Transformational Development in Peru

I have often been impressed with the way the Chalmers Center works through indigenous churches to help locals come to understand their own abilities, resources, and dignity while helping them emerge from impoverished circumstances.  Their recent newsletter showcased one example of a Peruvian group experiencing the satisfying results of beginning to save for the coming [...]

Another Christmas Reflection

As my daughter and I went on a sunset stroll last week, I began singing some Christmas carols and landed on “Joy to the World” – a song that we spent a good deal of time reflecting on last January. As I began singing the third verse, I was so encouraged to be reminded that [...]

Great Commission Utlitarianism, Part 4

Work and Wealth
In the biblical framework of oikonomia, work and the creation of wealth are intrinsically good and are to contribute to the end – the telos – to which all of history is moving: the Glory of God, and the return of Christ and his kingdom.
The work of human beings is carried forward from [...]

Darrow Interviewed by Marvin Olasky in Dec. 5 Edition of World Magazine

Those of you who subscribe to World Magazine will find in the current edition (December 5, 2009, Vol. 24, No. 24)  a two-page interview between Darrow and Marvin Olasky focused on themes from Darrow’s new book LifeWork. If you don’t subscribe to World, you can read the article on the World website here.
Darrow also spoke about LifeWork [...]

Darrow Shares Important Lessons from his Time in Peru

October 15th, 2009
Extracted from Darrow Miller’s Memoirs during his recent visit to teach in Peru.
I have been encouraged and gratified by the numbers of people who have come up to me to say that they have read Discipling Nations or have attended a conference, and about the impact that the school of thought has had [...]

The Sanctity of Work

One ministry that learned of our work has started to send me their periodic updates via email. When I received this newsletter, I wanted to share and highlight what they have been learning and the impact they’re having on the world around them with you.  At Romanian Orphan Ministries, they have been learning about the [...]

DNA Materials Mysteriously Appear in Kabul

A friend of mine recently returned from Afghanistan where he worked as a consultant for a major relief and development organization. While spending the night at a Christian guest house in Kabul, he saw sitting on a coffee table, a lesson from the Disciple Nations Alliance “Worldview and Development” curriculum that had been translated into [...]

Christianity as a Worldview

Good words from Chuck Colson:
“Many evangelicals define faith strictly in terms of personal salvation. Yet soul-winning is not an end in itself. We are not only saved from sin, we are also saved to something—to the task of cultivating God’s creation. Genesis teaches that on the first five days, God did the work of creating. But [...]

Vishal Mangalwadi on “The Bible Answer Man”

Vishal Mangalwadi will be on Hank Hannegraaff’s “The Bible Answer Man” radio program Thursday, October 8 and Friday, October 9. Here’s what Hank recently wrote about the book:
Every now and then I come across a book that is “must reading!” And that is precisely what happened this week. The book, titled Truth and Transformation, was [...]

Pro-Life Advocate Gunned Down

I want to take time to acknowledge and mourn the death of James Pouillon, a pro-life advocate who was gunned down as he peacefully protested outside of a high school in Michigan this September. While the media intensely covered the death of late-term abortion practitioner, George Tiller, the media along with abortion advocates have been [...]