(I ran across this quote this past weekend and had to share it. It’s a journal entry of Hudson Taylor’s that was found after his death. He wrote it when he was 42 and everything in his life was going … Continue reading
Derick Scudder
I’ve been studying and meditating on Matthew 5-7 recently. As a part of that, I picked up D. Martin Lloyd Jones sermons on the Sermon on the Mount. This morning I read his sermon on “Blessed are the poor in … Continue reading
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It’s been a year since I finished my blog series, “Why I’m Done With Urban Ministry.” It was the first entry I wrote, and it was the main reason I started the blog in the first place. I wrote this … Continue reading
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(This is the last in my four part series, Read Part 1 here, Part 2 here and Part 3 here) 4. Relying on conversions, not transfer growth. There’s nothing wrong with transfer growth. Hopefully, though, no one plans to grow … Continue reading
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(This part 3 in this series, Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here) 3. Not recognizing and adapting to the education gap. Did you know that only 1 out of every 12 seventeen-year-olds can read the science section of … Continue reading
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(This Part 2 of this series, read Part 1 here) 2. Christians Aren’t Staying. High turnover is the norm in poor neighborhoods. Poverty means that people already have little control over where they live. One missed paycheck, one lousy landlord … Continue reading
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Like basically every night in college–it was late, but none of us felt like going to bed. We were hanging out after a work meeting, and since a lot of us were studying to go into the ministry, the topic … Continue reading
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When Hudson Taylor wrote this letter to his mother on March 13th in 1869, he wasn’t exaggerating about the thick clouds of discouragement. The past few months had been staggeringly painful: Taylor finally had to dismiss one of his missionaries. … Continue reading
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The adrenaline is just starting to wear off. It was a long, terrifying, thrilling night. As a first-time father, you can’t get over the fact that the precious little life just a few feet away from you is actually yours. … Continue reading
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This is the last in a three part series, click here to read Part 1 and here to read Part 2. 3. Because mankind is sinful, every neighborhood has sin. “As it is written: ‘None is righteous, no, not one; … Continue reading