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A few weeks ago I saw a news story noting that the estimated world population is now over 7 billion. It’s an almost unfathomable number — it’s hard enough to wrap one’s mind around a million, let alone seven times a thousand times millions. And to think about it even further, 7 billion people with an average life span of 62.7 years are going to collectively live 434 billion years, or over 230 quadrillion minutes.

I was in Indianapolis last week to install a new chapter into GMO’s use of video — our first-ever remote studio. The basic idea is to create a video feed so that the staff there can join live webcasts that [MORE]

A few weeks ago, I was at lunch with some fellow GMO staff members when we started talking about something fun to do for Reformation Day (which, of course, lands on a more pagan holiday). I had been thinking for a while how we can make the whole person of Jesus Christ more central to our online mission work. And thus was born the idea of writing these “theses” for the digital mission; core principle I believe we must embrace to succeed in the opportunity God has given us.

What do you and I really mean when we talk about “the gospel?” Perhaps we’re referring to good old John 3:16, or maybe the Roman Road or Four Spiritual Laws. We might use “gospel” as shorthand for believing the Jesus died and rose again so that we can be forgiven and go to heaven. None of these things are wrong, but none are really “the good news.”

On the verge of suicide, Karl searched for God on the internet. He found a gospel website in Swedish created by Global Media Outreach. Martha, an online missionary, shared how Jesus had saved her when she wanted to commit suicide. [MORE]