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January 2017

January 18, 2017

Advice for Chinese Returning to China

A Chinese student in the States emailed me recently with a question that I know others...

January 17, 2017

Contextualizing Christmas in China

If you are interested in contextualization in China, you might want to check out Ruth...

January 11, 2017

Are you wasting time church planting?

Even Paul knew his labor in planting churches could be a waste of time. If Paul...

January 10, 2017

Recapping significant events in China during 2016

ChinaSource recently listed a number of things happening in China during 2016 that have...

January 04, 2017

Behave Badly Like Paul

Few books simultaneously entertain, provoke, challenge and instruct. A recent IVP book by just that....

December 2016

December 28, 2016

Recovering an Asian Perspective of Grace

A recent post at The Gospel Coalition tried to explain why many Asians struggle to...

December 21, 2016

“The Spirit Didn’t Move”: Passion Conference Scandalized

If you haven't read The Babylon Bee, you can fix that by clicking here. For...

December 14, 2016

Honor and Shame in Judgment

If you emphasize honor and shame, does this mean that you need to minimize the...

December 08, 2016

Interesting stuff in Themelios (Dec 2016)

This month’s Themelios has multiple interesting articles and reviews of noteworthy books. I was fortunately...

December 07, 2016

Honor and Shame are Objective (Not Merely Subjective)

Many Christians think honor and shame are simply subjective categories. The Bible disagrees. Scripture uses...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

Responding to “White Privilege” in Missions

How do we practically respond to “white privilege”? We first considered how to talk about...

November 22, 2016

Honor-Shame Conference 2107 at Wheaton: Registration NOW OPEN

It's official! You can now register for “Honor, Shame, & the Gospel“—the Honor-Shame Network Conference...

November 17, 2016

The Gospel of the Kingdom (video)

In light of the recent election, I can think of few videos more fitting to...

November 16, 2016

Thank God for “White Privilege” in Missions?

Someone asked me to speak more directly to the issue of “white privilege.” Previously, I...

November 10, 2016

Trump supporters are not put to shame

During election coverage, one commentator rightly stated Trump’s victory does not represent the opposition of...

November 09, 2016

Do We Foster Humility and Hutzpah?

Previously, I claimed that good contextualization requires two things: humility and hutzpah. In this post,...

November 07, 2016

ChinaSource Podcast on Contextualization and Chinese Culture

ChinaSource recently posted an interview between Joann Pittman, Sam Chan and I. I am grateful...

November 03, 2016

How Christ saves God’s face . . . and ours (new article)

I'll excited to let you know that Missiology published my newest article this month and it appears...

November 02, 2016

Must Chinese elders have believing children?

What qualifies a person to be a pastor? Are you aware of a controversial translation...

October 2016

October 25, 2016

My most useful contextualization tool (Part 2)

In my last post, I showed one way to apply the most important tool (in...

October 20, 2016

“White privilege” in missions. Really?

My aunt is attracted black men. That means I now have two black cousins related...

October 19, 2016

My most useful contextualization tool (Part 1)

I recently realized that I have never shared on this blog what is probably the...

October 16, 2016

China is serious this time

The Chinese government is serious about implementing their recently announced religious guidelines. This past week,...

October 13, 2016

Ministering in Honor-Shame Cultures (book notice)

Here is a must read for anyone ministering in honor-shame contexts. Jayson Georges and Mark...

October 12, 2016

Study Guides to Training Videos

Over the past few months, I posted 4 short training videos (available on my media...

October 04, 2016

What LGBT Teaches the Church about Shame (Part 3)

This post concludes the series by giving three suggestions to apply the observations made in...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

What LGBT Teaches the Church about Shame (Part 2)

This post highlights a few observations that will help the church use honor & shame...

September 28, 2016

What LGBT Teaches the Church about Shame (Part 1)

If the LGBT movement has anything, it’s an ironic sense of shame. I’m not talking...

September 21, 2016

Building the Biblical Story

In order to teach the Bible and share the gospel, we do best to understand...

September 14, 2016

Humility and Hutzpah: Two Characteristics of Biblical Contextualization

Contextualization requires character more than competence. Too few people talk about this. As a result,...

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