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Mark D. Roberts

Part 9 of series: The Mission of God and the Missional Church Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series In my last two posts I’ve been explaining how we who believe in Jesus have been sent by Him to share His good news with others. In my last post I said that one…

Part 7 of series: The Mission of God and the Missional Church Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series Like Jesus, we have been sent to proclaim the good news. In addition to telling His disciples to wait for the Spirit to empower them, Jesus explained what the Spirit’s power would accomplish: When…

Part 5 of series: The Mission of God and the Missional Church Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series In my last two posts I summarized the mission of Jesus. In a nutshell: 1. Jesus was sent by God in the power of the Holy Spirit. 2. Jesus was sent to proclaim the…

Part 3 of series: The Mission of God and the Missional Church Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series If you were to ask the average Christian, “What was the mission of Jesus?” you’d no doubt hear that Jesus came to die on the cross for our sins, so that we might have…

Part 1 of series: The Mission of God and the Missional Church Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series Note: I began this series a couple of months ago, but became distracted by other issues. The content is important enough to warrant completion of the series. But if I simply picked up where…

Excerpt Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved. Psalm 55:22 Click here to read all of Psalm 55 Prayer O Lord, what a welcome invitation! Not only am I set free from carrying my burden alone, but also my partner in burden-bearing…

If you’ve been following my blog in the past few days, you know I’ve been developing an analogy that helps to explain why we can have confidence in the oral traditions about Jesus. So far, here’s what I have: You are diagnosed with terminal cancer. But your doctor gives you a ray of hope. If…

In my last two posts I’ve been developing an analogy that helps to explain why we can trust that the oral traditions about Jesus accurately passed along what He really did and said. Here’s what I have so far: You are diagnosed with terminal cancer. But your doctor gives you a ray of hope. If…

In my last post I began to explain why we can trust the accuracy of the oral traditions about Jesus, using the following analogy: You are diagnosed with terminal cancer. But your doctor gives you a ray of hope. If you can go and hear a lecture by a famed cancer researcher, you will receive…

Today I did an hour’s interview with Greg Koukl, president of Stand to Reason, a Christian apologetics ministry. Greg is one of my favorite apologists, not only because he’s very smart, but also because he believes in careful and calm discourse. Over the years I’ve enjoyed listening to him on the radio. The focus of…
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