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Three Key Strategies for Effectively Reaching Gen Z

January 24, 2024

Drop the formulas and assume the posture of a listener. God is having a conversation with everyone that you meet, even if they are not aware. Your role is to catch up on that conversation and keep it moving toward Jesus.


The Future of Protestantism in Hispanic America

January 19, 2024

23 Million Protestant Hispanic Americans While looking at demographic data for Latinos/as in the United States, I found two numbers that hit me like a 98-mile-an-hour pitch (pardon my baseball reference, but I am currently […]


To Testify…

January 5, 2024

Because of the decline in Christendom in the modern world, some people outside the faith deem overt expressions of Christianity inappropriate or unacceptable. This makes sharing our faith in a secular workplace or other secular […]


Advent Devotional: Matthew 1:18-20

December 21, 2023

“Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit. And Joseph, […]


Advent Devotional: Luke 2:6-7

December 21, 2023

“While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in clothes and placed him in a manger, because there […]


Advent Devotional: Galatians 4:4-5

December 14, 2023

“But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.” Galatians 4:4-5 […]


Advent Devotional: Jeremiah 33:14-16

December 8, 2023

“Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will fulfill the good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and the house of Judah. In those days and at that time […]


Who Can Be Called, and What Are We Called to Do?

November 21, 2023

In 2017, I joined a group of Christian anthropologists, missiologists and theologians to produce the book, “On Knowing Humanity: Insights from Theology for Anthropology.” My contributing chapter was titled, “Calling: Implications of the Transcendent for […]


Why Does God Allow Suffering and Evil?

June 2, 2022

Pandemics. Cancer. Tornadoes. Crime. War. The challenge of reconciling suffering and evil with belief in an all-good, all-powerful God is the perennial problem of evil. Although humanity through the centuries has been struck by the […]


Kingdom of God

August 5, 2019

Many people refer to the Kingdom of God as the “up-side down” Kingdom. The teachings of living in the kingdom of God seem completely opposite from how we have learned to live in our society.