The Great Commission in 3D Speaking about the importance of missionary work in the nineteenth century, the great British missionary Hudson Taylor once said that “the great commission was [...]
The Mission of God in the City from Jacques Ellul to Amos As we analyze Jacques Ellul’s book, The Meaning of the City, we are able to obtain a Biblical and panoramic perspective about the [...]
Public Bus Missiology Have you ever had a moment where the Word of God simply opens up before your eyes? I will never forget the day when I was sitting on the back of public bus in Athens – [...]
3 Prisms: World, Religion and Grace The main point of Christianity is to get to a point where Christ is everything. Christ is the beginning and the end. Christ is the blessing. Christ is the [...]
If you follow this blog you may have recognized a trend in rethinking church and theology from a global perspective. This post continues on the same sequence. However, I now shift to thinking of [...]
As our understanding of human development advances and reshapes the traditional views of what makes men and women similar yet different, theological studies have also taken it into account when [...]
Consumerism and the Church It has been said that we live in the age of consumption and excess. This consumption goes far beyond simple materialism. It reaches into the very fabric of our culture [...]
Globalization, Human Trafficking and Social Justice My latest blog posts have been concerned with elements that I deem important for the Global Church in the context of globalization and [...]
How the Old Testament is Relevant Today Welcome avid reader. This is the first in a series of three posts on what the Church needs to know about the Old Testament. This series came about as an [...]
How to Read the Old Testament This is the second in a series of three posts on what I thing the Church needs to know about the Old Testament. My last post touched on how Christ and the early [...]
How to Continue the Old Testament Story Today This is the third and final post in our series on important things the church needs to know about the Old Testament. In the first post I touched on [...]
The Child and the Captain There was a child that by his on his tenth birthday came to his father and said: “Daddy, I would like to know the ocean.” His father, turning to him replied: [...]
The last century has provided the greatest shift and growth that Christianity has ever experienced. For the first time in history, Christianity is more prevalent in the developing world. Social [...]
Interpreting Scripture Historically The last century has provided significant paradigm shifts in the field of Biblical interpretation and theology. The first shift occurred in the Western world [...]
Interpreting Scripture Contextually If the Old Testament served as the historical basis on which Jesus and the apostles understood God’s revelation, the New Testament served to solidify the new [...]