I am pleased to share with you that Developing a Strategy for Missions (co-authored with John Mark Terry) is now available in Korean. When I served as a seminary professor at Southern Seminary from 2002-2012, I was both surprised and delighted to see the number of first generation Korean students […]
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Dean Merrill, collaborating with Patrick Johnstone, recently published Serving God in Today’s Cities: Facing the Challenge of Urbanization. This book is a great introduction to our urban world and ministry today. Three percent of the world’s population lived in cities in 1800. By 2100, 90% of the global population will […]
Serving God in Today’s Cities
We have better information on unreached people groups living in the most remote places of the world than we do of those same groups living in the United States and Canada. We know the world; we do not know our neighborhood. I recently spoke with Dr. Bryan Galloway, Senior Research […]
Discovering and Engaging Unreached Peoples in North America
I have never promoted an app on my blog. However, I now want to direct your attention to one. We must be both students of God’s Word and God’s world. And one of the best ways to know what is going on in His world is to keep up with […]
How to Consume Global News Quickly
I recently spoke at the Empowered Conference hosted by the Southern Baptist Convention of Virginia. It was a wonderful time with the brothers and sisters from around the state. I was encouraged to hear what the Spirit is doing through their Kingdom labors. My assignment: share from my book Strangers […]
Reaching the Strangers Next Door
We are living in a time when the greatest number of Muslims are coming to faith. Last year, David Garrison noted this reality in his book A Wind in the House of Islam: How God is Drawing Muslims around the World to Faith in Jesus Christ. David traveled over 250,000 […]