Motivations for Missions
What motivates those who go into long-term church-planting missions? In an age when “passions” and gifting are the penultimate measuring stick, is there a better more Biblical reason to leave home, family, and country? Listen on Sermon Audio Listen on Apple Podcast...
A Painful Time of Year at Radius
Peter starts off his first epistle (1:1) saying, “…to those who are the elect exiles…” and again in 2:11 exhorts them as “Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh…” Implicit in the command of our Savior in Matthew...
What Is ‘Finishing Well’? Why Is It So Rare?
What a loaded topic. Of course, in my blunter moments, I’m tempted to title this, “Why do Missionaries Quit?” But I’m truly trying to work on my bluntness. Some might say I’m actually going woke, I’m not quite there yet. Last week our church in San Diego had another...