I am excited to announce that To the Edge: Reflections on Kingdom Leadership, Mission, and Innovation is now available for Kindle. . . and one day before the promised release date! For those of you who pre-ordered a copy, you have probably received an email from Kindle saying that the […]
Yearly Archives: 2015
Tentmaking is as old as Acts 18, but somehow it remains a foreign concept to most evangelicals. Here is a video from the International Mission Board that is worth four minutes of your time. Nothing fancy or flashy here. Just a simple call and a transferable skill to a different […]
Working Your Way to the Nations
My thirteen-year-old daughter beat me in a game of H.O.R.S.E. tonight. As a parent, I’m okay with this. Parents want to see their children grow, change, and surpass them. Parenting is about planned role changes. And while we are comfortable with such development, change, and shifting roles in the home, […]
Planned Role Changes
You can do a great deal in seventeen hours. And until last week, you could make the longest, non-stop flight in the world from Dallas to Sydney. But now. . . Emirates has stepped up to the plate to provide a non-stop, 17.5 hour flight between Dubai and Panama City. […]
That’s a lot of Peanuts and Pretzels
In C. Peter Wagner’s book, Church Planting for a Greater Harvest, he offers five “chief reasons” why we should plant churches. The second reason on the list is that church planting is a means to denominational survival. Many denominations in North America agree with this point. And with many denominations in […]
Why Denominations Should not Focus on Unreached People Groups
Patrick Johnstone’s leadership has been very significant among evangelicals for many years. It is a delight to have Patrick as my guest on this episode of Strike the Match. We discuss the history of Operation World, his latest books (Pray for the World, The Future of the Global Church, and Serving God […]
English