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December 2015

December 14, 2015

What Does it Mean to “Become More Like Jesus?”

I’m one of those guys who has an extra sensitive Christian cliché antenna. Some call...

September 2015

September 23, 2015

Why Are Millennials Leaving the Church in Droves? Part 3

Millennials are leaving the church for all sorts of reasons. And as I showed in...

September 22, 2015

Jesus’s Uncanny Residence

I want to take a quick break from our current series on why millennials are...

September 14, 2015

If Your Church Closed Its Doors, Would the Neighborhood Care?

I want to talk about why millennials are fleeing the church in droves. But first,...

September 10, 2015

What Is Discipleship?

As some of you may have (hopefully) noticed, I’ve been a terrible blogger over the...

May 2015

May 06, 2015

Nepal Earthquake Relief

On April 25 at 11:26am, an earthquake with the magnitude of 7.8 rocked the country...

March 2015

March 28, 2015

The Blessing of Leprosy

Our flight to Nepal never ended. We were in the air for 8 years and...

March 24, 2015

Do Short-Term Missions Produce Long-Term Benefit? A Better Way to Do Short Term Missions (part 3)

In the previous post, we looked at the problems of having a “Missions for Me”...

November 2014

November 19, 2014

On Papers and Poverty

I just arrived in San Diego for the Evangelical Theological Society's annual meeting. I'll be...