Andy Upton is the pastor of Knighton Evangelical Free Church in Leicester. He spoke on Saturday morning on Matthew 6:11-12 The heartbeat of mission is dependence on God. Think of the disciples sent out without any provisions, or Hudson Taylor and George Mueller. The order of the Lord’s...
Andy Upton is the pastor of Knighton Evangelical Free Church in Leicester. He spoke on Friday morning on Matthew 6:10. Introduction: No one finds prayer easy. Some have learned to delight in it and enjoy it. But it’s never easy. Why? One reason is that we don’t believe that it...
On Mission With Jesus – Max Tykhonov (Ukraine) What does the Bible say about Jesus as a missionary? It would be odd if we only look to the apostles for an example of missions. Jesus is the founder of our mission, the catalyst of our mission, and the content of our...
There are a lot of awesome missions groups out there, but here are five reasons I particularly enjoy being involved in the Radstock network: Money. Radstock does a lot of good work with a ridiculously small amount of money. There are no full-time administrative employees. There are no offices...
There's some sturm und drang these days about the role of mercy ministry in the life of the church. And I can totally understand why. Evangelicals keep flirting with the temptation to put gospel proclamation and social action on equal footing, as if we can do one and not the other. I think...
There's a great post over at the 9Marks blog on the ways that humility must inform our missiology. Check it out here.
In God's providence, our church is located in an ethnically and economically diverse area. It wasn't that way when it was established in 1857, but the world has changed quite a bit since then. Now we have huge populations of recent Asian and Latin American immigrants all around...
Mike McKinley is pastor of Guilford Baptist Church in Virginia USA and a Radstock Trustee. This post can also be found on the 9 Marks Blog. Jesus tells us to be careful how we hear (Luke 8:18). Yet many Christians approach the Sunday sermon with little to no game-plan for...
Herndon, Virginia is a tense place. Twenty years ago it was a fairly quiet far suburb of Washington DC. Now, to hear some people say it, it is over-run with illegal immigrants. Every morning the parking lot of McDonald's and the adjacent convenience store are flooded with men looking for a...
The church that I pastor is located in Northern Virginia, about a half hour outside of Washington, DC. We have a great and increasingly common mission field: our own backyard. The neighborhood in which our church is situated is about 70% immigrant, mostly Latin American and Asian Indian. Our...