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Dick Brogden

Dick Brogden

Dick Brogden ( - )

I was born in rural East Africa, just north of Lake Victoria. My dad and mom are my heroes (still missionaries on the field, they went out in 1966) and taught me to love Jesus and love his passions in the earth. I married my best friend, Jennifer, and she is stronger and wiser than anyone will ever know. I have two joys in life—my sons, Luke and Zack. Together we have treasured Jesus among Muslims since 1992, first in Mauritania, then Kenya, then Sudan for the past 15 years. The next treasure stop is Cairo, Egypt.

Jennifer and I love to pioneer, we love working among unreached Muslim people, we love taking the gospel where it has not yet gone. The picture Jenn has had for our lives is that of a team on an obstacle course. We run to the wall first and get down on our hands and knees so others can spring over the wall. We do believe the great opportunity of our age is to engage the world of Islam with our magnificent, divine Jesus. We do consider the Arab world to be the heart of Islam. As Jesus is enthroned in the Arab world, we will be that much closer to every tribe, tongue, and people in worship, that much closer to Jesus coming back to take us all home. Whatever that costs us, Jesus is worth it.

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We have made Christmas about coming home and being comfortable. Jesus’ approach to Christmas was to leave home and be uncomfortable.
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The good news is only good if people want to be rescued.
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Sir Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747–1813) was a Scottish jurist and historian. It is thought that he wrote in 1801: “The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back to bondage.
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DO NOT THINK ME MAD. IT IS NOT TO MAKE MONEY THAT I BELIEVE A CHRISTIAN SHOULD LIVE. THE NOBLEST THING A MAN CAN DO IS JUST HUMBLY TO RECEIVE AND THEN GO AMONGST OTHERS AND GIVE.” —David Livingstone
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Small repeated steps of obedience produce immunity to large steps of temptation.
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The person who has no reputation to protect is the most free. What a luxury not to care what people think of us. “Praise and blame equally are nothing to him who is dead and buried with Christ,” Father Macarius said.
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God does not care about disappointing our celebrations even when the party is for Him.
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As mortals, bound by time, we consider Christ’s agony on the cross to be confined to one day. And yet, God, who is outside of time, knew from the foundation of the world that the Lamb would be slain. The Son of God, who knew no suffering in eternity, entered time with the foreknowledge and intent to suffer for us. Our suffering overtakes us like a thief in the night. The Lamb of God was not taken by surprise, however. From all eternity, from the moment He was born in Bethlehem, Calvary was ever before Him. What kind of God is this? What kind of God does this … for us?
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When we start to look for the sins and mistakes of others, two tragedies occur. First, we find sins and expose them, often through gossip and slander, rather than allow love to cover a multitude of sins. Second, by being a critic—a flawed critic—we remove ourselves from God’s covering of our flaws. We forfeit immunity, and the ultimate result is disastrous self-injury.
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False religions serve as a foil to make the gospel shine. War, disaster, trouble, and tragedy all serve as spotlights that elevate the only hope for humanity: what God has done in Christ. Bad news makes good news all the sweeter.
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We can get this shame into the light (1 John 1: 7). Bringing dark things into the light breaks the back of sin and brings us into fellowship not only with God but with one another.
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When God calls you, if you are not “all in,” you are not in at all.
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Christianity is not the lazy person’s way to heaven. We cannot say “I believe” and then sit back and live a lazy, carnal life.
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Phillip Henry, father of renowned Bible commentary author Matthew Henry, stated it well. Two of his children were deathly sick, and as he wrestled in prayer for their healing, he wrote: “If the Lord will be pleased to grant me my request this time concerning my children I will not say as the beggars at our door used to do, ‘I’ll never ask anything of him again.’ But on the contrary, He shall hear oftener from me than ever; and I will love God the better, and love prayer the better, as long as I live.”9
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Just because God is eternal does not mean He is invulnerable. The fact that God is outside of time makes His misery all the more horrific. The agony of the cross was felt before the creation of the world (“the lamb slain from the foundation of the world” Rev. 13:8) and will be felt long after the re-creation. An eternal God bears eternal wounds. The body of the resurrected Jesus yet bears His scars.
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The Spirit helps us wait. The Spirit empowers us to suffer. The Spirit bears us across the threshold of death and into the presence of Jesus.
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People want reasons; God grants His presence. The great things of God are considered strange and difficult, not because they are complex but because they are so delightfully simple. God is good. “But what about evil?” God is good. “But what about those who have never heard?” God is good. “Then why do the innocent suffer?” God is good. “Then what about sickness, injustice, and disaster?” Our questions are unending, and the kindest way God answers them is simply to overwhelm us with His presence.
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A fruitful pastor I know keeps a job description from God in his desk. The job description is eight pages long—every page completely blank. He has signed it on the bottom of the last page. Periodically, he pulls it out and reminds himself that God has the authority and absolute right to fill in those pages as He wills.
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Social media reveals both too much and too little. On the one hand, every banality is self-disclosed to a voyeuristic world. On the other hand, our true selves are buried beneath layers of self-absorption. Psalm 139 unveils the joys of being fully known.
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Like Abram, let us be people who leave what we know for what is uncomfortable. Let us make our way to the peoples who refuse to worship Jesus, pitch our tent, build our altars, and call on the name of the Lord. He will look on all threats against us and grant us boldness to speak His Word. We and the nations will be shaken.
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