If your missions conversations sound alarmist and pessimistic, you’re doing it wrong.

So exciting! In studying world religions too, it’s best to go “ad fontes.” Coursework in the original languages makes that possible. #trustedfortruth, Southern Seminary, Billy Graham School

Y’all I’ve stayed in hotels so fancy not even Einstein could figure out how to turn on and off the lights.

Maybe I’m biased, but I’d say this is especially true for would-be missionaries. Billy Graham School, SBTS Bevin Center

Writing a paper without Zotero is a baller move. Writing one without the provided template is straight up savage.

“Christianity is the most inclusive exclusivist belief system in the world.” Nathan G. Sloan (The Upstream Collective) This morning Sojourn Church Midtown. Nailed it.

Welp, accidentally watched Hamilton again 😭 I still can’t help but identify with Burr. His “wait for it” mentality is kinda good sometimes, right?

Take every American interested in missions, put them all in theological education in the Global South, and it still wouldn’t be near enough.

All love to our friends across the Tiber, but Ascension auto-subscribing me and sending out six spams in the first two minutes is a little thirsty, right?

Welp, our crate arrived from Prague, so I guess we’re doing this emotional roller coaster all over again 😅

Our four-year-old thinks this year before kindergarten is called “pretty-school,” and if anyone corrects her, I swear!

We only have about six hangers to each article of clothing in the house, so we should probably buy more, right?

May we see fully healthy, theologically mature churches planted in the Majority World. And may they reproduce themselves as rapidly as possible.

Pastor, with your summer mission trips wrapped up, remember to foster your people’s hearts for the nations year round!

Every day your missionaries serve on fronts where they’re outgunned, outmanned, outnumbered, and out-planned. But don’t worry, God had a strategy going way before they got there.

“You don’t learn to swim by reading about water.” Sure, but ministry isn’t swimming. Missionary training has to include rich learning and rigorous thought work. SBTS Bevin Center, Billy Graham School

What a day! I especially loved the shoutout to my buddy, Ayman Ibrahim (Ibrahim). Islamic studies Southern Seminary/Billy Graham School is unmatched!

A visitor to our mission field once said, “We’ll only help in evangelism cause that church planting thing just happens.”