“Don’t you think, Dr. McGilvary, that you spoke too directly or inflexibly to your audience? But again, your audience might not have been listening to your words, but watching your magnificent long white beard!” These words are from a letter from a living to a dead missionary. Kosuke Koyama had been in Northern Thailand for six years …
Category: Global Church & Missions
Recommended Resource: Global Transmission, Global Mission (Booklet)
Jason Mandryk of Operation World just published a 53 page booklet exploring the Impact and Implications of the CoVid-19 Pandemic. You can download it for free here and I think it is well worth your time. Here I give three reasons why I think you should take the time to read it, introduce the material, …
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Up and Rolling
When we landed in Cambridge last August, Samuel had never ridden a bike without training wheels. It wasn’t a matter of ability, it was just opportunity. As far as I know there is no hereditary issue of bad balance in the family, still, this was going to be tough. We had no budget for a …
Bringing Life & Mission Into Line
...let us be aware of the need to place our lives and activities continually under the judgment of the Word of God. We cannot simply assume that we have the truth and that everything else, including our evangelization and our ethics, will just fall in line with that truth. The purpose of theology is not …
“Please Don’t Go to Africa and Preach the Gospel…”
Timothy Tennent is the President of Asbury Theological Seminary and Professor of World Christianity. His books and courses were helpful to us as we prepared for our workshop on the Global Church. Listen carefully to how he describes the situation in much of African Christianity: "The problem is, in terms of sheer money allocation and …
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Cardboard Fires and Colossians 3:16
You cannot cook on a cardboard fire. If you are going to cook, you need coals. I remember setting up gloriously useless cardboard fires when I was a kid. We would build a sort of cardboard city or castle, start the blaze in a corner, and enjoy the show. It was a spectacular but worthless …
It Is Too Small A Thing…
Most Canadians know about fresh-air-in-the-car day. It is that glorious day in the Spring when you can drive with the car windows open again. It is a relief from months where all the breathable oxygen comes through stale heat vents and your own foggy breath frosts up the windshield. Our vehicle has a sun roof. So …
Standing on a Globe and Counting to Six
A big part of my switch from pastoral ministry into joining SIM came from learning to count while standing on a globe. After finishing Bible School in 2003, I moved directly to Burtts Corner. I began as the Assistant Pastor of Cornerstone Bible Church in the fall. Cornerstone is a wonderful church and it is …
Too Small A Thing 