Are missionaries pedestal-worthy? Part 3
Can a desire to help Christians understand who they are and motivate them to live the way the bible describes actually wind up harming a specific minority of other Christians? Pastor Jeff Jackson...
View ArticleIn Turkey, time is relational
Subtitle: Most cultures view the concept of time radically different than Americans do. Rhett Burns lives and serves in Turkey with his wife and children. He shares some important lessons he has...
View ArticleHow far will we go to make Him known?
Every follower of Jesus should desire to know God at a deeper level and to make Him known. But is it possible that one more desire needs to be added to those two? And is it possible that this other...
View ArticleSeparation’s painful but beautiful fruit
As painful as an undesired separation from the city and people you love can be, there are profound truth’s to be learned in the process. These are thoughts of Emily Johnson as she and her husband...
View ArticleStealing, killing, destroying: a limited understanding?
For a teachable cross-cultural worker, life-changing and American-culture challenging truth can be learned from a beautiful tribe of people in Panama. American missionary Malana Ganz and her husband...
View ArticleAre they people, scenery, or machinery?
For everyone involved in ministry, especially missionaries, there is value in considering the categories that we inadvertently place people into. Perhaps some attention and re-categorizing might be in...
View ArticleA wake-up call….from other cultures!
Does the book of Jonah contain some convicting lessons for American Christians? Pastor Jeff Jackson thinks so as he reflects on the compartmentalizing component of American Christian culture. Jonah...
View ArticleA great place to “ease into missions”?
On the surface, Cape Town, South Africa seems to be a user-friendly on ramp for those desiring to serve cross-culturally. But what really exists right below the surface of those on ramps? Julie...
View ArticleAre you “Seeker Sensitive”?
Is there anything inherently unbiblical about a follower of Jesus claiming that they are “seeker sensitive”? According to Pastor Jeff Jackson it really depends on who the “seeker” is. If the “seeker”...
View ArticleHome-church provoked THANKFULNESS!
When the home church of a missionary takes its multi-faceted commitment to that missionary seriously, God is glorified and the missionary is blessed. Julie Rumph, an SSMFI missionary serving in South...
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