A breeze from the South China Sea tousled the curtains enveloping our meeting room in a wintery dampness. The group of Chinese women chosen for this specific training event was sitting in clusters enjoying a tea break with mounds of freshly sliced kiwi, lychee, and mangoes.
Read MoreIn 1998, I was sent to Okinawa as a domestic missionary of the Evangelical Free Church. Back then, the Evangelical Free Church was one of the most developed denominations in Japan. Even if they…
Read MorePart of the challenge the church faces today is that a lot of our discourse about mission stays within the community of faith. Our engagement with culture can be on a highly-articulated, but theoretical level…
Read MoreJoin us for an interview between City to City’s Director of Content, Brandon J. O'Brien, and John Smed, founder of Prayer Current and author of the book Journey in Prayer.
Read MoreBeing a pastor or church planter can be one of the most time-consuming, heart-wrenching, and difficult endeavors someone can take on. At the same time, it can be one of the most winsome and fulfilling endeavors. And all of these qualities can be highly problematic if pastors don’t take time to reflect on their own health.
Read MoreIt’s that time of year when anyone who lives in Phoenix, Arizona remembers that 118 degrees is incredibly hot and questions the logic of building a city in the middle of the desert…
Read More“The purpose of silence and solitude is to be able to see and hear. The Spirit speaks to us when our heart is still and silent before the Lord—not when we’re rushing about and doing our own thing in our own way.”
Read More"Conventional strategy isn't much help right now, as it presumes visibility that none of us have. Instead, it is a time to prototype everything.”
As I read this, it hit me. An overwhelming…
Read MoreI want to talk today about you. There are a lot of questions about what kind of unique witness should the church have at a time like this—how do you pastorally care for people who are experiencing anxiety on a unique level? But I don't want to talk about those. I want to talk about you.
Read MoreWhen I consider everything going on these days and everything there is for church leaders to do, it doesn’t feel like I have permission to rest. Furthermore, I feel that I don’t deserve to rest…
Read MoreCity to City has compiled these reflections by Timothy Keller in the hopes that…
Read MoreTim Keller shares how the story of Easter holds a vast hope for us in a year beleaguered by death.
Read MoreLangdon Gilkey was a twentieth-century American theologian and writer who encountered the truth of God’s grace in the most unlikely of places. As a young man, Gilkey…
Read MoreThe COVID-19 pandemic has altered the way pastors address the needs of congregants. In the midst of this upheaval, it can be difficult for leaders…
Read MoreIt is somewhat of an understatement to say that at this time we are in the “messy middle” of the COVID-19 pandemic—between what was and what is next. Church…
Read MoreWhenever you are in a time of stress, you should go to the Psalms. They have a medicine for everything, they depict every situation that a human being can be in, and they've addressed every emotion you could ever have. They also tell you how to process that emotion or about that situation before God.
Read MoreI was the seventh child in a very big family. My parents were divorced, so we all grew up with my father. And from early on in my life, I felt like I needed to do something special to get his attention…
Read MoreYou never know when God is going to use something as small as an email to change your life forever.
I grew up in Eastern Germany. I was seventeen when the Berlin Wall came down…
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