Our starting point for missions has to be God. In fact, our starting point for anything has to be God. But, it can’t just be some made up twenty-first century God. It has to be the God of the Bible. Have we considered recently whether...
The 30-Day Challenge: Encountering the Missionary Heart of God During the summer of 2017 Kristen and I were challenged to read the book of Romans 20 times and then write out the entire book by hand. This occurred at a family camp in Montana in the...
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Saint-Domingue, once called the “Pearl of the Antilles” was the richest colony in the French empire during the 1700s. By the late 1700s, it produced 40 percent of all the sugar and 60 percent of all the coffee consumed in Europe. While it was only...
Last week in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine several of our trained Storyline facilitators met with a group of students to inspire them to join God in His story. The story of God's global purpose to redeem people from every nation, people, tribe, and language. Countries like Ukraine are beginning...
The West Indies is a place where European Empires waged wars for over 400 years. These islands are rich in history, natural resources, and most importantly rich cultures. The island of Tobago changed hands 33 times between European powers between 1498 to 1814. As much...
Emmanuel, God with us. For me, it took a flight over the Sahara desert to a church at the end of a dirt road in Kampala, Uganda to hear the word “unreached.” A tattered map was tacked to the front of the church, pointing to the...
What does Jesus say about Mobilization? Today, the word mobilization has become a buzzword in evangelical missions. Rightly so, I would argue. But why is it then that mission engagement in the western church is at historically low levels? Ed Stetzer, in his Christianity Today article,...
Most Christians, when they discover God’s heart for the nations as revealed through the Scriptures, experience a radical shift in the way they view the world. When you grapple with the immense needs of nations who have no Bible, no churches, and no missionaries, it...
School buses are fully awake after summer’s hibernation, while day-by-day brown overtakes the lush green corn fields, unveiling the promise of an approaching harvest. It is autumn in the Midwest. The Caribbean may be a region of forever summer, yet spiritually in Trinidad and Tobago...