Tag: Christian
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The Death Of John Allen Chau: Rough Rider Or Reject?
I’ve been involved in cross-cultural mission work for almost 20 years and have lived overseas for the last 11. When I first heard about an American missionary dying on a remote island at the hands of the tribe he was trying to reach, I was immediately confused and critical. I thought this was another classic…
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3 Reasons Why Suffering is Essential in God’s Kingdom
From the safety of our homes in the US, being persecuted for our faith sounds like something that only happens in outlandish countries or ancient biblical stories. To be interrogated, threatened, beaten and jailed for our faith in Jesus is just something that doesn’t typically happen in America. When suffering does occur in other places…
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What Next? The 4 Stages of Launching Church Movements
As church planters, “What next?” is probably one of the questions we ask the most. What do we do after reaching the lost? How do we make disciples and train them to train others? How do we form groups and catalyze a movement of reproducing churches? There are so many methods and answers out there…
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Reblog: Over the Mountain & Into the Valley
I just couldn’t resist reblogging this! Here is a post from a friend where she poetically summarizes the 5 highlights of her most epic journey to pray for the unreached in Laos. You can visit her blog here: The Afterglow The highlight of March was going on a prayer journey to The So People. It all…
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Is Faith in the West Dead?
One day I’m sitting on a sky train in a major bustling city sipping Starbucks frappuccino while the next I’m sitting in a thatched hut in a jungle eating a rare and newly discovered species of squirrel. In both places I get to live life with people who are lost and people who are found.…
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The Girl with Evil Spirits
Not long ago I was sitting in a thatched hut praying over a sixteen year old girl who was afflicted by demons. For more than 6 months she was bed-ridden and couldn’t walk. She is the only believer in her entire Animistic tribe. Her family has allowed her to “test” Jesus because nothing else worked…
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Dirty Feet
Sometimes the greatest feeling in the world is having mud in between your toes. Why? It’s because you know you’re taking it like a man and getting dirty is not going to stop you. You understand the risks of riding a motorbike through a jungle in a third world country. You know the rainy season…
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The Fear of Bombs and Demons
Fear is the same the world over. Its manifestations though are quite diverse. Here in the West we fear the loss of control. Chaos is a threat to our security and stability. Without control our way of life is in danger. Our children are in danger, our investments are in danger, our houses are in…
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Church Sucks
It’s safe to say that more than half the people on this planet feel that church sucks. They see it as an institution – one that is intolerant, irrelevant, hypocritical and completely out of touch with culture. It’s also safe to say that the other half of this planet have no official opinion of church because they’ve never formulated…
The Asian Rough Rider 