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Mission Beyond the Pacific

Note: This article first appeared on the TLI website as the second in a four-part series about diaspora ministry. (Here is the first article in the series.) The Presbyterian Church founded the Japanese Presbyterian Mission in San Francisco in the 1880s. Their immediate goal was to reach the issei—Japanese immigrants to North America—who had recentlyContinue reading “Mission Beyond the Pacific”

Confession-Driven Missions

Note: This book review first appeared in Credo Magazine. The “Three Forms of Unity” mentioned in the subtitle to Bredenhof’s book, To Win Our Neighbors for Christ: The Missiology of the Three Forms of Unity (Reformation Heritage Books), is the collective name given to the Belgic Confession (1561), the Heidelberg Catechism (1563), and the Canons of theContinue reading “Confession-Driven Missions”

Systematic Theology I: The Revelation of the Trinity (Video 4)

This Fourth video from the Systematic Theology I course that I taught in S. Asia deals with the question of when was the Trinity revealed. It’s a fascinating topic, and that has drawn me in more and more as I’ve thought about it. You may have noticed that nowhere in Scripture does God shout downContinue reading “Systematic Theology I: The Revelation of the Trinity (Video 4)”

Systematic Theology I: Being and Knowing (Video 3)

This is the third video (of fifteen!) that I made for the ST1 course that I recently taught for a school in S. Asia. The topic here is, broadly, “Being & Knowing” as the title suggests, but this takes us into such load-bearing elements as the Creator/creature distinction, general & special revelation, archetypal & ectypalContinue reading “Systematic Theology I: Being and Knowing (Video 3)”

Systematic Theology I: Heads of Doctrine (Video 2)

Here’s the second video for the Systematic Theology I course that I recently taught remotely for a school in S. Asia. In this video (the second of the course) I discuss why we might want to study systematic theology and also what sort of things we talk about in systematics—what we sometimes call “heads ofContinue reading “Systematic Theology I: Heads of Doctrine (Video 2)”

Systematic Theology I: Introduction (Video 1)

In March I was honored (really!) to get to teach the first of three systematics course for a school that we partner with in S. Asia. I could spend hours telling you how amazing these guys are and how much I believe that the work they are doing will have a lasting impact. Don’t worry,Continue reading “Systematic Theology I: Introduction (Video 1)”