking right up to our homes! If that’s not unusual...

The gift of becoming parents to our two children has been one of the most joyful seasons in our life, but with that joy also came a great responsibility. We were both blessed to be raised in Christian...

I was completely unaware of the term “person of peace” this time twelve months ago. As my wife and I began our equipping journey to join a Brook Hills church planting team in the metro New York...

My seven-year-old son is fascinated with the concept of time travel. He will tell you with absolute certainty that he is going to make the first effective time machine, and I believe him! I’d like...

In Galatians 4 Paul tells us how we have been miraculously and graciously transformed from slaves, estranged from God, into sons, dearly loved and welcomed into His loving embrace. It was not enough...

As elders of The Church at Brook Hills, we believe the following three verses are foundational to our elder ministry here: Acts 20:28 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which...

Arriving in China four years ago, we knew we had a lot to learn, but we also thought that our reading and studying of Islam had prepared us to share the gospel with Chinese Muslims. For two years, we...

The straight A student who looks forward to book reports, pop quizzes, and extra credit assignments—that was me—a bit of a word nerd. Reading, writing, and editing others’ writings are among my...

Praise God that He is patient with us and actually takes the time to change our hearts and open our eyes. We are convinced that this is a large part of His process for making us more like Him. We also...

It started one afternoon when I spilled a bottle of water on my laptop. Seeing that the nearest credible Apple Store is a few oceans away, I went to bed that night upset and exhausted. I woke up...

As many of you know, in the process of considering what to share with you during the two sermons leading up to the final vote, I ended up reading this passage from Philippians 1. Immediately I knew...

I’m thirteen and I just moved to the desert in East Asia. I’ve left my friends and the comforts of home. The food tastes like something I’ve never eaten, the air is dry and it smells like spice,...