Andy Naselli

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Episode 10 of Dispatches from the Front (set in the Middle East in southern Arabia and northern Iraq)

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The latest episode of the edifying and motivating Dispatches from the Front DVD Series releases on April 1: The Fourth Man.

Episode 10 is set in the Middle East in southern Arabia and northern Iraq, and it features our friends Dave and Gloria Furman (and others). When my DVD arrived in the mail, I promptly sat down with my daughters to watch it together. [Read more…] about Episode 10 of Dispatches from the Front (set in the Middle East in southern Arabia and northern Iraq)

Every Tribe: Episode 9 (Cambodia, Laos, & Vietnam) of Dispatches from the Front

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The latest episode of the edifying and motivating Dispatches from the Front DVD Series just released: Every Tribe  .

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The latest episode is set in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, and it features my dear friends Tim Keesee and J. D. Crowley. (J. D. and I recently coauthored the book Conscience.)

TimJD [Read more…] about Every Tribe: Episode 9 (Cambodia, Laos, & Vietnam) of Dispatches from the Front

John Piper’s Tribute to Tom Steller

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StellerPiperIn this picture from September 1, 2015, John Piper has his arm around Tom Steller. They are in a staff meeting for Bethlehem Baptist Church, and John Piper is praising God for Tom Steller’s serving Bethlehem for 35 years. Here’s a transcript of what Piper said:

I taught Bible at Bethel for six years, 1974–1980. Tom took six of my courses, four in Greek and two exegesis courses. (I know that because it’s in my journal.) And at the end of those six courses the die was cast for a lifetime of partnership in Christian Hedonism, and the Piper-Steller fabric began to be woven. We have loved and praised and served the same glorious God on the same basis of glorious Scripture for 40 years together. [Read more…] about John Piper’s Tribute to Tom Steller

No Regrets, No Retreat: Episode 8 (China) of Dispatches from the Front DVD Series

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The latest episode of the edifying and motivating Dispatches from the Front DVD Series released last Friday: No Regrets, No Retreat   . It is set in China.

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100-second trailer:

My wife and three daughters enjoyed watching this episode together on Easter a few weeks ago.

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By the way, Tim Keesee just launched his own website, which includes a blog. He tells the backstory about this episode on China in his post “Beginning with Impossible.”

Related: Stories of Gospel Advance in the World’s Difficult Places

Dispatches from the Front: Stories of Gospel Advance in the World’s Difficult Places

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dispatchesJustin Taylor describes my friend Tim Keesee exactly right in his foreword to Tim’s new book:

Tim Keesee. Dispatches from the Front: On Gospel Transformation, Suffering, and Witness. Wheaton: Crossway, 2014.

(You may recall Tim Keesee from his telling the stories in the Dispatches from the Front DVDs by Frontline Missions.)

Here’s Justin Taylor’s foreword (pp. 11–13): [Read more…] about Dispatches from the Front: Stories of Gospel Advance in the World’s Difficult Places

New Dispatches from the Front DVD: The Power of His Rising

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The newest film in the Dispatches from the Front series is episode 6: The Power of His Rising .

Trailer:

I love these DVDs because they widen my limited perspective on how God is working right now in other places in the world.

My family watched episode 6 a few weeks ago and loved it. It focuses on how a Christian family from South Carolina is spreading the gospel in a “closed” country in South Asia, gaining access with their business skills to operate an excellent coffee shop. Ingenious. [Read more…] about New Dispatches from the Front DVD: The Power of His Rising