Envisioning Effective Ministry: Evangelism in a Muslim Context

I want to share with you another book that you need to add to your library.  Envisioning Effective Ministry: Evangelism in a Muslim Context is hot off the press.  It is the best of the best EMQ articles on what you need to know about ministering to Muslims.  My friends Laurie Fortunak Nichols and Gary Corwin have edited this collection that [...]

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In this post, I want to share with you a few helpful books that I’ve come across in my research in the area of diaspora missiology. To the majority of you reading this post, the words “diaspora missiology” are new.  This growing category of missiology is the study related to the intersection of the global [...]

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I want to bring to your attention a new resource that needs to be added to your library.  Linda J. Weber has edited the latest edition of Mission Handbook: U. S. and Canadian Protestant Ministries Overseas.  This work was published through the Evangelism and Missions Information Service (EMIS) at the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College.  [...]

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I am writing this post at the conclusion of July 20, 2010.  It is amazing that I have been able to go throughout my entire day, even watching the news this morning, and not hear of any mention of the fact that on July 20, 1969 man first walked on the moon.  As a kid, [...]

Read More About - One Small Step…One Giant Leap…for Kingdom Advancement »

I am about to enter into two intensive weeks of summer classes.  Next week, I plan to be teaching Church Planting Models, followed by Church Multiplication Strategies.  Since my models class is on my mind at the moment, I have decided to do a couple of posts on the topic. We live in an age of model mania–a [...]

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In this post, I do not wish to be an alarmist, nor do I want to create a work of fiction and claim it to be a reality.  I do want to be proactive and begin a conversation. For sometime, I have been concerned over something that I believe will become a very serious issue in the [...]

Read More About - C5 Contextualization: Coming to a North American People Group Near You? »

Lord willing, over the next few days, I will have the privilege to speak to some of the world’s most influential people:  campus ministers and college students.  On Saturday, I plan to be in Columbus, Ohio and on Monday and Tuesday in Louisville, Kentucky, interacting with such groups.  While the locations and audiences will differ, [...]

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(Okay, I know that this is my second post today.  But I’m leaving for vacation, abstaining from blogging, tweeting, and yes, email.  Therefore, I wanted to get this posted today.) One of the many blessings of serving with the faculty of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is the fellowship with the faculty of The Southern Baptist [...]

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Over this past week, I have posted about issues related to urban missions.  While I hope to do more in the future, I wanted to conclude this series by addressing a matter that I believe is a critical missing link to urban missions today, particularly in western contexts.  This issue is the missing element of [...]

Read More About - Apostolic Missionaries and the Urban Contexts »

Being one of the bloggers with Cape Town 2010 Blogger Network, I wanted to offer some feedback to Tim Keller’s recent paper, “What is God’s Global Urban Mission,” posted at Lausanne.org, as an advance paper for Cape Town 2010. I have been very thankful for Keller and his commitment to solid biblical teaching, urban environments, and church planting. I [...]

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