Articles for Outreach & Missions

If Your Church Closed Its Doors, Would the Neighborhood Care?

I want to talk about why Millennials are fleeing the church in droves.

Race Matters: Why We Must Send More Missionaries of Color

According to recent estimates, African Americans comprise as few as 1 percent of international missionaries

4 Ways to Show You’re Really ‘In Love’ with Your Spouse

God wants you to fall in love with the person you’ll wind up spending the rest of your life with. But he also wants your love to grow into something solid and timeless – something more steady and reliable than mere human emotion.

What It’s Like to Follow Jesus in North Korea

North Korea is the most dangerous place on earth to be a Christian. But despite this, being a Christian in North Korea is not a rarity.

Three Unchanging Truths for a Post-Truth World

In a morally confused, philosophically complex, theologically vacuous culture, we now get to see how much we’ve always needed the supernaturality and truths of Christianity.

The Gospel According to Essential Oils

We have traded the Holy Spirit for bottles of plant juice. We have added to the gospel through smells and scents, and promised those we lead that joy is found in something you apply to your skin and not something that happens to your heart.

5 Ways to Fight Sin

Trying to tame sin rather than killing it is as silly as people making pets out of predatory animals. Check out these 5 ways to fight sin.

Gallup Research: What Keeps People Coming Back to Church Week After Week Isn’t the Cool Music

According to the findings of a Gallup study, the people in our congregations are coming back week after week because of the sermons, and there are a couple key things they are looking for in those sermons.