The Lord Jesus warns against false teachers, and explains how they can be identified. As recorded in Matthew...
Missiology Articles
What Is Islam’s Relationship to Christianity? The Theological Analysis of the Bible and the Quran
The Quran is a book of the utmost importance and influence in the world today. It is the foundational text of Islam,...
Worlds Apart: Biblical Perspectives on “Muslims” and “Islam”
Introduction Christians have interacted both with Muslim persons and the religion of Islam for fourteen centuries....
Sex Trafficking and Slavery in Southeast Asia: To Free Captives
This article originally appeared in the Liberty University Journal of Statesmanship and Public Policy, and has been...
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The Trinity: God’s Love as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Part II of II)
This is part two of a two part series on the Trinity. Part One: Unity has Plurality (Apr 16, 2018) Part Two: God's Love as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Apr 23, 2018) In 1919 after the end of the Paris Peace Conference, then Emir Faisal (or Feisal), along with his...
The Trinity: Unity Has Plurality (Part I of II)
This is part one of a two part series on the Trinity. Part One: Unity has Plurality (Apr 16, 2018) Part Two: God's Love as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Apr 23, 2018) Selected references for God’s triune nature from the Old and New Testaments are provided at the...
Satan’s Opposition To The Cross and the Islamic Denial of the Crucifixion
Charles Montagu Doughty, the Englishman who traveled throughout parts of the Arabian Peninsula in the latter part of the eighteenth-century gave the following account under the subtitle, “fanaticism”: In an evening I had wandered to the oasis side: there a flock of...
Rebuke
Would you rather be a leader at your church or eat the green slime that floats atop a water tank after a long hot summer? Would you rather be part of leading a congregation or walk through a muddy river full of water moccasins, alligators, snapping turtles, piranhas,...
Ethical Implications of Contextualization: Part 6/6: Conclusion
The following is Part 6 of a 6 part series: Part I: Preaching in Babel: Telling a Fickle World of the Unchanging God (Dec 11, 2017) Part II: The Need for Contextualization (Dec 18, 2017) Part III: Contextualization and the Ethics of Communication (Jan 15, 2018) Part...
Ethical Implications of Contextualization: Part 5/6: Ethics and the Power Dynamics of Contextualization
The following is Part 5 of a 6 part series: Part I: Preaching in Babel: Telling a Fickle World of the Unchanging God (Dec 11, 2017) Part II: The Need for Contextualization (Dec 18, 2017) Part III: Contextualization and the Ethics of Communication (Jan 15, 2018) Part...
Ethical Implications of Contextualization: Part 4/6: Contextualization and the Ethics of Identity
The following is Part 4 of a 6 part series: Part I: Preaching in Babel: Telling a Fickle World of the Unchanging God (Dec 11, 2017) Part II: The Need for Contextualization (Dec 18, 2017) Part III: Contextualization and the Ethics of Communication (Jan 15, 2018) Part...
Ethical Implications of Contextualization: Part 3/6: Contextualization and the Ethics of Communication
The following is Part 3 of a 6 part series: Part I: Preaching in Babel: Telling a Fickle World of the Unchanging God (Dec 11, 2017) Part II: The Need for Contextualization (Dec 18, 2017) Part III: Contextualization and the Ethics of Communication (Jan 15, 2018) Part...
Ethical Implications of Contextualization: Part 2/6: The Need for Contextualization
The following is Part 2 of a 6 part series: Part I: Preaching in Babel: Telling a Fickle World of the Unchanging God (Dec 11, 2017) Part II: The Need for Contextualization (Dec 18, 2017) Part III: Contextualization and the Ethics of Communication (Jan 15, 2018) Part...
Ethical Implications of Contextualization: Part 1/6: Preaching in Babel: Telling a Fickle World of the Unchanging God
The following is Part 1 of a 6 part series: Part I: Preaching in Babel: Telling a Fickle World of the Unchanging God (Dec 11, 2017) Part II: The Need for Contextualization (Dec 18, 2017) Part III: Contextualization and the Ethics of Communication (Jan 15, 2018) Part...
Jihadist Changes His Mind
When you notice something wrong—like the furnace stops working on a winter night—you ask, “What’s wrong?” Do you stand in front of the contraption and applaud? No. You want the blasted thing fixed! So when a Muslim who once believed jihad means the use of force...
From Kachai to Kentucky: Is my context really so different from yours?
Statements such as “all theologies are contextual theologies,” “there is no supra-cultural truth,” “we can never read the text objectively, we always read through our contextual lenses” etc. provoked me to examine my own biases and implicit assumptions. At times such...
Identity Development and Transformation in Christ (7/7): Identity Applications
Christo-centric Identifications and Practical Applications The following is the final article in a seven-part series on Identity Development and Transformation. This series is geared for Muslims who are leaving Islam and embracing Jesus Christ as Lord, as well as...
Identity Development and Transformation in Christ (6/7): Christo-centric identity for Former Muslims
Christo-centric identity for Former Muslims The following is the sixth article in a seven-part series on Identity Development and Transformation. This series is geared for Muslims who are leaving Islam and embracing Jesus Christ as Lord, as well as those ministering...
Identity Development and Transformation in Christ (5/7): Christo-centric Identity
Developing Christo-centric identity The following article is the fifth in a seven-part series on Identity Development and Transformation. This series is geared for Muslims who are leaving Islam and embracing Jesus Christ as Lord, as well as those ministering to them....
Identity Development and Transformation in Christ (4/7): Transitional Identity
The House of David and the House of Saul: Transitional Identity Issues for Muslim Inquirers The following article is the fourth in a seven-part series on Identity Development and Transformation. This series is geared for Muslims who are leaving Islam and embracing...
Identity Development and Transformation in Christ (3/7): Shahada and Muslim Identity
Shahadah, Muhammad and Muslim Identity The following article is the third in a seven-part series on Identity Development and Transformation. This series is geared for Muslims who are leaving Islam and embracing Jesus Christ as Lord, as well as those ministering to...
Identity Development and Transformation in Christ (2/7): Flexibility of the term “Muslim”
How Flexible is the Term “Muslim”? Can a Christ-worshipper be a Muslim? The following article is the second in a seven-part series on Identity Development and Transformation. This series is geared for Muslims who are leaving Islam and embracing Jesus Christ as Lord,...
Identity Development and Transformation in Christ (1/7): Muslim Identity – To Be or Not to Be a Muslim?
The following article is the first in a seven-part series on Identity Development and Transformation. This series is geared for Muslims who are leaving Islam and embracing Jesus Christ as Lord, as well as those ministering to them. Identity Development and...
God has revealed. Man has repressed and exchanged: J.H. Bavinck’s missiology from Romans Chapter One
God has revealed. Man has suppressed and exchanged. Most recently, I devoted a year comparing the theology of J.H. Bavinck, Hendrick Kramer and the apostle Paul. For most Biblically conservative missionaries and missiologists, Paul’s letter to the Romans is...