What Can Johnny Appleseed Teach Us?: The Parable of the Soils from a Worldview Perspective – Part 1 – Tal Davis

For several years after my retirement from the North American Mission Board, along with my work with MarketFaith Ministries, I pastored a small church in Ellijay, Georgia. That area of northwest Georgia is well known for growing delicious apples. Before that time I did not know there are so many…
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Live with Urgency! – Part 2 – Doing Effective Missions in the 21st Century – Tal Davis

Early in World War II, the United States Marine Corps fighting in the Pacific found they had a serious problem. They discovered that when various units were communicating back and forth over the radio, the messages were being intercepted by Japanese intelligence officers who understood English. They would then pass…
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Live with Urgency! – Part 1 – Why Missions Matter – Tal Davis

I was not raised in an evangelical church. I did go to church regularly and attended Sunday School, but I always felt something was missing. In High School I accepted Jesus as my Savior through the ministry of a parachurch group. Later I began attending a Baptist church in my…
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