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Books I Have Read: Evangelicals and Social Action

A short review of a very good book indeed.

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Books I Have Read: Advancing Models of Mission

Paul doesn’t seem concerned with establishing the church in each ethnolinguistic people group, even though he and his team were intent on crossing cultural barriers. Rather, Paul was concerned with planting churches in cities that were composed of all people in the city.

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Books I Have Read: Seven Things About the Bible

The purpose of Scripture is not to help people get a passing grade in Religion 101. Rather, the purpose of Scripture is to bring people to believe in Jesus, to draw close to Jesus, to grasp hold of Jesus, to rest in the one whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light

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Books I Have Read: We Are The Winter People

A remarkable book of poems, by an even more remarkable young poet.

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Books I Have Read: Expository Preaching In Africa

If you are training pastors or preachers in Africa; you have to read this.

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Books I Have Read: Ours to Explore

Ours to Explore: Privilege, Power, and the Paradox of Voluntourism investigates voluntourism’s past and present, uncovering the complicated roots of the modern global phenomenon from the eighteenth century through today.

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Books I Have Read: God of the Remnant

The smugness of the majority has meant that the African church has largely remained silent in the face of overwhelming human rights abuses suffered by minorities and by socially disrespected groups such as women, widows, children, orphans, the poor and the weak.

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Books I Have Read: Legitimacy in Missions Matters

A short ebook that anyone involved in mission should get hold of. Oh, and it is a free download.

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Books I Have Read: Mountains Move

A short review of an excellent book which should interest any Christians who engage with Muslims

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Books I Have Read: Why Mission?

The New Testament envisions no role for spectators. A missional reading of scripture, then seeks to bring about not only a clearer understand of scripture but also a better grasp of what it means to live as a missional people today.