Trips to Honduras and Australia Sometimes it is easy to get discouraged as we look at the sad state of the visible, professing church (and please do note these two adjectives, "visible" and "professing."). There is so much nonsense, so much compromise, so much hypocrisy, so much bad teaching that it almost seems as if there is no hope and that there just isn't any good news to report. Not true. I want to give you a synopsis of my two most recent international trips and share with you some of the incredible testimonies I have heard. There are still many good pastors out there pastoring good churches and God is still very much in the business of changing people's lives and bringing those who were dead in sin to new life in Christ. I want this program, firstly, to be a praise to our great God and, secondly, to be an encouragement to you.