Melody Mason

Do you sometimes feel as if you are living in a dry spiritual wilderness and wonder why God does not seem to be answering your prayers? Are you finding yourself overwhelmed with the responsibilities and challenges of ministry at times? Perhaps…

In 2012, I looked over the early morning bustle of Jakarta, Indonesia, from the rooftop of the hotel where I was speaking at a convention.¹ From a nearby mosque, an imam’s call to worship soared across the neighborhood. I listened…

Corrie ten Boom, author of the well-known book The Hiding Place, knew what it meant to suffer. She spent ten terrifying months in Germany’s brutal concentration camps—all for the crime of concealing Jews during the Nazi occupation…

Jesus, could you please send me a Bible!” was the desperate plea of one half-starved boy from a village in the Henan Province. But this was communist China in the 1970s; there were no Bibles where he lived, and those caught possessing one…

Mark Finley tells the story of how he and his wife attended one of the largest Seventh-day Adventist congregations in the world. It had started with only nine members and spread to more than 300 church plants. There were as many as 50 to…