After learning about the death of my friend, I have been asking myself, why am I still here and he is not? Why am I not on the other side like so many people who take their lives every day? I am sure that I am privileged to be alive today.

The summer of 2024 has been a unique time, and we thank God for all that he did through this period and also for the fruit he will produce.

Good discipleship includes knowing how to pray and reflect on politics and engage as good citizens. 

My pilgrimage started on the other side of the world and has taken me from place to place before eventually starting a new Fountain tribe in the Netherlands. 

In Switzerland, the Green politician caused a scandal last weekend when she shot a picture of Mary with the baby Jesus and then published it on social media.

In preaching, whichever camp you choose to set up your homiletical tent in, be sure to benefit from what is good about the other group too.

Adaptive leadership is a way to ensure that a church, mission agency, or organization thrives no matter how stormy the times are characterized by local and global realities.

‘YWAM Together 2024’ convened 4,500 folk from 110 nations in Manila. Missionaries from countries closed to the gospel 75 years ago today, are going to the least, the last and the lost in every corner of the world. 

The Czech writer shows us the reality of the modern human being, who, thrown into existence in a world he does not understand, lacks direction.

In The Rings of Power it is not clear where the evil comes from. A much deeper presentation of the problem than the classic pagan vision of an eternal, impersonal force that simply exists to oppose good.

We need an army of pragmatic Marthas, ready to serve and love their neighbour because they have first been an army of devoted Marys.

Rethinking the international agency model in the pursuit of mutual mission sending partnerships.

We are living through the waning and final phase of Pope Francis, and the topic of the future is not just an abstract exercise.

What amazing growth has happened both in YWAM and the majority world church in these past fifty-plus years! 

Advertising accounts for only 20% of our annual budget. We are looking for kingdom-minded partners who want to see ‘Evangelical Focus’ thrive.

 If my heart is concerned about what people think of me, I may well be blind to the truth of the text I claim to understand and then proclaim to others.

Preventing abuse and misuse of power in Christian ministry.

Paralympics are declaring to the world that social value and human dignity are not rooted in physical perfection. 

Some 270 young people from 30 countries joined local Christians in a 10-day street effort to share the Christian message throughout the Czech capital.

Chinantec evangelicals attacked for having a chosen religious identity that goes against the traditional one are denied their constitutional rights by Oaxacan officials.

The joyful and courageous way in which the German Olympic gold medalist in the shot put has publicly expressed her faith is a lesson for all European Christians.

In July, I attended two back-to-back bitcoin conferences in Nashville. I wanted to learn how Christian and non-Christian audiences think about the latest innovative monetary technology, bitcoin.

While some worldviews may be closer to a biblical understanding of reality than others, they are still the wrong map.

Looking back, it is clear that we are already extravagantly loved as God’s children.  Looking forward, we discover that our revelation as the bride of Christ is still to come.

The missional flourishing in the Majority World or Global South should not be seen as missional privilege but the positioning of all God’s people to be servant partners.