You may notice in the sidebar I added a presumptous little link to my amazon wishlist. It is a modest list of books I am itching to have but that budget won’t allow. Here are a few of the reasons why you might want to buy me a book or two. You love me. You [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Show a Little Love
Posted in Things I Like, preaching on November 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Story from the feild
Posted in International Missions on November 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As I mentioned in a previous post I am in Memphis stratagizing with some missionaries from the Pacific Rim about our upcoming work in Bali. Today a missionary to Myanmar (aka Burma) told me the following story. The story reminded me the reality of Satan’s activity against God’s elect. I was working in a remote [...]
The American Church Research Project
Posted in Church Planting on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Interesting data to compel us to continue what Keller calls the the “vigorous, continual planting of new congregations”. Read more at theamericanchurch.org
Two Islands, One Message
Posted in Church Planting, International Missions on November 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“The LORD reigns, let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad!” -Psalm 97:1 I have a 6am flight tomorrow… headed to Memphis for a few days to stratagize and pray with some missionaries to Indonesia. Pillar has committed to spend the next five years focusing our international church planting on work in Reykjavik, [...]
Short Term Trips go Awry
Posted in International Missions on November 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I have been thinking about mission trips a lot since I read THIS ARTICLE. Since becoming a Christian I have been exposed to hundreds of mission projects. Early on I was taught that the term “missions” can have scores of definitions. It could mean kindness to others, traveling far away places, handing out tracks and [...]