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Planter, Become a Better Preacher

John Stott confessed to being “an impenitent believer in the indispensable necessity of preaching both for evangelism and for the healthy growth of the church. The contemporary situation makes preaching more difficult; it does not make it less necessary.”

Statements like that resonate with pastors who are responsible for…

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The Many Changes Missionaries Made to America

America sent thousands of Protestant missionaries abroad to Christianize and Americanize the world. Many returned, however, and globalized America.

The Congregationalist leader Buell Gallagher dubbed this phenomenon the “missions boomerang,” and David A. Hollinger sets out to write its history in Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America. Flung abroad to change the world, the boomerang returned—often with a stinging indictment of the parochialism, imperialism, and paternalism of the North Atlantic West—and changed America.

Emeritus professor of history at U.C. Berkeley, Hollinger compellingly shows why the history of missionaries is worth understanding. Over his years of scholarship, he connected dot after dot that linked missionary-connected individuals with key transformations in America. Now that he’s told their story,…

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The Many Changes Missionaries Made to America

America sent thousands of Protestant missionaries abroad to Christianize and Americanize the world. Many returned, however, and globalized America.

Greg Boyd’s Misunderstandings of the ‘Warrior God’

Greg Boyd’s view of cruciformity lacks the robustness and breadth portrayed in the New Testament by Jesus, Paul, and...

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Faith. Hope. Love.

What begins as an explanation of a debate that can seem academic is revealed to be an immensely practical...
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