Replace the nutrients and taste with preservatives and slick packaging, and you can get the general public to eat just about anything. Something about the convenience of it all made frozen and dehydrated “prepared meals” commonplace in Western homes. After a couple generations raised on ready-made meals, obesity has become a first-world epidemic, and cooking actual food is something of [...]

Last week, we were visited by a church planting professor from one of our seminaries. He taught a seminar for some of the workers in our country as part of the IMB’s professor-exchange program. He shared church plating strategies and theories, and some basic principles from scripture. I sent our Journeymen. These girls have been great at building relationships and [...]

Marty Duren at SBC Outpost has written a short note about planning. I really liked what he had to say. Though he isn’t specifically talking about missions, his words got me thinking about everything I’ve been writing here. In my criticism of the Board’s current strategy, and my call for more step-by-step following of the Holy Spirit, do I sound [...]