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A Path Through the Tall Grass

 

 

 

 

 

 

School As Leisure?

 

 

Time to Blossom!

 

 

Your Insurmountable Mountain

 

 

A Christmas Reminder

 

 

Reflections on Teaching

 

 

 

 

 

 

A New Day in Missions

 

 

Should I Study Greek?

 

 

Mumpsimus!

 

 

Loneliness and COVID-19

 

 

The Gifts and Eph. 4:11-12

 

 

The Message of Covid-19

 

 

The Church As Family

 

 

The Christian and Generosity

 

 

Defining "Church"

 

 

1917 and the Bible

 

 

Greek for Everyone

 

 

Don't Bury Your Gifts!

 

 

Writing Goals for 2020

 

 

Bruce Metzger and Me

 

 

How I  Fell in Love with Greek

 

 

Verbal Aspect in Greek

 

 

The Joy of Running

 

 

My Greek Tools

 

 

Piggin' Out for a Cancer Cure

 

 

Your Favorite Book?

 

 

Testing Your Limits

 

 

Alps Report #3

 

 

 

Alps Report #2

 

 

 

Alps Report #1

 

 

 

Finding True Rest

 

 

 

Taking Care of Your Temple

 

 

 

Mark Is More Than Theory

 

 

 

Mark's Theology of the Cross

 

 

 

The Post-Sunday-Centric Church

 

 

 

Top 20 Books on the New Testament

 

 

 

Reformation vs. Restoration

 

 

 

A Fowl Lesson

 

 

 

Enjoying Nature

 

 

 

Matchless Beauty

 

 

 

Graduating?

 

 

 

Running to Home Base

 

 

 

Challenge for India School

 

 

 

Resilience

 

 

 

A Child Is Saved

 

 

 

Building for the Future

 

 

 

Partnering with India

 

 

 

The Peniel Gospel Team

 

 

 

A Look at Hinduism

 

 

 

Introducing India

 

 

 

A New Work in India

 

 

 

Where To Go from Here?

 

 

 

His Love, My Joy

 

 

 

Our New Greek Portal

 

 

 

The Haystack Generation

 

 

 

Why I Go

 

 

 

One Person at a Time

 

 

 

Victory and Defeat

 

 

 

Life and Death in Burji

 

 

 

An Easter Meditation

 

 

 

Olka, Ode to Faithfulness

 

 

 

My Academic Journey

 

 

 

Life + Christ = Fine

 

 

 

Planting Churches Cooperatively

 

 

 

Desta and Beki

 

 

 

Going for the Deeper Joy

 

 

 

Open Letter to My Ethiopian Family

 

 

 

Dealing with Cancer

 

 

 

Creditor or Debtor?

 

 

 

Misconceptions about Missions

 

 

 

The Indigenous Church

 

 

 

Missions As Worship

 

 

 

Global Missions

 

 

 

Living in the Wilderness

 

 

 

Master or Servant?

 

 

 

The Greatest Generation

 

 

 

Can a Christian Curse?

 

 

 

A New Testament Church

 

 

 

Ordinary Missionaries

 

 

 

The Rule of Paul

 

 

 

Nigusse

 

 

 

Paul on Justification

 

 

 

Why Study the Gospels?

 

 

 

On Being a Missionary

 

 

 

A True Supper

 

 

 

Relationships

 

 

 

Felix Mantz

 

 

 

Best Greek Books

 

 

 

An Obstreperous Flower

 

 

 

I'm Healed!

 

 

 

The Persecuted Church

 

 

 

Grades and the Gospel

 

 

 

The Road Less Traveled

 

 

 

Coloring Outside the Lines

 

 

 

The Future of Missions

 

 

 

How to Pray for Us

 

 

 

Seven Who Changed the World

 

 

 

Dealing with Disappointment

 

 

 

The Gospel Is Not a Sales Pitch

 

 

 

Rhino Evangelism?

 

 

 

Paul's Work Ethic

 

 

 

Are You a Kingdom Christian?

 

 

 

The Great Commission

 

 

 

You Make Me Feel Brand New

 

 

 

Sister Wife

 

 

 

Mocking the Great Commission

 

 

 

What the Jesus Freaks Got Right

 

 

 

Cancer and Romans

 

 

 

A First Small Step

 

 

 

Down to Earth Disciples

 

 

 

Servants-in-Training

 

 

 

Teach, Then Baptize?

 

 

 

A Biblical Ecclesiology?

 

 

 

Borderless Christians

 

 

 

How Are Your Verbs?

 

 

 

Be a Peter!

 

 

 

The Great Commission

 

 

 

Blessed Is the Internet

 

 

 

My Horses, My Teachers

 

 

 

The Purpose of a Seminary

 

 

 

The Work of Evangelism

 

 

 

A Great Commission Marriage

 

 

 

Why I Love WMU Sunday

 

 

 

The Emerging Church

 

 

 

 

The Heart of a Secretariat

 

 

 

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