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It’s ten o’clock. Do you know what your missionaries are doing?

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Today I was sent a link to an excellent overview on the current state of affairs regarding contextualization by Christians in their outreach to Muslims.  It is by Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo and is entitled, "Recent Changes in Christian Approaches to Islam."  it's a pretty good writeup of the history of the issue.  It is critical [...]

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Liar! Liar! The current missiological debate on contextualization rages on…

Friday, March 5th, 2010

There is a lot of communication happening on the “contextualization” front. For some years, some missionaries have been using ministry forms which are highly indigenous in nature and rely on sources from within other religious traditions to make their case.  Others have been highly critical of this approach.  This dialogue has a language all its [...]

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Truth or Scare?

Monday, May 4th, 2009

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Caught With My Zipper (Racially) Down

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Last week I had the privilege of being the chapel speaker at Dallas Theological Seminary. I was asked to present my “Status of the Gospel” presentation in which I use a number of Google Earth demographic maps, images, and statistics to talk about the global growth of Christianity. It was similar to the [...]

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The Question

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

When the crowd is gone, and it’s just me and a couple of pastors (usually the senior pastor and the missions pastor) standing around talking after a meeting or service I often get asked, ‘The Question.’ I was just asked ‘The Question’ about three weeks while I was in Minnesota (to be fair, it [...]

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The Coming Evangelical Missions Meltdown… or?

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Michael Spencer is, I am sure, getting lots of traffic to his blog these days over a recent article entitled, “The Coming Evangelical Collapse.” The article appear on the Christian Science Monitor and got mac-daddy exposure on The Drudgereport.
The basic premise of this article is that Evangelicalism, because of its ascendence into a [...]

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Echso-Text: 22 Christian Families Executed in Afghanistan

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

I heard about it first on Thursday, February 26th, 2009 in the late afternoon. I was out cleaning up my minivan after an unusually messy week of kids, pop cans, and candy bar wrappers when my blackberry buzzed. A colleague was emailing me that 22 Christian families were being executed in Aghanistan and [...]

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Very Cool Visualizations

Monday, July 28th, 2008

If you are wondering where the unreached are, look no further than a set of visualizations on the web site Many Eye’s. These are produced by a mysterious “harnie….”

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Missions Catalyst

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Here’s the latest feed from Missions Catalyst! For more details, click here!
Missions Catalyst e-Magazine is a free, weekly electronic missions digest designed to inspire and equip Christians worldwide for global ministry. Please use it for your prayers, pass along what you learn to others, and forward this edition to anyone you think might be interested.
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Missions Catalyst

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Here’s the latest feed from Missions Catalyst! For more details, click here!
Missions Catalyst e-Magazine is a free, weekly electronic missions digest designed to inspire and equip Christians worldwide for global ministry. Please use it for your prayers, pass along what you learn to others, and forward this edition to anyone you think might be interested.
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