Free E-Book: Leading Your Church in Church Planting
Few churches in North America are involved in church planting. I want to be involved in changing this unfortunate reality. Today, I am releasing my latest e-book Leading Your Church in Church Planting: Taking the First Steps. This 62-page work is designed to encourage and provide some guidance for pastors considering such missionary work. While [...]
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John Stott and Global Missions
John Stott passed away today in London. According to a post released by Christianity Today , he died “after complications related to old age.” His influence was (and remains) enormous, well beyond detailed description in this blog post. For example, just consider his numerous publications. Since this blog is about global missions, I wish to [...]
The Past in Review
Summer is here. And along with summer comes vacation. In light of my plans to experience rest and family and refrain from blogging, I thought I would leave you with a few of my previous posts from the past year-and-a-half. That way, whenever you are having problems sleeping over the next several days, you can [...]
Thank You!
It has been over a year since I started this blog. In today’s post, I want to say thank you for your encouragement and share a little about the site. Check out the video below:
It’s a Small World
Of course, when my family and I visited Mouse-Land over Spring Break, we had to ride “It’s a Small World”–twice. My socio-anthropological tendencies helped make this attraction worth the $50,000 price tag to visit the Magic Kingdom. “It’s a Small World” satisfied my multicultural desires for the day. While I am not certain that Disney [...]
Innovation in Missions
Last week, my family and I visited Epcot in Orlando. It had been several years since my previous visit. We had a great time on the rides and visiting the World Showcase area in the park. One particular attraction caught my imagination. Spaceship Earth–the ride that is found within the golf-ball-looking structure at the park’s [...]
4 Steps to Get Us Started: A Call for More and Better Urban Research-Part 6
If you have kept up with this series, you will recall that I have used the limitations in my own research to point to the need for more and better urban research in the United States and Canada. And while I have attempted to keep the focus on the urban context, the reality is that [...]
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Change the Atmosphere, Change the Culture
Yesterday, in Alpharetta, Georgia, Dr. Ed Stetzer spoke to the leadership of the North American Mission Board. While I was in Louisville and unable to be present, I caught a tweet that @NAMB_SBC attributed to Stetzer: “Creating a culture of multiplication is one of the hardest things we have to do as a denomination.” I [...]
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U. S. Hispanic Count Larger Than Expected
This morning I received a press release from the Pew Hispanic Center, confirming an important finding. The number of Hispanics counted in the 2010 United States census is larger than expected in several states. The data have not yet been released for every state. You may obtain the report HERE. The greatest differences between the [...]
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Does a Loving God Send People to Hell? – Part 2
Today, I take up in the second part of this series. Make sure you go back and read part one to get the context. You can find part one HERE. The excerpt below is a continuation of the chapter, “Does a Loving God Send People to Hell?” found in Evangelism: A Biblical Response to Today’s [...]
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