Picture the slice of toast you had for breakfast this morning. How did it get to your table? Farmers tilled the soil, companies produced fertilizers, and logistics teams transported…
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God is love, and this truth is a theme that runs throughout the entirety of Scripture. The greatest expression of God’s love for humanity, separated from God through sin, is found…
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Recently, I’ve been reflecting on pastors in persecuted contexts and have been thinking about the concept of lament. As He often does, God…
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“The night before last I was taken away to the central investigation area of the Qingyang branch of the Chengdu Police Bureau. This time I…"
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In our present socio-political climate, justice has become a loaded word that evokes debate, confusion, and hostility along theological, political, and ideological lines.
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The church, whether it be large or small, oblong or compact, is a vessel for the raw transformative substance of God’s Word. Scripture is our source code. Our base content. God…
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When my wife and I planted our first church in Fukuoka in 1995, I was 40 years old and we had three children (a third grader, a kindergartener, and a one-year-old child). When we planted our second…
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Jesus said, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled” (Matthew 5:6) and “Blessed are those who…
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By all accounts, humility ranks as one of the most important virtues of the Christian life. In his classic book Humility: The Beauty of Holiness, Andrew Murray famously…
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When we look at the many problems faced by modern cities, the natural but troubling question arises—is there any hope for cities? Will they manage? What will happen to our city? Maybe you have heard the saying…
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My parents were pastors in a little town in Cuba where I grew up. When I was three years old, my father was arrested because he was a pastor. He was released three years later, and that was the first time I remember seeing my father…
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After completing my engineering degree, I responded to God’s call to become a pastor. The first eight years…
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In 1517, Martin Luther knocked his Ninety-five Theses onto the church door in Wittenberg, Germany. In 2017, we…
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Every pastor has heard this response to the suggestion that their church look outwards and talk to some unbelievers about Jesus. In fact…
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After graduating from college, I worked for a year. I came to this church when God led me to Beijing to prepare for graduate studies abroad. At that time…
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It is not just our media which is becoming social. An increasing number of voices are pointing out that the extraordinary success of Facebook, Twitter and the like are actually a visible symptom of a much larger trend…
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Pastors, finding one topic your congregation can identify with is usually pretty simple—it’s their work. But how often do you talk about their careers from the pulpit? Despite clear data that…
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They found what they say is the single largest finding in the history of Gallup—that people care more about work than anything else…
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