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Teleamigo is an evangelistic counseling and prayer ministry which we helped begin back in August 1993. Last night Teleamigo celebrated her 2...

In Teams that build movements Jay Lorenzen shares a motivational checklist for understanding what it is that motivates the people on our te...

Summer has arrived. We begin what is traditionally the season for volunteer groups coming down to help in our mission work. We are always gr...

Curtis Sergeant was the first to introduce me to the concept of IYKDWYBDYKGWYBG: If You Keep Doing What You’ve Been Doing, You’ll Keep Getti...

Of the 50+ "one anothers" in the New Testament, I am not aware of any that exhort us to listen to one another's stories. Yet, ...

I don't know about you, but I spend an enormous amount of time on paperwork and exchanging information with other people. In fact, as a ...

Chip and Dan Heath argue in Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and 0thers Die , that the great cruelty of the Curse of Knowledge is this:...

A few days ago the 150,000th page was clicked on the M Blog. I know this isn't a big deal to anyone else, but for me it represents a mil...

"Esteban" is a good friend and fellow IMB missionary serving in South America. He has written the following in a prayer letter th...

...from an email received from John White (Denver, CO)... I first learned the word "prevenience" from Eugene Peterson in his boo...

Bob Roberts recently shared some thoughts related to apostolic challenges which I found helpful. What do you think about what Bob shares? A...

As a Strategy Coordinator for the Guayas Mestizo people group, I have often benefited from the sound advise gleaned from Jay Lorenzen's...

I read Seth Godin's blog everyday. Recently he wrote this entry which I cannot stop thinking about. The closer you get to someone, som...

I just returned from a three-day pastor's conference in central Ecuador. It was an excellent time of seeing many old friends and hearing...