Crumbs from the Master's Table

"The commission may have application to the church generally, but the commission belongs particularly to the disciples, and to all thos...

A redemptive strategy for engaging readers and hearers is summed up in these six communication tasks: 1. Know the people with whom you are...

Vanhoozer: There is nothing we can do to add to the finished work and definitive performance of Christ; however, it does not follow that t...

"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, ...

"Jesus' Great Commission remains as urgent as ever, even if many churches operate with a tragically abbreviated version only, bapti...

"Missionary, first, do no harm." This is what I'm calling the  Missionary Oath . And I've come up with it mainly with so-c...

"Until lions have their historians, the hunter will always be the hero of the story." —As recalled by Michael W. Goheen, Introduci...

"Non-Christians do not read the Bible; they read Christians." —Christopher W. Morgan, A Theology of James : Wisdom for God's...

In a section showing how "a Christian spirit disposes persons freely to do good to others," in the fourth sermon in his sermon ser...

The following is the corporate prayer we prayed this morning at  New Covenant Church . And two great texts from Matthew's gospel shaped...

"Mission is the mother of all theology" (M. Kahler, as cited in Michael F. Bird, Introducing Paul,  20).

What follows is a recent prayer offered up at New Covenant Church  in Naperville, IL . On the morning we prayed this corporate prayer, we w...

Hafemann: S. Douglas Birdsall, the executive director of the Lausanne Movement, has said in public presentations and private conversation ...

J. Gordon McConville: The story of the prophetic books involves re-thinking who 'Israel' is. The prophets sometimes speak of a ...

God is a God of blessing. He delights to bless. He has undertaken—at the price of his Son's life—the greatest undertaking of the cosmos:...

Speaking of the implications of Christ's victory in the cross over Satan, Sinclair Ferguson discusses the implications under four headin...

In a message titled "What is the Ministry and Mission of the Local Church? Foundations from the Pastoral Episles," D. A. Carson sa...

Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing,                                         My God and King .          The heav'ns are not to...

"God had only one son and he made him a missionary."— David Livingstone

Here is some perspective on the task of the gospel going global into all the nooks and crannies of unreached or unengaged people groups. ...