When Hudson Taylor was director of the China Inland Mission, he often interviewed candidates for the mission field. On one occasion, he met with a group of applicants to determine their motivations for service. "And why do you wish to go as...
That’s the theme for our annual Mission offering. Each year for the past decade, we’ve taken a special offering at the beginning of November to catch up our ministry budget as needed and help fund the work of 5 mission partners that are helping...
As I write this column we here at Ridgecrest are contemplating a massive Hurricane headed to the Gulf Coast with extenuating repercussions to us and areas beyond. By the time you read this article, we will all know the extent of the storm. But as...
The Tower of Babel is spoken of in Genesis 11, and it tells the story of the first attempt at creating a “New World Order”. It is about humanity’s effort to circumvent its dependence on God by creating a tower expressing their self-determination...
Max Lucado in his book, In the Eye of the Storm, shares a story about the life of an unusual woman. This is how he tells it… “Sarah was rich. She had inherited twenty million dollars. Plus, she had an additional income of one thousand dollars a...
