This week I am in Barcelona Spain. This is a beautiful city and the culture is quite inviting. It reminds me in many ways of New Orleans. I felt home. Now if I could just speak the language. I’m here interacting with missionaries from Western...
I want to do a few posts, now that I am getting back to some degree of health, about what I learned by spending a week in Spain as it applies to ministry in the US. Western Europe is post-Christian, maybe better stated post-christendom. People do...
Anyone who has read this blog over the past year knows I have a great deal of respect and admiration for Bob Roberts. His book, Glocalization, blew my paradigm. Bob has just gotten back from Israel on vacation. While there, he was able to meet with...
We are now continuing our look at Lamin Sanneh’s book, Whose Religion in Christianity? The Gospel Beyond the West. We continue in this section where Sanneh writes in a more question and answer format. This second section of questions form...
Living a missional and missionary lifestyle requires us to learn stories but also to be story-tellers. When others see and hear our stories they learn about us, how we think, and why we do what we do the way we do it. God has moved into our life and...
I wish I could go into more detail right now, but there is a great need to pray for those helping to rebuild this country.
Over the next few weeks we are looking at Lamin Sanneh’s book, Whose Religion in Christianity? The Gospel Beyond the West. It is this section where Sanneh begins a more question and answer format. These questions and answers are broken up into...
This is part of Youtube Tuesdays. Today, I bring you the 2008 Hein-Fry Lectures from Luther Seminary. The annual Hein-Fry Lectures identify key theological issues facing the church. The lectures are designed to stimulate inquiry and discussion at...
I have been in Barcelona, Spain since Sunday. I have spent these past days walking the streets with missionaries from all across Western Europe. I have seen their faces. I have heard their stories. I have seen their tears, and I have shed a few with...