What About America?
Stephen Venable
These three words. Over the last several years I have found that if you press the call to frontier missions strongly enough, they almost inevitably come up. A casual presentation of the need for pioneering missionaries will usually draw a round of gentle applause and slight nods of the head in approval. If you go […]
What is God’s Calling for Your Life?
Stephen Venable
After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go. And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.” Luke 10:1–2 Before even reading the words that follow here, take a […]
There is a Dying in the Hiding
Stephen Venable
“I have but one passion: It is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ…I am destined to proclaim the message, unmindful of personal consequences to myself…Preach the […]
The Boundary Lines of God
Stephen Venable
Do those words seem strange together? Does God have limits? No. His power and His understanding are unsearchable (Psalm 145:3, Psalm 147:5, Luke 1:37). Yet God does have definition. There is very real (and tremendously important) criteria that make it clear that He is the One living God and that everything else is not. Before […]
A Man and Monotheism
Stephen Venable
the view from Kadikoy – a vibrant district of modern-day Istanbul on the site of ancient Chalcedon How did a group of Jewish men in the 1st century go from following their rabbi to worshiping Him as their Creator? How could belief in the divinity of Jesus and the actual practice of devotion to Him […]
Ancient Beginnings
Stephen Venable
Although it is transcendent, the incarnation has secured forever the historicity of our faith. Our confessions are grounded in events that unfolded on the earth, and the belief in the divinity of Christ did not hatch in a vacuum. In seriously addressing the subject of the deity of Christ we cannot conveniently skip ahead four-hundred […]
What Makes You a Christian?
Stephen Venable
A number of months ago I posted a short blog on the way Philippians 2:6-11 tells the story of God in the person of Jesus. The first phrase in that holy narrative is “the form of God”. The divinity of Jesus is one of the pillars of orthodoxy regarding the person of Christ. When men confront […]
Embarking on a New Path
Stephen Venable
A NEW SEASON For the last two years we have had the privilege of serving on the leadership team of ACTS (the Antioch Center for Training and Sending) – the missionary training and sending organization that has been based out of IHOPKC. ACTS came into being in 2010 around the vision to send “the best […]
They Left
Stephen Venable
They could have stayed, but they didn’t. They didn’t have to go, but they left anyway. Jesus must be interested in more than convenience and the path of least resistance. Yes, He is. And their leaving means a fragrance ascending. “But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests […]
Death, Desire, and Details
Stephen Venable
Details are only optional in a relationship that is casual. There is to be nothing casual whatsoever about our devotion to Jesus. Love demands everything and our desire for Jesus should compel us to seek entrance into every detail of His life – no matter how small it might seem at first. Years ago I […]
Theo-Drama
Stephen Venable
“Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be used for His own advantage, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in […]
The Invisible War
Stephen Venable
I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness; but indeed you are bearing with me. For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin. But I am afraid that, as the […]
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