Articles for Outreach & Missions

I’ve been thinking about people I’ve known over the years who were dramatically changed by the power of the gospel—and I want you to know some of their stories.

"Halloween's history is checkered, but its opportunity is right now."

"I shall not turn my life into a thin, straight line which prefers abstractions to reality."

Just as a busy person or family struggles to invest in important relationships, a busy church keeps God’s people from important relationships with the broader community.

I contend that God is, in His Trinitarian self, an orderly community of selfless love. And we are made in His image for this purpose: to create, sustain and extend orderly communities of selfless love across the globe.

There are so many questions that can swirl up when people face this difficulty, so I’d like to give you five reminders for when the one who led you to Christ walks away.

I love Jesus. I love God. I love people. But I don’t love packaged Christian answers. They tie everything up in a nice, neat bow and make life a little too tidy.

So why are there so few single men in missions, or in the missions pipeline? The most common answers are: pornography, student debt, and bad dating choices. Pornography is chewing at the root of the church, so it is no surprise that the effects are being felt in the Great Commission effort as well.