David Sills

M. David Sills is associate dean of Christian Missions and the A. P. and Faye Stone Professor of Christian Missions and Cultural Anthropology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has planted and pastored churches in both the United States and Ecuador, and he is the founder and president of Reaching & Teaching International Ministries, a ministry to train pastors and leaders around the world. He is the author of The Missionary Call and Reaching and Teaching, as well as several books in Spanish.

Sovereignty, Suffering, and the Work of Missions

by David Sills | The Sovereignty of God: How Suffering and Justice Meet, Featured

If God is sovereign and all powerful, He must not be good. Or if He is good, then He must not be sovereign and all powerful. So reason many who believe that there should simply not be any suffering in the world. But even if they understand some suffering...

The Pastor’s Thought Life: Excellence

by David Sills | The Gospel and the Christian Life, Featured

Paul calls the believer to discipline his thought life to be one of moral excellence, virtue, and purity. Excellence should characterize all we do for God. In my travels around the world, I have had many opportunities to visit and worship with other churches. As I do...