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April 2026

April 14, 2026

Why Christianity Needs Individuals but Rejects Individualism

One of the great confusions of modern Western culture is that we've learned to use...

July 2025

July 22, 2025

What motivates obedience when I don’t want to obey?

What does true obedience to God look like—and what doesn’t it look like? This isn’t...

March 2022

March 01, 2022

Professionalism versus the Holy Spirit in the Work of Missions?

My concern here is not for missionaries. It’s for the lost. Our effectiveness is damaged...

February 2021

February 02, 2021

Honor Restored Training Videos

Looking for videos that could supplement your training for ministry in honor-shame contexts? Thanks to...

December 2020

December 01, 2020

Are fear-power cultures actually fear-peace cultures?

In this post, I want to argue that we have mislabeled " fear-power cultures." Instead,...

April 2019

April 11, 2019

Writing Worship Songs in Chinese (when it’s your second language)

Contextualization involves more than sound theological doctrine or effective ministry strategies. One area of contextualization...

March 2018

March 07, 2018

There is More to the Story

This guest post by Robert Strauss is Part 3 of 3 in the series introducing...

February 2018

February 27, 2018

Awaken to the Cross-Cultural Context (by Robert Strauss)

This guest post by Robert Strauss is Part 2 of 3 in the series introducing...

August 2017

August 23, 2017

A Practical Approach to Biblical Contextualization (Session 4 Training Video)

Here is SESSION FOUR of 4 training videos I've released over the summer. This final...

August 16, 2017

A Balanced Critique of Popular Missiological Methods

Few recent missiological articles are as practical and pleasurable as is George Terry’s “A Missiology...

August 02, 2017

How does the Bible explain the gospel? (Session 3 Training Video)

There is one gospel yet many ways to present this message. Accordingly, in addition to...

July 2017

July 11, 2017

How does the Bible contextualize the gospel? (Session 2 Training Video)

Here is SESSION TWO of 4 training videos I will release this summer. Below, you'll find...

June 2017

June 14, 2017

Reinterpreting Contextualization (Session 1 Training Video)

In the coming weeks, I will release 4 full length training videos. The audio comes...

June 01, 2017

True but Confusing Advice for Missionaries

Mack Stiles’ recent post on The Gospel Coalition causes unnecessary confusion.[1] Why? It offers advice...

February 2017

February 08, 2017

Contextualize. Don’t Merely Evangelize.

As I waited for my plane, I was stumped by what I was looking at....

January 2016

January 13, 2016

Interview with Christine Dillon (Part 2)

This the second half of my interview with Christine Dillon, a church planter in Taiwan...

December 2015

December 30, 2015

Two Advantages of Storying in Honor-Shame Cultures

Today's post comes from guest blogger Christine Dillon, a church planter in Taiwan with OMF International....

January 2015

January 05, 2015

How Would Jesus Tell It? Crafting Stories for Honor-Shame Cultures

Want to craft a story from an honor-shame perspective? Check out the January 2015...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

The Logic of Biblical Application (Part 3)

Does it matter what method we use when trying to find the application of a...

December 2012

December 29, 2012

Contextualizing Hudson Taylor (Part Two)

This post interacts with the second part of a blog series posted by Global China...