March 01, 2008 by Ralph D. Winter

Editorial Comment

Dear Reader,
We do not normally present our readers with discouraging information. We all need encouragement.

But now and then we need to face some hard facts. Yes, hard facts about mission...

Tags: atheism, losing faith, secularism

March 01, 2008 by

Why Are they Walking Away?

Have you ever felt like giving up on your Christian faith and walking away from God or the Church? Appartently, this is happening all over the world. In the deepest darkest moments of your life...

Tags: atheism, losing faith, secularism

March 01, 2008 by Rick Wood

Are We Proclaiming a Defective Gospel?

Is the Gospel message that hundreds of thousands of missionaries are proclaiming around the world defective? Have hundreds of millions of people bought into a Gospel message that is, at its heart,...

Tags: atheism, losing faith, secularism

March 01, 2008 by Jonathan W. Rice

An Anti-Intellectual Faith and the Tragic Consequences for Britain’s Evangelical Awakening

Recently, I began reading a book so interesting that I stayed up until 2:30 a.m. finishing it. If you ever want a detailed account of how the nineteenth-century English Evangelicals ended the...

Tags: atheism, losing faith, secularism

March 01, 2008 by Vishal Mangalwadi

The Pursuit of Knowledge and Truth

The Key to a New Reformation

When the pioneers of Western Protestant missions arrived in India they established a college (1813), which grew into Serampore University. Their leader William Carey, a cobbler turned Bible...

Tags: atheism, losing faith, secularism

March 01, 2008 by Gregory Boyd

Is God to Blame?

Why Did God Do This?

This is a book about the mystery of why tragic things happen the way they do. So it seems fitting to introduce this book with one of the toughest why questions a person can...

Tags: evil, losing faith, satan

March 01, 2008 by Greg Livingstone

Frontiers

Great Things from a Small Beginning: Celebrating 25 Years of Ministry to Muslims

We had no idea how to organize a new mission agency. What practices should we take from other agencies? What innovations were called for? In the early days, some critics exclaimed, “Frontiers!...

Tags: frontiers, islam, muslim

March 01, 2008 by Glenn Schwartz

Raising Local Resources

Where does your help come from?

According to Psalm 121 (NIV) the answer to the question in my title is, “My help comes from the Lord” (verse 1). What a wonderful privilege for all of us to have...

Tags: dependency

March 01, 2008 by

Learning From the Global Family of God

We were all ready. We’d just finished seminary and had a sense of excitement about the future. One of my classmates was “Sam.” Sam and I had both been to southeast Asia during a short term a few...

Tags: perspectives, worldview