During our tour of an aircraft carrier a jet fighter pilot explained that planes need a -kilometer per hour wind to take off on such a short runway To reach this steady breeze the captain turns his ship into the wind ldquo Shouldn rsquo t the wind come from the planes rsquo back rdquo I asked The pilot answered ldquo No The jets must fly into the wind That rsquo s the only way to achieve lift rdquo God called Joshua to lead His people into the ldquo winds rdquo that awaited them in the Promised Land Joshua required two [... more]

ldquo Time went by War came in rdquo That rsquo s how Bishop Semi Nigo of the Keliko people of South Sudan described delays in his church rsquo s long struggle to get the Bible in their own language Not one word in fact had ever been printed in the Keliko language Decades earlier Bishop Nigo rsquo s grandfather had courageously started a Bible translation project but war and unrest kept halting the effort Yet despite repeated attacks on their refugee camps in northern Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo the bishop and fellow believers kept the project [... more]