Mission Hits - Recommended Resource
Recommended resource of monthly mailings featuring articles about mission and world Christianity.
Recommended resource of monthly mailings featuring articles about mission and world Christianity.
For Timothy Leadership Trainings, we do not pay for the costs for the participants who attend, and there are good reasons for this even though many of the participants are materially poor.
The four page structure of a sermon as taught at Calvin Seminary is very useful for beginning preachers, especially in a country like Uganda where there has been very little theological training for pastors.
A devotional about being generous and inspiring generosity in others, especially in our ministry as missionaries and development workers.
I'd like to suggest that, in many regions, starting more Bible colleges is not the most helpful approach, and in some cases it might actually hinder us from achieving our goal of educating more African pastors.
I suggest that one of the greatest challenges facing Africa today is that Christians have not had a truly transformed worldview, based on the Bible. Perhaps this is still a problem in America too!
Should we send "ordinary Christians" as missionaries? A major biblical theme is that God likes to use weak people, sinful people. But on the other hand, shouldn't missionaries be trained and well-prepared?
Whenever someone tells me I’ve really sacrificed, I almost feel guilty or like a fraud. Because even though I've left family and friends, God has provided me with so much and all my needs are met.
Sometimes when we teach, it’s easy to forget that students also have knowledge to offer to us.
This last Sunday I preached at Stephenville CRC because their pastor is on vacation. This church did not know me at all to begin with, but because I am an ordained Minister of the Word in the CRC, this church in Stephenville trusted me to come and declare God's Word to them and how it should convict them of sin, change their lives, and give them hope. Wow!...