How Leaders Lose Their Way: And How to Make Sure It Doesn’t Happen to You
Peter Greer is president and CEO of Hope International, a Christ-centered economic development organization serving in Africa, Asia, Latin America, an…
Category: Leaders Edge
The “Leader’s Edge” series offers in-depth book summaries and interviews with authors in four categories: Leadership, Missions and Ministry, Spiritual Formation, and Missionary Biographies. These summaries inform, stimulate, and provoke profitable discussions among readers. This series is a valuable resource for leaders, missionaries, and those seeking spiritual growth, offering actionable insights and fostering thoughtful discussions.
The Sending Shepherd: Leading Churches to Disciple All Nations
The Sending Shepherd by Denny Spitters and Matthew Ellison aims to transform the role of the church in missions.
Evidence Not Seen – A Woman’s Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II
Darlene Deibler Rose, a recently-married young missionary to Papua New Guinea, arrived on the field in 1938, not long before World War II.
The Bible in Culture: Reading the Bible with All the World Using Ethnohermeneutics
We recommend this book to hermeneutics ad missions professors and students, pastors and missionaries, who desire to study and teach the Bible i…
Author Interview: Larry W. Caldwell on The Bible in Culture: Reading the Bible with All the World Using Ethnohermeneutics
The book seeks to develop biblically grounded and culturally appropriate hermeneutical (or Bible interpretation) approaches that help interpreters to…
The Importance of Deeper Connections in Missions Leadership
Recently, I was invited to join a gathering of mission leaders in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. What I witnessed there was a beautiful reminder of how p…
Passing the Baton: Raising Up the Next Generation of Mission Leaders
In the Church Mission Leaders breakout sessions, the trend was even more noticeable. There were far more older leaders than younger ones.
A Good Question – w/ special guest writer, Ted Esler
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Lausanne presentation by Dr. Ralph Winter on “unreached people groups.” This missiological concept has…
The Accidental Billion-Dollar Invention
Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who…
Stand Firm
As my family and I prayed and did our devotional, my 15-year-old son, whom you can hardly get more than 5 words out of -especially in the morning- pra…