Episodes

  • The Martyrdom of John and Betty Stam

    The Martyrdom of John and Betty Stam
    Dec 25 2024
    In this week's episode of The Missions Podcast, Andrew Montonera, author of a new missionary biography on John and Betty Stam, talks about how their life and death impacted the Chinese church and a whole generation of Christians.
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    1 min
  • Making House Churches Work With Matt Lynskey

    Making House Churches Work With Matt Lynskey
    Dec 23 2024
    How does the house-church model work? What about a whole network of house churches? In this week's episode of The Missions Podcast, Alex and Scott talk with Matt Lynskey, a pastor and church planter in a network of house churches. Together, they talk about the Biblical model for house churches, how house churches can fit within the culture of a city, and how house churches can serve an evangelical and pastoral purpose. Matt Lynskey is a church planter and pastor of Noble City Church in York, PA. He's a former missionary to East Africa, has done translation work, taught at Lancaster Bible College, and founded Noble Collective, a church-based missionary society that plants churches, does pioneer evangelism, and trains ministry leaders. Want more of the conversation? Join our Premium Subscribers in the exclusive Overtime episode to talk over some of the challenges and logistics of running house churches. Become a Premium Subscriber at missionspodcast.com/premium. Help missionari
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    38 mins
  • Becoming at Home With House Churches

    Becoming at Home With House Churches
    Dec 18 2024
    This week on The Missions Podcast, Alex and Scott sit down with Matt Lynskey, a local pastor and church planter, to talk about how house churches can engage those who wouldn't normally walk into a typical church building. Do you love The Missions Podcast? Have you been blessed by the show? Then become a Premium Subscriber! Premium Subscribers get access to: Exclusive bonus content A community Signal thread with other listeners and the hosts Invite-only webinars A free gift! Support The Missions Podcast and sign up to be a Premium Subscriber at missionspodcast.com/premium The Missions Podcast is powered by ABWE. Learn more and take your next step in the Great Commission at abwe.org. Want to ask a question or suggest a topic? Email alex@missionspodcast.com.
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    1 min
  • What You Didn’t Know About D.L. Moody

    What You Didn’t Know About D.L. Moody
    Dec 16 2024
    How much do you know about D.L. Moody? In this week's episode of The Missions Podcast, Scott sits down with Gregg Quiggle, retired professor of Church History at Moody Bible Institute to talk about this critical figure in modern evangelicalism. They discuss how this simple man impacted, through speaking and writing, around 100 million people during his lifetime, was a figurehead in American evangelicalism, and seamlessly combined social initiatives with biblical gospel. Gregg Quiggle is a retired professor of Church History and Historical Theology at Moody Bible Institute. He also ran the Study Abroad program at Moody for 20 years. Currently, he runs a Christian History travel company, Quotelos Travel. He has recently released a biography on D.L. Moody titled, "Bread and Bibles". Gregg lives in Wheaton, Illinois. Explore your calling to global missions at ABWE's 24-Hour DEMO event. These events, held throughout the year, help individuals and churches explore how they can help fu
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    41 mins
  • The Forerunner of Modern Missions

    The Forerunner of Modern Missions
    Dec 11 2024
    In this week's episode of The Missions Podcast, Scott sits down with professor and historian Gregg Quiggle to talk about D.L. Moody and the critical effect he had on modern missions. Do you love The Missions Podcast? Have you been blessed by the show? Then become a Premium Subscriber! Premium Subscribers get access to: Exclusive bonus content A community Signal thread with other listeners and the hosts Invite-only webinars A free gift! Support The Missions Podcast and sign up to be a Premium Subscriber at missionspodcast.com/premium The Missions Podcast is powered by ABWE. Learn more and take your next step in the Great Commission at abwe.org. Want to ask a question or suggest a topic? Email alex@missionspodcast.com.
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    1 min
  • How to Get Students to Do Evangelism With Greg Stier

    How to Get Students to Do Evangelism With Greg Stier
    Dec 9 2024
    How do you mobilize students to evangelize to their friends? In this week's episode of The Missions Podcast, Scott sits down with Greg Stier, founder of Dare2Share, as they discuss the challenges and opportunities of equipping young people to effectively and passionately share the gospel. Greg Stier is an evangelist, speaker, author, and founder of Dare 2 Share Ministries. Dare 2 Share helps come alongside the Church to help equip teens to share their faith and youth leaders to build youth ministries that advance the Gospel. Greg is also the author of a newly released book, "Radical Like Jesus", and hosts the Radical Like Jesus Podcast. Become a Premium Subscriber and get access to the bonus Overtime episode where the conversation continues as Scott and Brian discuss how to start evangelistic conversations. Get access at missionspodcast.com/premium . With over 3 billion people in the world who have never heard of Jesus, the global need is tremendous for workers to go into the
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    33 mins
  • Are we in the Golden Age of Evangelism?

    Are we in the Golden Age of Evangelism?
    Dec 4 2024
    In this week's episode of The Missions Podcast, Scott Dunford sits down with Greg Stier, founder of Dare 2 Share, to discuss how to mobilize teenagers to share the gospel. Do you love The Missions Podcast? Have you been blessed by the show? Then become a Premium Subscriber! Premium Subscribers get access to: Exclusive bonus content A community Signal thread with other listeners and the hosts Invite-only webinars A free gift! Support The Missions Podcast and sign up to be a Premium Subscriber at missionspodcast.com/premium The Missions Podcast is powered by ABWE. Learn more and take your next step in the Great Commission at abwe.org. Want to ask a question or suggest a topic? Email alex@missionspodcast.com.
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    1 min
  • Defining the Missionary Call and Training With E.D. Burns

    Defining the Missionary Call and Training With E.D. Burns
    Dec 2 2024
    Have you ever felt called to be a missionary? In this episode of The Missions Podcast, Alex sits down with ABWE President Paul Davis and E.D. Burns to analyze the question, "What is a missionary"? They discuss the role of calling in a person's life, qualifications for missionaries, and how the local church and mission organizations can partner together to send missionaries well. E.D. Burns is a long-time missionary in unreached contexts, Professor, and prolific author of many works including: "Great Commission Spirituality", "The Missionary-Theologian", "Karmic Christianity", and many more. He currently resides in Southeast Asia working among an unreached people group and training ministry leaders to proclaim the gospel. Join the Overtime episode as Alex, Paul, and E.D. talk about crucial aspects of missionary training. Get access to that bonus episode and more perks of The Missions Podcast at missionspodcast.com/premium. God has already called many people to the mission fiel
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    40 mins