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 [...]
106 Representatives of Unengaged-Unreached Peoples in the United States
One of the convictions we share as a pastoral staff team serving The Church at Brook Hills is the need to integrate the worlds of domestic and international. Believing it to be biblical, we try to operate from a missiology that blurs the lines between home and abroad, domestic and foreign, while recognizing the need [...]
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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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Unengaged Peoples in the United States
The term “unengaged” is a recent label developed to assist with our Great Commission task. According to Global Research, a people group is described as unengaged “when there is no church planting methodology consistent with Evangelical faith and practice under way. A people group is not engaged when it has been merely adopted, is the [...]
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 [...]
Leaders Tell Well the Magnificent Tales
It is often good for leaders to refrain from sharing everything. Some things need to remain untold. However, when the omission relates to the magnificent, tongues must be loosened and lips unbridled. This is the tale that is critical to reality, and deserves dissemination to a wide audience. When leaders fail to tell such a [...]
566 Native Tribes in the United States
November is recognized by the United States government as American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month. Earlier this week, the latest numbers were released on the 566 tribes in this country. For the past three years, I have written about Native Americans (First Nations if in Canada) here at the blog. According to one estimate, [...]
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