Darrow Miller
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Footings for Children is a curriculum for those who teach children in after-school clubs, Sunday schools, camps, and even home devotionals. It is designed to be adapted and applied in any cultural context, including settings where teaching aids and tools are limited.
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Category Archives: Great Commission
A FRESH LOOK at the Kingdom of God
In the DNA circles we talk about the kingdom a lot … because Jesus talked about the kingdom a lot. Every two years we have a DNA Global Forum. Colleagues and friends who are part of the DNA movement around … Continue reading
Create Something on Earth to Hang on Heaven’s Wall
When I was in school, my teachers in two subjects taught me the concept of transposition. In math we learned to move a number and its sign from one side of the equation to another. In music we learned to … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, Cultural Mandate, Culture, Discipleship, Great Commission, Kingdom, Music
Tagged earth, heaven, transcendent, transposition
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HOW DO WE MEASURE the Great Commission?
We don’t all measure the Great Commission the same way … and the differences aren’t trivial. I’m a big fan of John Piper and have been helped tremendously by his teaching. However, he recently wrote a paper, How Much is Left … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Discipleship, Evangelism, Great Commission, Mission
Tagged Christ, Discipleship, Great Commission, nations
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How Medical Aid Brought Gospel Transformation to One Community
As part of the DNA teaching on worldview, I share my “life message,” The Transforming Story. We talk about the need to tell the whole of the Biblical narrative and that our lives need to be understood and lived out … Continue reading
Where Do We Get Our Narrow View of the Gospel?
by Bob Moffitt The youth in a church in Central America wanted to provide a day care for their community. They knew that single mothers, with no place to leave their children to find work, were prostituting themselves in their … Continue reading
Tim Keller, Young Leaders, and the Mission of the Church
A vigorous conversation is happening today around the question, “What is the mission of the church?” A few weeks ago, Tim Keller addressed the topic in this blog post on the Redeemer City to City website. In the article Keller … Continue reading
The Villars Statement: Looking at Relief and Development from a Biblical Worldview
Almost a quarter century ago a group of scholars, relief and development practitioners, and missionaries gathered near L’Abri Fellowship in Villars, Switzerland, to discuss, debate, and reflect on the state of global hunger and poverty and the Christian response to … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Mandate, Development, Discipleship, Great Commission, Poverty, Worldview
Tagged relief and development; christianity; villars statement; biblical mandates for development; poverty; hunger; suffering; compassion; marxism; redistribution of wealth; opportunity; economics; causes of
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Halftime & No-huddle Offense: Two Football Metaphors for Today’s Church
A few years ago, I was privileged to worship with Dee and Allen Robbins at their church, Solid Rock Ministries, in Kona, Hawaii. I will never forget their Harley-riding pastor, James “Tex” Texeira. During his sermon, Tex asked the congregation … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Discipleship, Great Commission, Kingdom, Vocation, Worldview
Tagged Christianity, Church, Doggie Head Tilt, football, halftime, Kona, no huddle, Solid Rock Ministries, Vocation, work
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God, the Bible, and Political Justice … continued
As believers today, our struggle with a split concept of reality is often revealed in our dualism between the Old and New Testament. Jesus labors with our tendency towards this in Matthew 5: 17 “Do not think that I have come … Continue reading
God, the Bible and Political Justice
If we are to think like the God of the Bible we must begin where He begins. And God begins in Genesis with the creation of the cosmos, the earth, and everything in it. Just two chapters are dedicated to this space-and-time creation … Continue reading
