Articles for Outreach & Missions

Tithe: Four Spheres That Need Your Financial Gifts

These New Testament passages illustrate giving to four groups to advance the gospel—the local church, family, the poor and missions.

5 Essential Steps in Planting a Church or Launching a Ministry

Through the years I have been asked hundreds of times about what I would say are the critical steps in planting or launching a...

The Mainstreaming of Sexual Fluidity

A recent U.K. study revealed that nearly half of all young people don’t think they are exclusively heterosexual.

Christ’s Terms for Discipleship

Many popular teachings emphasizing prosperity, success and self-fulfillment have paid too little attention to cross-bearing as a necessary condition for Christian discipleship.

Our Only Hope for the Unborn

The news headlines about abortion are nearly too numerous to track and too bizarre to comprehend. It is becoming clear that major players in...

American Christians, You Might Need to Start Living Like Missionaries

If something bothers me, I will wait to make a judgment until I have considered what the Bible says about it.

How Self-Proclaimed Two-Faced Hypocrites Are a Credit to Christianity

One of the most bothersome and refreshing things about the Bible is all the screw-ups that are in there, whom God loves nonetheless.

The REAL Wisdom We All Need

The summary of my story is this: I can’t make it through this life on my own. Contrary to all my human grappling to...