A Church-Based Missions StrategyIn world missions, the author proposes, the local church is the biblical sending body through which missionaries serve.
Images can be studied in many ways--as symbols, displays of artistic genius, adjuncts to texts, or naturally occurring phenomena like reflections and dreams.
Shaping the Future includes a global overview of girl child issues stemming from gender discrimination and explores the root causes for this disparity.
By virtue of Lutheranism''s identity in America as an immigrant church, Lutherans are specially placed to help lead conversations about immigration in the United States today.
In 2010, nearly 30 percent of South Koreansa country with a Confucian tradition over 1000 years oldidentify as Christian, the largest percentage of Christians in an Asian nation, aside from the Philippines.
The church's witness to the world falters in an age of doctrinal uncertainty, emerging experiments of life forms and behavior norms, and consequent cultural pressures.
Christ's Faithfulness for Our FruitfulnessAmid lifes constant change and uncertainty, the call to serve in the Great Commission can often feel overwhelming and isolating.
The Church's New Front Door introduces Christians to the critically important concept of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, an era that will be dominated by powerful technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced robotics.
This updated version of Tippett's 1977, The Deep Sea Canoe, describes a significant but often overlooked aspect of the expansion of Christianity in the South Pacific, that of South Sea Island believers who carried the gospel from one island to another in their deep sea canoes.
Would it surprise you to know that New Testament scholars, missiologists, and church-planting authorities cannot agree on how to define tentmaking, whether or not the church should be practicing it today, or even why Paul did it in the first place?
Navigating Ethnic Identity for Gospel WitnessIn most peoples minds ethnic or ethnicity are terms associated with conflict, cleansing, or even genocide.
China's Urban Christians: A Light That Cannot Be Hidden looks at how massive urbanization is redrawing not only the geographic and social landscape of China, but in the process is transforming China's growing church as well.
The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies represents more than a century of scholarship related to the theology, history, and methodology of the propagation of Christian faith and the engagement of Christians with cultures, religions, and societies worldwide.
Shaping the Future includes a global overview of girl child issues stemming from gender discrimination and explores the root causes for this disparity.
A Framework for Transformational Thinking about the Future of World MissionOur world is changing: mass migrations, the emergence of mega-cities, globalization, travel, and ubiquitous connectivity.
