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Lois was struggling with a severe setback when her sister Sharon encouraged her to visit an evangelistic web site created by Global Media Outreach. After hearing the gospel and accepting Jesus, Lois found a caring friend who helped her turn [MORE]

A snippet of scripture can become so familiar that its true power and beauty, revealed in its full context, becomes obscured. I was reminded of this when we were asked to read Psalm 46:10 during a GMO all-staff prayer conference call. “Be still, and know that I am God!” Simple, compelling, and — for those of us with a short attention span — a great challenge.

A few weeks ago I saw a news story noting that the estimated world population is now over 7 billion. It’s an almost unfathomable number — it’s hard enough to wrap one’s mind around a million, let alone seven times a thousand times millions. And to think about it even further, 7 billion people with an average life span of 62.7 years are going to collectively live 434 billion years, or over 230 quadrillion minutes.

I was in Indianapolis last week to install a new chapter into GMO’s use of video — our first-ever remote studio. The basic idea is to create a video feed so that the staff there can join live webcasts that [MORE]

A few weeks ago, I was at lunch with some fellow GMO staff members when we started talking about something fun to do for Reformation Day (which, of course, lands on a more pagan holiday). I had been thinking for a while how we can make the whole person of Jesus Christ more central to our online mission work. And thus was born the idea of writing these “theses” for the digital mission; core principle I believe we must embrace to succeed in the opportunity God has given us.