The Best Broken Missiology Books of 2023
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...
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- Jan 4
- 8 min
Missionaries, Don't Ignore the Countdown to Damnation
“Thirty-one seconds before death.” This is author Brandon Sanderson’s way of ominously foreshadowing the inevitable, of giving insight...
- Dec 27, 2023
- 4 min
Moving Upstream: December 2023 Newsletter
This was a milestone month as we completed almost seven years of pastoral ministry at Antioch Church and entered a new season as the...
- Jul 3, 2023
- 12 min
Writing a Contextualized Gospel Story
One of the most important skills for thinking and acting like a missionary (or training others to do so) is contextualization. In fact,...
- Jun 27, 2023
- 14 min
How to Write a Sending Benediction
Liturgy usually gets a bad rap. For many Christians it is associated with empty religiosity, a form of insincere prayer. However, in...
- Jun 12, 2023
- 4 min
The Sent One Defined: A Healthy Posture Toward the Local Church, Part Two
Let’s be realistic. There are some legitimate reasons that missionaries struggle to have deep, abiding relationships with local churches....
- Jun 5, 2023
- 4 min
What Global Terrorism Means for the Sending Church
Thursday, January 6, 2015 Two gunmen enter the office of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine in Paris, France, killing twelve people...
- May 29, 2023
- 4 min
The Sent One Defined: A Healthy Posture Toward the Local Church, Part One
If we love Christ, then we will love his bride. This is the legacy of the man whom Jesus himself said there was none greater: John the...
- May 15, 2023
- 5 min
Then They Spit in His Face: A Good Friday Reflection
A young Christian in East Africa was walking home from the countryside where he was sharing the gospel with his family. Suddenly he was...
- May 8, 2023
- 4 min
Jesus of the Scars: A Good Friday Reflection
Scars are an interesting thing, aren’t they? We all have them. Most of them are hidden; many of them are invisible. Whether they come...
- May 1, 2023
- 4 min
Become a Sending Parent
On Sunday, I’ll be handing out arrows. Two sets of parents will come forward. They’ll stand before the church holding newborns. I’ll say...
- Dec 19, 2022
- 4 min
Make Your Church a Harbor for Returning Missionaries
Paul Bäumer was a ghost when he left the trenches of World War I. Returning to his family and town, which had changed little, he was...
- Nov 14, 2022
- 3 min
Why Every Church Member Needs Glasses: Fostering a Missional Lens
I started wearing glasses in the fourth grade. The optometrist whispered to my mom, “He’s nearsighted in one eye, farsighted in the...
- Nov 7, 2022
- 4 min
So You Wanna Be a Missionary—Who Are You Discipling?
I love the enthusiasm I encounter among aspiring missionaries. It drips from them like water from your hands when there are no paper...
- Oct 31, 2022
- 2 min
A Liturgy When a Loved One is Ailing Back Home
Father, when first I set sail on this life in another land, I believed your promise, that for every house brother sister father mother...
- Oct 17, 2022
- 4 min
The Collective Sending Potential of Smaller Churches
Luke Holmes (@lukeholmes) is the pastor of First Baptist Church of Tishomingo, Oklahoma. Never heard of it? No surprise. Neither had...
- Oct 11, 2022
- 3 min
How Missions Convictions Decrease Decision Fatigue
In this article I want to convince you of two things: that missions decisions can exhaust you, and that missions convictions can refresh...
- Oct 3, 2022
- 5 min
Why Christians Are More Than Just Senders or Goers
Over the past decade, John Piper’s categorical way of thinking about missions and the local church has invigorated countless people....
- Sep 26, 2022
- 10 min
Helping Sent Ones Navigate Culture Shock
Culture shock, day 1 of 1,095. On my first day as a missionary, while riding from the airport to my new home in the obscurities of East...
- Aug 22, 2022
- 4 min
A Church Plant Can Be a Sending Church
Recently, I was on a personal retreat at a nearby monastery. With my Bible and journal in hand, I tiptoed away to the surrounding knobby...
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