Archive for the 'Missions' Category

Westminster Bookstore Goes to Jail!

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Jeff Fuller of the Reformed Evangelist blog knew he possessed two things anyone in ministry would love to have at the same time: seekers hungry for the Gospel and many people willing to help get it to them. All he had to do was find a way to bring those two together. In Jeff’s case, [...]

WTS 2007 Student Missions Conference

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

The Student Missions Fellowship will sponsor the 2007 Missions Conference at Westminster Theological Seminary all next week (February 12-16). Theme this year is “Becoming servants of Theology and Training to the Global Church.” Find all details here.

Ryken and Spurgeon: A Church for the City

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

I have this love/hate relationship with the Reformation21 blog…have you noticed? Sometimes it infuriates me…and then it turns right around and challenges me in ways that deeply move me toward Christ and his Cross.
Very often, the latter occurs through the musings of Rev. Philip Ryken, senior minister of Tenth Presbyterian Church in center city (never [...]

Conn on Theology and Theologizing

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

As part of my involvement with the new Conn-versation team blog dedicated to the life and legacy of missional visionary Harvie Conn, I have been completing my reading of his magnum opus, Eternal Word and Changing Worlds: Anthropology, Theology, and Missions in Trialogue. The final two chapters, on theologizing and theological education from a missional [...]

An Emerging Blogger Wonders About Evangelism

Monday, November 13th, 2006

It is now going on two weeks since the Emerging Church Forum sponsored by the Student Association of Westminster Theological Seminary. One of our hopes in putting on that conference was to stimulate thinking and dialog not only between Reformed seminarians and emerging church folk but also within each of those two circles. It was [...]

Prayer for the Persecuted Church

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

The second Sunday of November is designated by many churches as the “International Day of Prayer and Remembrance for the Persecuted Church.” Tonight I will be attending a prayer meeting for our persecuted brothers and sisters across the globe at Maple Glen Church near our home. More information on the persecuted church can be found [...]

Have a Spare Greek NT?

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

Drew Parlee, a recent Westminster Theological Seminary graduate whi is now teaching seminary in Serbia has seven students who cannot afford Greek New Testaments of their own. If you have a spare you are no longer using and can get it to me soon, I will make sure it gets to his students.
Thanks!

A Dream for Westminster (and Beyond?)

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

Note: The following is a rather long post, but Karyn and I humbly request that all of those who care about us and what the Lord might have for us to do in his service take the time to read it through. Bless you, our dear friends!
If I made an FAQ of things people ask [...]

WWAD: What Would the Amish Do?

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

In evangelical Christianity today we argue and debate and postulate and publish ad nauseum about the best ways to “reach” our culture and fulfill the Great Commission. The recent news coverage of the tragic school shooting in the Amish community of Lancaster, PA, made me aware that perhaps those folks have hit on a methodology [...]

James Skillen and Carl Ellis Open WTS Gospel & Culture Project

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

At a special colloquium entitled “Biblical Matters: Biblical Reflections on ‘Going Global’” held this morning, James W. Skillen and Carl F. Ellis, Jr., each delivered impassioned pleas that the Church of Jesus Christ needs to be aware of and speak into all of life. The meeting at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia was sponsored by [...]