Author: Andy Robbins A young missionary couple sat in my living room last year, sharing with my family and me the details of the gospel work they are doing in a village in Mexico. They felt commissioned by God in their teenage years to go to the mission field. Now only in their early twenties, they had given up the prospects of financial security and the comforts of living in a place like the United States for a 500-square-foot room with no bed...

 Author: Andy Robbins After my last few posts, I had intended to go in a totally different direction with this and subsequent posts. However, something tells me we are not quite done hashing out this issue on the Biblical principles of abundance. Perhaps some of you may be wishing that I would go in a different direction, but as Laurie and Sherry said, it’s my blog and I can do what I want. So there. Now, to the issue at hand. If you are a...

Author: Andy Robbins What is “faith?” Is it simply a religious affiliation? Is it adherence to a set of dogmas? It might seem that this is all faith means in our present spiritual environment. The classic definition of faith is found in Hebrews 11:1. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Literally, faith is a belief in something that is not perceived by the five senses. Perhaps one of the best...

Author: Andy Robbins I am reading through the book of Proverbs again, and today a short little phrase jumped out at me that is right in line with what we have been talking about lately in church regarding generosity. The phrase is found in the last part of Proverbs 21:26: “The righteous give without sparing.” It is sad but true that some of the stingiest people I know are Christians, but it’s not supposed to be that way. As we discussed...

Author: Andy Robbins Last year I was in a little Kentucky town and bumped into a young Asian girl who approached me with a leaflet in her hand. I thought she was soliciting, and in fact she was selling something, but it wasn’t merchandise. What she was selling was Jesus. I discovered while listening to her broken English that she was a missionary. That’s right. She had come from a distant land half way across the globe to evangelize Americans...