We have to remember that God's perspective is different than our own As Pastor Greg Laurie says where we see weakness God sees potential Where we see the past He sees the future We see a lump of clay He sees a beautiful sculpture More on that in this episode Notes In those days Israel had no king so the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes Judges Israel was living in despair but they finally called out to God to deliver them and He did Jeremiah Read Judges Why has all of this happened to us And [... more]

God loves to use people the world might overlook William Carey was raised in a tiny village in the s and had little formal education He had limited success in his chosen trade and lived in poverty But God gave him a passion for sharing the good news and called him to be a missionary Carey learned Greek Hebrew and Latin and eventually translated the first New Testament into the Bengali language Today he is regarded as a ldquo father of modern missions rdquo but in a letter to his nephew he offered this humble assessment of his abilities ldquo [... more]