Last week I had the opportunity of bring four evening messages at the Oregon Christian Convention. This was the 158th year of the convention. I’ve been to the convention many times in my life; it is part of who I am. It was an honor to be asked to speak.
My title was Unfinished [...]
For years people have sat in front of computers and made lists of “unreached people groups.” This has been a major mission paradigm, particularly among Evangelicals, since the Lausanne Conference in 1974. As can be expected, of the compiling of lists there is no end. The latest iteration makes the claim that a group [...]
What do you think of when you read or hear read the words of Mary’s song, the Magnificat, Luke 1:46-56? Three answers come to mind. First, some think of the great classical music based on this passage. Pachibel and Bach set these words to music, for which we should all be grateful.
Second, this [...]
I never understood that Bible passage that talks about the Son of Man separating the sheep from the goats (Mt. 25:31-33). I wasn’t raised on a farm and whenever I was with farm animals, it was always cows and horses. In America, sheep are do distinct from goats, that it just didn’t make sense that they [...]