I went to a Christian college back in the 1980s. At that school, Hal Lindsay was all the rage. He promoted a certain type of understanding of the future, and particularly a way of reading he Book of Revelation in the Bible. I knew this understanding as "PreTrib PreMill" but the more formal encapsulating term …
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I decided to embrace a bit of curiosity and figure out what posts of mine were the most popular (best?) for each year this website has been in existence. It just hit 15 years. In terms of calendar years, then, I have posts from 2010 to 2025 2025Inculturation, Enculturation, Acculturation, and Morehttps://munsonmissions.org/2025/02/06/inculturation-enculturation-and-acculturation/2024Sermon: “Every Christian is …
Before I start talking about missions and its awkward relationship to Thanos, I must clarify that I am speaking of "Movie-Thanos." Others have noted this, but Thanos in comics was very different. I used to collect comic books, and one series I collected was "Captain Marvel." This was the Captain Marvel of the 1960s Marvel …
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I began teaching "Foundations of Holistic Missions" at Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary. It is a class I enjoy, and I think it is useful for any Christian seeking to serve God in the world--- not just for Mission Students. As I was prepping for the class, I reviewed the Five Marks of Mission that was …
There is a well-known story of David Livingstone the missionary/explorer, that when he died, locals prepared his body and carried it a great distance, around 1500 kilometers, so that it could be shipped back to England. This was by the request of the British government. However, his heart did not go with the rest of …
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I feel like I should dust off one of my Missiology books before writing this one… but I won’t. The thing is that Christian Missions as it is commonly identified today (at least the Evangelical Protestant flavor that predominates) sees Christian missions driven by Eschatology. Estchatology is the study of future or last things. In …
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I have been reading "Environmental Missions: Planting Churches AND Trees" by Lowell Bliss. I have finished 5 chapters. I have 8 more to go, not including Epilogue and Appendices. Still I have some thoughts. Onethat is very obvious is that Lowell Bliss knows his audience. He is writing to Evangelical Christians, and with perhaps an …
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At church a few weeks ago our pastor was speaking about God's command to love one another. He then brought it around to politics. He spoke of the two major parties in the US (I am in the US right now, but will be soon going back to the Philippines). He said something like: "And …
Justinian Von Welz, a Protestant missiologist before all but a few Protestants even thought much about Christian Missions, wrote a treatise in 1664. The English translation of the title is "Christian and Sincere Admonition to All Orthodox Christians of the Augsburg Confession Concerning a Special Society through which with the Help of God Our Evangelical …
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My wife and I oversee a pastoral counseling center that trains ministers in Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE). I also teach some mission courses at a couple of seminaries here in the Philippines. A saying (one I coined as far as I know) is "Nobody Becomes a Pastoral Because They Like to Listen." Similar thoughts could …
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