great commission

3 min read 2022-05-30 11:03:00

Bear Witness in Word and Deed

Anytime I taste something particularly delicious, I offer a bite to my husband and watch with eager anticipation for his reaction. Many of us are

3 min read 2022-05-17 11:03:00

If you follow evangelical missiology, you may know there’s been a dustup recently over some popular missiological methodologies. A caricature of

2 min read 2022-05-09 14:10:39

If you know me at all, you’ve probably heard me talk about the Law of Preparation and how I think it has massive influence on church

4 min read 2022-04-14 23:39:53

There are lots of opinions about what a local church should look like, but at its CORE, the local church is a body of believers who “should”

1 min read 2022-04-11 22:00:00

Matt Rhodes, No Shortcut to Success: A Manifesto for Modern Missions (Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2022), 270 pp. The mandate to proclaim the gospel to

5 min read 2022-04-05 11:03:00

The internet brims with statistics on Christians missions. Some are more reliable and helpful than others, but many discourage those of us who orient

3 min read 2022-03-28 11:03:00

Faithfulness to the Word is the mark of successful ministry. Numbers are not. Numbers may deceive minds; faithfulness will defy metrics. Yet God

6 min read 2022-03-24 14:03:47

Commitment to organized religion is now declining at the same time the public passionately pursues personal, spiritual journeys. How ironic that

2 min read 2022-03-21 14:05:28

One of our worship leaders shared a great line in an email to me. He and his wife met a couple from our area at a marriage retreat recently. As

2 min read 2022-03-14 14:07:15

I once heard a joke about statistics. The person giving the stats said – “73.267% of all stats are made up on the spot.” That may not be the

3 min read 2022-03-10 15:21:23

Ray is twenty-seven years old and works in IT at the local university. He’s been married for three years and he and Jessica just had a baby girl a

3 min read 2022-03-01 19:59:43

On the heels of my recent take on John 3:16 seemed like a good time for a closer look at how the designation, interpretation and application of the

4 min read 2022-01-20 15:01:29

There are lots of opinions about what a local church should look like, but at its CORE, the local church is a body of believers who “should”

2 min read 2022-01-17 15:01:53

Starting a church from scratch is never an easy path. It is something that requires faith, an undeniable calling along with some “blood, sweat,

3 min read 2022-01-12 15:35:32

A couple of days ago, I wrote a short definition of mission that I plan to use in some posts in the future. For the most part, reaction has been