Here’s a great video of a surprising and miraculous story of God working to reach a people with the gospel. The story is told by Malcolm Hunter of the U.S. Center for World Mission. Worth viewing/listening to. It will challenge your thinking, lift your heart and make you praise your God. Just some of the … More God Goes Before Us
Weekend Musings and Quotes “When he began his mission in Burma, Judson’s original goal was to translate the Bible and establish a church of 100 members before his death. When he died 38 years later, he left behind the entire Bible in the Burma language, 100 churches, and over 8,000 believers when including the minority … More Weekend Quotes and Musings
Thursday is for Discipleship My love for my children, all four of them, borders on idolatry. I would die for them without even giving it a second thought. I am unashamedly proud of them, excited by them and their potential as well as their present. Their protection and joy, in many ways, has been my … More Hey Dad’s, How’d You Like to Give this Guy Permission to Marry Your Daughter?
Five Evaluation Questions for Your Church and You Does your church (and you) love pagans? Does your church know any pagans? Do the people in your church know how to meet pagans? Do the people of your church know how to talk to pagans? Do the people of your church know how to care for … More Five Evaluation Questions for Your Church Plant (or soul)
Thursday is for Discipleship Four simple principles on how to develop a passion for your neighbors who don’t know Christ: STUDY THE WORD OF GOD. More specifically, study the missionary heart of God for the world. “There is no situation in your life, in your ministry, no situation in evangelism or personal relationship, where a … More How to Fall in Love with the People You are Trying to Reach for Christ
Monday is for Discussion Looking more closely at what God did with the Ethiopian Eunuch. Here are the facts as we know them: He is from Ethiopia (vs. 27) He is a Eunuch (vs. 27) –probably by choice rather than physical cutting or birth else he would not be able to enter the Temple (Assuming … More Learning to Trust the Spirit from the Ethiopian Eunuch
Wednesday is for Prayer Earlier today I learned that Steve Saint, son of Nate Saint, the martyred missionary to the Auca Indian tribe of Ecuador was injured in an accident at the headquarters of I-TECUSA (Indigenous Peoples Technology and Education Center). There is a powerful video out of his recovery in the hospital as well as … More Remembering Warriors for the Cross in Their Time of Need
Wednesday is for Prayer Too often we help others because it makes us feel good. We need to help the poor for the poor not our self-esteem. Another way of putting it—We need to help the poor because we love Jesus and them not ourselves. Don’t miss this Short video from the The Chalmer’s Center. … More We’ve Got to Find Better Ways to Help the Poor Everywhere
Wednesday is for Prayer I am in Wisconsin training church planters and church planting leaders with Dynamic Church Planting International. These training events are always a delight and fuel my heart for Jesus and the Kingdom. I resigned from New Song Church for this very purpose, to invest in the next generation of church planters. … More Are There Distinctive ‘Evangelical’ Issues for a Theology of Mission?
Monday Discussion Two years ago, Ed Stetzer had post about a paradigm shift that needed to occur in all of our churches (meaning, all our churches in America of every denomination). But while this needs to happen in all of our churches, church plants in particular need to lead the way. We don’t need 1,000’s … More Thinking Better about Mission
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