Consider these thoughts about evaluating progress as you start to look back on this year.

Maybe this painful story from my own journey can be helpful.

There are unique contributions that African American churches bring to the global church.

Can we have greater success and resilience by redefining the way we engage change?

Let’s talk about what is right with the church (part 2).

Let’s talk about what is right with the church (part 1).

What missions applications can we glean from the recent eclipse?

How can we be sure we measure the important things?

What can Paul teach us about how to measure our mission works?

Maybe there are advantages White people are not even aware of.

How to identify a few things that can get in the way of helping people get to Jesus.

Are we getting the point of the parable?

How can you get the best out of your mission efforts?

Could we be communicating unintentional messages when we “invite people to the table”?

Is there a wrong way to be right?!

How does God call us to respond to the horrible conflict between Hamas and Israel?

What role should we seek to have in God’s global mission? Perhaps “midwife”?!

One of the questions that churches often ask us is, “What are best practices in missions?” While we have a list we can give, I often reply first by asking, “To do what?”

“I can’t believe I’m hearing this! I must be dreaming! I never thought I would hear an American say such things! For years we have been treated like slaves by Americans.

This changes everything.”  

Because I spent many of the formative years of my childhood living in Muleshoe, Texas, I have a fondness for the mule. After all, that was our school mascot. I've cheered for mules at pep rallies and rooted for mules at many ballgames. "Kick-em, Mules, Kick-em." But mules have one major weakness…

“After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go.”

Why are some places open to the gospel and other places closed? Why does freedom of religion and prosperity seem to erode the power of the church, and persecution seems to purify and empower the church?

I’m not big on household chores, but at the top of my “hate to do” list is cleaning my instruments of cleaning.

What does this have to do with global missions? Read on to find out!

Ken Shumard graduated to glory last week. If you don’t have connections with Churches of Christ in Atlanta, you likely don’t know who he was, but Ken was a powerful man of God who liked to work in the background. If you didn’t know his name, he would be pleased about that, but he did want you to know Jesus’ name and follow him.