One reason I have dedicated my life to overseas mission work is the inspiration and challenge of those who have come before me. Particularly, the legacy missionaries of the past whose great biographies have withstood the test of time. Periodically, I find great encouragement in returning to some of these stories. To The Golden Shore: […]
Financial maturity in church leaders is one of the most important areas of leadership, and also one of the most rarely discussed. You would be hard pressed to find a seminary class on financial management, yet along with time management, a pastor’s financial mismanagement is one of the foremost causes of church conflict – and […]
Whether a missionary, pastor, or some other role in Christian ministry, all those who have served the church in some way can attest to crossing the bridge of decision. After years of faithful service in East Asia, our expulsion this last year brought me to this bridge once again. In this blog I will share […]
I recently wrote a blog for China Source and wanted to include the link here for any of you who are interested.
Some have tried to pit the person-of-peace model at odds with relational evangelism. However, this is a monstrous misunderstanding. There are two keys to understanding how these two models work together. The first is distinguishing the difference between filtering and funneling. While filtering is focused primarily on entering and targeting a new city, town, people […]
In preparation to move my family to Paris, I was pleased to pick up The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed. Veteran authors and journalists Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoît Nadeau moved to Paris with their two daughters to spend a year in 2013-2014 researching the cultural and linguistic ques a family like […]
Throughout history’s story China has predominantly taken the place of a powerful regional influencer. Only in the past couple of hundred years did China find itself on the bottom instead of on top of the game, and she has never had any intention to stay there. The past 50 years have proven China’s determination to […]
Modern America looks a lot like the days before Communism gained a firm foothold in the Soviet Bloc nations. This is Rod Dreher’s main proposal in his 2020 release Live Not by Lies. In this journalistically styled warning cry Dreher proposes that, “under the guise of ‘diversity,’ ‘inclusivity,’ ‘equity,’ and other egalitarian jargon, the Left […]
One highlight of returning back to America to visit friends and family is Christian radio. Although while overseas I am grateful for the modern age and the host of Christian messages and podcasts available online, but there is something that sends a smile trekking across my face when I randomly turn on broadcast radio and […]
How have we arrived at the specific place we are now as a culture and as a contagious western people? A place where the statement, “I am a woman trapped in a man’s body,” makes sense to so many. This is the question Carl Truman begins with in his watershed book, The Rise and Triumph […]