Posts tagged missions

I recently celebrated my birthday. I won’t give you the date or the year. I also won’t provide the internet with my mother’s maiden name …

Pocketing God’s Promises is a practical podcast of Gospel Fellowship Association Missions that exalts the God who sustained previous generations of His servants and encourages believers …

St. Eustatius, Lesser Antilles, February 1739: Pen in hand, the thirty-eight-year-old German scratched a few stanzas on rough paper as he looked over the Caribbean …

Overview Why would a young Christian couple move to Lebanon in the 1990s? Why would they stay in the Middle East after the terrorist attacks …

In cultural analysis, some values loom like black holes—the entire constellation of cultural values and concerns orbit around a single, dominating principle. And for North …

Overview No study of missions is complete without reading a biography of Amy Carmichael, missionary to India. Among the published options available today, Elisabeth Elliot’s …

The word syncretism isn’t in the Bible. It refers to mixing two things together that aren’t meant to be mixed, resulting in something entirely different. …

Overview Just last week, I stood at the grave of William Borden in Cairo, Egypt. The famous quote that describes his life is inscribed across …

“We can’t plant a church there. We don’t have sponsorship and funding to do things for people to get them to come to church. No …

Is it legitimate to use Jesus and the accounts of His ministry as a pattern for cross-cultural missions? If a missionary understands that following Jesus …