By Dan Hitzhusen February 2009 An Evangelistic Cube In the year 2000, God gave an idea to e3 Partners Ministry of using a cube (an idea taken from the world of advertising) to share the gospel. No one at e3 Partners had any idea of the impact this simple tool would have. Frankly, most of […]
By Lon Allison There is no room for the word “gospel” in the title above, any more than there was room for Jesus in Bethlehem. No room remains for hope and certainly not for happiness. Fredrick Buechner writes, “The weight of these sad days all but crushes the life out of the gospel.” I sat […]
By Huang An Shi August 2009 Unsettledness In recent years, the frequency of natural disasters and human-made tragedies in Japan has noticeably increased. Abnormal weather phenomena such as the typhoon or the seven-magnitude earthquakes in Niigata, Hokkaido, and Sendai have caused great loss in human lives and countless damage in personal properties. Moreover, there have […]
By Lon Allison When All Is Gloomy… It is deep winter in the United States. Cities like Boston, where Doug Birdsall, our co-publisher lives, and Chicago, where I reside, are experiencing a very cold and snowbound winter. Days are short; nights are long. Trees are stripped of their leaves and flowers are hidden. It is […]
By Doug Birdsall October / November 2013 “Evangelism itself is the proclamation of the historical, biblical Christ as Savior and Lord with a view to persuading people to come to him personally and so be reconciled to God.” – Lausanne Covenant “Evangelism is the outflow of hearts that are filled with the love of God […]
By Doug Birdsall The Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering has raised up a number of key leaders in evangelism and missions. This year’s event seeks to do the same. Read >> THEMED ARTICLES: Global Internet Users Present Vast Opportunities for Online Evangelism By Dave Hackett Evangelistic websites use different models to share the gospel. This variety […]
By Lon Allison October / November 2013 Two weeks ago, I stood next to a man who shaped my early life in Christ. I met Ed Barr when I was around twenty-one. I had been a Christian a short time and asked Ed, a lawyer, husband and father, to “disciple” me. I was the first […]
By Lon Allison October / November 2013 A book by New York Times journalist Thomas Friedman is getting a lot of attention in the United States and perhaps other parts of the world. The book is titled The World is Flat and in it Friedman portrays the way that globalization is spreading in the world […]
By Doug Birdsall October / November 2013 In today’s world there is a dizzying array of messages and competing voices, but one voice that cannot be ignored is the voice of the younger generation. With (1) the exponential expansion of global migration and mobility, (2) global communication and information technology and (3) global problems and […]
By R. C. Stevens November 2008 The grandmother, Rama, was an old acquaintance who had worked as a house-helper for some friends of ours. Her son and daughter-in-law sat with her on the floor of our sitting room—their clothes and hollow faces declaring their poverty, the quiet despair in his eyes highlighting the harsh life […]
By Glenn Smith April 2009 I will never forget walking the streets of Cité du Peuple, outside of Cap-Haitien, Haiti, with a young pastor named Mario. He was considering a call to work in a church in the city. “I cannot imagine raising a family and pastoring a church, let alone living in this slum,” […]
By John Lindner August 2006 “Partnerships That Transform—Here and There” was the theme of this year’s Coalition On the Support of Indigenous Ministries (COSIM) conference, held 12-14 June 2006 at the Billy Graham Center in Wheaton, Illinois, USA. Seventy-three mission enthusiasts met to share experiences and to learn how to have more effective partnerships. At least […]
By Laurie Fortunak Nichols October / November 2013 The Hui are the largest and most widespread of China’s Muslim nationalities. With over ten million Hui in China, it is astonishing that there are no known Christians among this people group. In fact, over ninety percent of Hui are Muslim and because of this Islam in […]
By Stephen Goode January 2006 Arriving to help victims of natural disasters Youth with a Mission (YWAM) teams have been working in war zones, crisis and natural disasters for the past twenty-six years. However, nothing has impacted us more than the 2004 tsunami. A red flag in Aceh was a sign to the military or […]
