Sitting in the IKEA cafeteria for our IFES team meeting today, we were discussing the most common objections we hear to the gospel among postmodern westerners - North Americans and Europeans. How can you believe in a God who allows so much evil in the world? How can you believe that a man (Jesus) is...

My dear friend and brother, Robert Odle, has written an excellent post that every committed Christian ought to read, digest and act upon.  You will find it here. Shall we seek to do what Jesus commanded, or shall we continue to be distracted by things he never mentioned or modeled?  Do yourself a ...

One of the missionaries I helped train, Elijah Peters, works with a team in Auckland.  He has written an exellent article, “One Solution,” that I recommend to all my readers.  It goes so well with my series, “The Jesus Method.”  See if you don’t agree.   &n...

Following the Sunday morning message through the Gospel of John, a member of the church I serve approached me and requested for me to clear up some unclear tension between Matthew 10:5-15 and John 4:1-42. I agreed to the task and then went home to read over the two texts to see what tension exists b...

  “I’ve got to meet the one man in Mexico who doesn’t drink!” said Jose, the pueblo’s mezcal (a.k.a. tequila) maker, referring to Mike. Apparently this man doesn’t get out of his pueblo much. His son Esteban, however, lives here in Huayapam, same little Zapot...

Are you ready to be interrupted by God in 2009? A challenge from Jeff Palomino: “God always works in the desert.â€�  An Army Chaplain said this to me two weeks into my Iraq deployment. The Chaplain was assigned to another Forward Operating Base (FOB) and only came to our FOB every other week...

Alan Wolfe writes: “It’s just part of a 200-year working out of ideas about personal autonomy and equality that are sort of built into the American experience. The notion that someone is going to burn in hell because they have their own beliefs is just not resonant within our larger poli...

        An interesting exchange took place last week between an anonymous missionary (non-SBC) presently serving in a Muslim country and a theologian at Liberty Theological Seminary.  A post entitled "My Pilgrimage" is hosted at SBCImpact and written by an anonymous missionary who calls hims...

What Is the Jesus Method? The religious community is getting a bad, but deserved, rap. We are known more for cursing the darkness than lighting a candle. Evangelicals have been writing books about the “end times� that attempt to scare the wax out people. They’ve been predicting doom and gloom ...

An astounding, must-read column from one of my favourite commentators, Matthew Parris: As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God. Parris grew up in what is now Malawi, and returned there recently. He went to see the work of Pump Aid, a secular charity which helps rural communities maintain cle...