“Just Listen”—The Lausanne Movement and Global Theological Education

I am representing the American ministerial education ministry, with Dr. Don Sweeting, our RTS Orlando president,and with my other 30 European pastor-scholars. We are a minority group to the "Majority Church" pastoral educators from Asia, Africa, the Continue Reading

Preaching on Mission (Matthew 4:12 – 17): Keynote Message at the National Conference on Preaching 2012

There has never been a more important time to talk to preachers about preaching on mission. The landscape of Old Christendom is like an abandoned strip mine, with huge, gaping, ugly craters, filling now with the most horrid debris and litter. These Continue Reading

The World Upside Down in the Middle East

The World Turned Upside Down was the title of Sir Christopher Hill's history of the English Civil War. Today, as then, our world is being turned upside down. From Tunisia to Libya, the Middle East is quaking. Not since the fall of the Berlin Wall has the Continue Reading

A Hope for Prodigal People

I believe that the Gospel will reach the Muslim people and release them from a legacy of pain and anger, and from the anger against them. I believe that many of Abraham and Hagar’s sons and daughters will be constrained with the compelling love and Continue Reading