Pressure Point #1 Unreached Peoples
This is the second post in the series that I’m doing on my forthcoming work Pressure Points: Twelve Global Issues Shaping the Face of the Church. While popular evangelical conversations and strategy shifts related to “unreached people groups” can be traced to 1974, the reality is that thirty-nine years later this matter continues to be a [...]
The Church and the Pressures of the Age
Today I begin a series of posts related to my forthcoming book Pressure Points: Twelve Global Issues Shaping the Face of the Church (Thomas Nelson). Lord willing, the book is to be released in July. Until then, I want to give you a glimpse of its contents. For a quick overview, see last month’s post [...]
Author Interview with Dave Brunn
I want to draw your attention to a new resource that was recently published, One Bible, Many Versions. Dave Brunn spent over 20 years in Papua New Guinea with New Tribes Mission serving among the Lamogai people through church planting, literacy training, and Bible translation. Among his works is a complete translation of the New [...]
Pressure Points: Twelve Global Issues Shaping the Face of the Church
Lord willing, my next book will be released this July. Pressure Points: Twelve Global Issues Shaping the Face of the Church (Thomas Nelson) addresses twelve of the most significant global issues influencing our mission. I wrote this work to call attention to these matters and make some general suggestions regarding how we should respond as [...]
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Strategy Development for a New Generation of Disciple Makers
Lord willing–this September–Baker will release the book Developing a Strategy for Missions: A Biblical, Historical, and Cultural Introduction. I am delighted to share this news with you. John Mark Terry and I co-authored this book as a part of the Encountering Mission series. In this post, I want to give you a bit of the [...]
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Time In
It has been three months since my last post. I am now in my third year of blogging, with this being by far the longest hiatus ever taken. Here is a brief update of the past few months, more details are planned to follow in future blog posts. As many of you know, last summer [...]
Strangers Next Door
I am excited and thankful to share that Strangers Next Door: Immigration, Migration, and Mission is now available! We live in the age of migration. 214 million people are presently living outside of their countries of birth. That is 3% of the world’s population. If this number represented a single country, then it would be [...]
Kingdom Expressions: Trends Influencing the Advancement of the Gospel
I am excited and thankful to share with you that my latest book has been released by Thomas Nelson. Kingdom Expressions: Trends Influencing the Advancement of the Gospel provides an overview of the most influential gospel advancing movements and trends in the latter 20th and early 21st centuries. Over a year ago, Thomas Nelson approached [...]
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Pressure Points: Twelve Global Issues Shaping the Face of the Church
I want to share with you some information on my next writing project. Pressure Points: Twelve Global Issues Shaping the Face of the Church is scheduled to be released this spring (Lord willing) with Thomas Nelson. This book addresses twelve of the most critical global issues influencing the advancement of the gospel across the nations [...]
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New book: Kingdom Expressions: Trends Influencing the Advancement of the Gospel
I am very excited and thankful to be able to share with you some information about my book that (Lord willing) will be released by Thomas Nelson this December. Kingdom Expressions: Trends Influencing the Advancement of the Gospel is a look at fourteen different movements and trends that have developed over the past several decades. [...]
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