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I'm so excited to share about the release of Upstream 's latest book, The Sending Church Applied , which I co-authored with Nathan Sloan,...

Have you ever woken up in a panic on the floor with people gathered around you? I have. It happened while I was a 25-year-old missionary...

When I was in third grade, my mother enrolled me in Children’s Bible Drill. It was certainly a well-titled activity. After hours of...

“Have you ever considered doing a Spanish translation of The Sending Church Defined ?” That’s how Michael Boze, pastor of missions at...

I breathe deeply and say over to myself: “You are at home; you are at home.” But a sense of strangeness will not leave me, I can find...

What do you say to a pastor after his sermon? Here’s a suggestion. Simply, “Thank you.” Even if it wasn’t a particularly good sermon, or...

I once had a turtle named Fred. Fred liked to eat watermelon. But I went on vacation and forgot to leave Fred any watermelon. When I came...

“I’m not a smart man, but I know what love is.” I can still hear those words in the voice of Tom Hanks, playing the beloved character...

In the previous article we walked through an overview of missions in the Old Testament. If you didn’t get a chance to reach it, I want to...

My life changed a few years ago when I saw my first “spark bird”. Do you know what a spark bird is? It’s the first bird that awakens you...

This article was originally delivered as part of pre-field training for missionary candidates. For this reason it is a longer read, so...

We do missions with mostly one side of our brains. And we don't even know it. Let me explain. There are two hemispheres or sides to the...

Originally delivered as a message for the Upstream Sending Church Gathering, this is a longer read. But you may find it worth your time...

In the year 2020 I had vision. Not that kind of vision, more of an image. I was standing alone on a stage and the church was packed....

In light of the print release of Lent and Missions: A 40-Day Devotional, which I co-authored with Nathan Sloan, this week I am posting an...

It is the season where readers are putting books on their new year's reading lists. So here are a few that I read in 2023 that are worthy...

“Thirty-one seconds before death.” This is author Brandon Sanderson’s way of ominously foreshadowing the inevitable, of giving insight...

One of the most important skills for thinking and acting like a missionary (or training others to do so) is contextualization. In fact,...

Liturgy usually gets a bad rap. For many Christians it is associated with empty religiosity, a form of insincere prayer. However, in...

Let’s be realistic. There are some legitimate reasons that missionaries struggle to have deep, abiding relationships with local churches....