Author: Stacey Hare

“The vision Peter had at Joppa did not consist of a sheet from heaven filled with unclean DVDs, with Peter being told to arise and watch.” –Douglas Wilson Douglas Wilson’s quote gets to the heart of an extraordinary sermon on Christian liberty by our Kentucky pastor Ryan Fullerton.  In listening to this sermon, we could not help but to see how we tend to think of Christian Liberty as being mainly for our own gratification.  However, it is surprising to realize that God gave us this liberty so that we can use it to enslave ourselves to others.  In the words…

Here’s some pics of the kiddos.  They are doing well overall.  They are very inquisitive and ask us “why?”  all day (along with every other questions under the sun).  They (along with their parents) are thrilled that their dad only has 4 more weeks of school left!!!  We cannot believe how fast Dave’s schooling has gone!  They are lots of fun (and lots of work)!

There is so much wonderful Kingdom work to do in America, so why should Christians leave “their own” to go into foreign missions? William Carey, 18th century missionary to India, answers that question nicely.  He says: That there are thousands in our own land as far from God as possible, I readily grant, and that this ought to excite us to ten-fold diligence in our work, and in attempts to spread divine knowledge amongst them is a certain fact; but that it ought to supersede all attempts to spread the gospel in foreign parts seems to want proof. Our own countrymen…

William Carey was an 18th century shoe-maker who is now known as the Father of Modern Missions.  After a short career as a pastor he desired to go to India for the sake of missions but was lacking support from the church in America.  His church considered mission work unnecessary because of an imbalanced view of the sovereignty of God.  He was told by one man, “If God wants to convert the heathen, he will do it without consulting you, or me!”  In response he wrote a rather long document that is now known as his “Enquiry.” I have been…

“Has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?” James 2:5 World Team missionaries have been laboring among the Baka for decades and, after much prayer and teaching, the Lord has blessed them by letting them see the fruit of their labors.  When Dave and I visited Cameroon over a year ago, we had the joy of visiting with the Baka people when a man came to Christ.  Since then, the Lord has saved many many more.  As of…

We’ve been amazed to see that there have been around 1,100 page views of our previous post about Noah’s sudden death.  This plainly testifies to how loved and respected he was by so many.  Clearly, we all feel sad, but what else are we to feel?  How could the Lord be using his death for our good? In looking up a couple Scripture passages, we’re convinced that Noah’s death serves to remind us that… Life is Brief We still cannot believe Noah is gone.  We cannot believe that we will not be working with him and we will never see…

It is strange to even write this blog entry because we know that Noah will not be reading it.  He always read our blog and encouraged us in what we had written.  Who would have guessed there would be a post dedicated to him?    Today Dave and I received an email from World Team saying that Noah Huss, one of World Team’s mobilizers, was in a car accident yesterday and died due to his injuries.  We have been crying off and on ever since. When we first heard this news we simply could not believe it.  Dave had just emailed…

Yep, that’s right—a goat-head.  Who knew we’d have the option of eating a goat’s head for dinner the other night?  Dave was assigned a class project to take part in a “cross-cultural” experience and thus we found ourselves experiencing a little bit of Africa the other night.  We went to an African restaurant and it smelled like Africa, a Cameroonian woman waited on us, there were pictures of President Obama everywhere (like Africa!), and we were served African food.  For those of you who are wondering, we opted not to eat the goat head but got fish and rice instead. …

When you ask Zoey what her name is, she says, “Elias.” When you ask Elias what his name is, he says, “Zoey.” When we had a not-so-tall repair man come to our house the other day, Kaden kept referring to him as “The Liittle Man.”   “Mom, why is the little man here?”  “Where’d the little man go?” (yiiiiikes!) Zoey regularly puts her dinner on her face and talks on it like it’s a phone. Kaden is abnormally observant.  The other day, while he was in another room, I took my wedding ring off to do Kyra’s hair and the next…

In a word, we believe that dealing with fear comes down to where we let our minds rest. Either on dangers, which leads to anxiety or on God which leads to peace. We do not believe that the default of the Christian’s mind is to be one of fear, no matter how difficult his or her life might be.  For instance, Proverbs 3:25 tells us, “Do not be afraid of sudden terror.”  We are not to wake up wondering if terrorists are going to bomb our city or if men with machetes are going to break into our home.  We…