Last week I took a small, rhetorical swipe at Mark Driscoll. I came across this clip, and I sure like it. Too bad he didn't take his challenge a bit further and say, "We need people who will start a church in their house." In any case, thanks, Mark! Tweet This Post
Where are the men? This past week I have gotten a few emails about Mark Driscoll's article in The Washington Post about boys who essentially never grow up and turn into men. He writes: Rather than moving from boy to man by this succession of sociological transitions, we've created something called adolescence. It's a third [...]
[Note: This is an article I wrote in 2001 which I recently came across on my hard drive. Amazing how much of it still holds true today!] Top-of-the-food-chain carnivores are never popular with others in the food-chain. Wolves, for example, used to roam North America in great numbers. Feared predators, they were able to sustain [...]
Pioneers USA mobilizes new workers for the global Christian movement – part of my job here is to assist in this task. Next year we want to significantly expand our recruitment, by a full one third. The question is, how? You be the boss: How would you direct this increase in mobilization? Increasing prayer is [...]
If you were Chinese, what religion is a better political option for you? Buddhism, Christianity, or Islam? Yesterday I had a conversation with somebody who has been living and working in China for the past ten years or so. We were talking about the incredible growth of the church there. I asked him [...]
Ed Stetzer has a great article on denominationalism in the recent Christianity Today. You can read the article by clicking here. I welcome Ed and the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) to Orlando, my home town, for the week. I hope you enjoy it – it's supposed to be a hot one! Stetzer's main point is [...]
There has been a lot of energy directed at business as mission (BAM) strategies over the past few years. Book after book, conference upon conference, Internet sites, and national speakers all point toward the coming era of Christian mission in which BAM will be the dominate strategy. The agency that I work for, Pioneers, is [...]
Thanks to Ed Stetzer for tweeting my attention to this article in the Christian Post and for the research behind it. It highlights that most Protestant Pastors are with Franklin Graham regarding their views on Islam. Some key findings include: – Three out of 4 pastors disagree with the statement, “Christians and Muslims pray to [...]
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I recently finished reading Mosab Hassan Yousef's book, Son of Hamas. Based on a true story first recounted in the Jerusalem Post, I highly recommend it. This book is written by the son of Hamas founder Hassan Yousef. Hassan Yousef was one of a handful of Muslim leaders who founded Hamas as a means to [...]
Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity by Mark A. Noll
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