A Passion to Share the Advance of the Global Church from Crossway on Vimeo. A Bigger Vision My work in missions started really after the Berlin Wall came down and I had the opportunity to go and train pastors in former Iron Curtain countries. What struck me when I was...
4 Ways to Think about the Persecuted Church from Crossway on Vimeo. Don’t Be Overly Sentimental or Sensational First of all, let’s not sentimentalize persecution. It’s real, it is hard, it’s our family that is suffering. Just as it says in Hebrews 13:3 that we are to...
1. Persecution is bound up with Christ’s persecution. Jesus made that clear on His way to Jerusalem when he told his disciples that there he would “suffer many things . . . and be killed, and on the third day be raised” (Matt. 16:21). And then he told his followers...
When Christ Turns Persecutors Into the Persecuted (For His Glory) from Crossway on Vimeo. The Power of Christ When I see the power of Christ to save men and women out of utter darkness and death and when I see the radical transformation that he makes in a life, I see...
4 Ways to Think about the Persecuted Church from Crossway on Vimeo. Don’t Be Overly Sentimental or Sensational First of all, let’s not sentimentalize persecution. It’s real, it is hard, it’s our family that is suffering. Just as it says in Hebrews 13:3 that we are to...
God Is Not Geographically Limited I love to remind people that God is not just working on the other side of the world. We can get the mentality that, “Oh, God’s working over there but he’s no longer working over here.” And God is working in powerful ways across North...