Articles for Outreach & Missions

Using the Coronavirus for Missions Training

This post suggests 7 ways you can use the coronavirus quarantine for missions training. Even if you have no plans on moving cross-culturally, your ability to understand the missionary life will increase your empathy and equip you to maintain a more missional lifestyle.

I Thought Christians Were Stupid Bigots

It's stupid to pretend like what the Bible is saying isn’t true just because it’s inconvenient

Easter Faith Amid a Pandemic

Isn’t that what this pandemic is teaching us again? It’s decency that matters. Kindness. Community. Interdependence, not independence is what makes healing possible. We are interconnected, so let’s live like it.

Does Art Matter in a Pandemic?

The point is not about the particular worthiness of the National Endowment for the Arts, but about the self-evidently unimportant nature of art in general, which is obscured in times of wealth and ease but exposed during crisis.

A Love Story of a Different Kind

From the very beginning of their marriage, God was telling a love story. This love story didn’t come with a notebook, no chalet with a veranda. This was a love story of a different kind.

6 Reasons Christians Struggle With Grace

Until you see Jesus through the lens of grace, your image of Him will be incomplete.

Marriage Isn’t About Your Happiness

Marriage happiness can be elusive. Plus, marriage isn't about your happiness, it's not even about you. It's about LOVE, which is something we choose to give time and time again.

5 Key Differences Between Church Shoppers and the Unchurched

While it’s easy to think of a visitor as simply a "visitor," not all visitors are the same.