This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Lausanne Movement. Evangelicals throughout the world are planning to gather for the fourth congress in Seoul. Earlier today I participated in the movement’s release of the “State of the Great Commission Report.” This precursor to September’s gathering is to provide an account […]
Persecution
National Geographic Documentary Films is scheduled to release The Mission next week in the US and Canada. This film is about John Chau who was killed in 2018 when attempting to share the gospel with a North Sentinel Island people group. His death made international headlines. Of course, the world […]
National Geo. “The Mission” – Death of John Chau
Philosophy advocates if something is true, then the opposite of that something is false. Such is the law of non-contradiction in the realm of logic. While the present mood pushes against this longstanding value (“only a Sith deals in absolutes”), much of society wants such to be true but refuses […]
A Powerful Apologetic for the Western World
Well, the day has arrived. Earlier this month, I shared I would be hitting the pause button here at the blog. Over the past 12 years I have done this before, but never in an official way, for such a lengthy period of time, and to the extent as planned. […]
See You in August. . . Lord Willing
Open Doors just released their annual report on the top 50 countries where “it is most difficult to follow Jesus.” Be sure to check out their web site and get a copy of the report. Who made the top five this year? Afghanistan North Korea Somalia Libya Yemen Here are […]
World Watch List 2022
The first Sunday in November marks the Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. On this special episode of Strike the Match, Dr. Gregory Cochran is my guest. Greg is a professor of theology at California Baptist University and author of Christians in the Crosshairs: Persecution in the Bible and […]
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