I am not sure when I am going to get this out. I am too cheap to pay for Internet access here in Accra, Ghana, and I am too tired to go out and find an Internet café. This was written on Thursday, December 2nd. Sorry for the typos… Today we met at the offices [...]
…the fourth Caliph (Islamic leader) issued an edict to have all Qur’ans collected from around the Muslim world. They were to be burned and replaced with one authoritative Qur’an that was recited by one man, Zayed ibn Thabit.
Can Americans Teach Religion? Check out the following quote – warning, it hurts a bit! Americans themselves know all too well that their genius is not in religion… Americans are great people; there is no doubt about that. They are great in building cities and railroads, as ancient Babylonians were great in building towers and [...]
After yesterday's blog post on Missions Conferences, I thought I would put up a little poll. If you go to church, any kind of a church, look to the right and vote! – Ted
I am not much of a conference guy. Why then, am I involved in leading one? Conferences are, for the most part, going in two different directions. A generation ago, missions conferences held at local churches were the most common type of conference that the average evangelical would attend. These local church-based conferences are disappearing [...]
“Why should we expect them to act any differently?” A friend I know routinely reads the websites of the Muslim Brotherhood and similar, Islamic sites. The Gainesville, FL, church’s plan to burn Qurans on 9-11 has sparked a lot of debate on these sites, as you can imagine. Summarizing some of the sentiments, he noted [...]
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!
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 [...]
