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)
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.)
[Read more…] about Every Tribe: Episode 9 (Cambodia, Laos, & Vietnam) of Dispatches from the Front
The latest episode of the edifying and motivating Dispatches from the Front DVD Series released last Friday: No Regrets, No Retreat 
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My wife and three daughters enjoyed watching this episode together on Easter a few weeks ago.
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
The latest episode of the edifying and motivating Dispatches from the Front DVD Series released last month: Day of Battle . It is set in North Africa.
Related: Stories of Gospel Advance in the World’s Difficult Places
Justin 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
The newest film in the Dispatches from the Front series is episode 6: The Power of His Rising 
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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
This sale ends on Friday, June 14, at 4:00 PM ET.
Here’s what D. A. Carson and John Piper say about the series:
D. A. Carson: Dispatches from the Front is a thoughtful, moving, understated, and ultimately convicting series of videos depicting the work of the gospel in some of the most challenging corners of the world. Far from glorying in celebrity missions, the stories in these videos depict the transforming power of the gospel of Jesus Christ, sometimes in the teeth of virulent opposition. Here are brothers and sisters in Christ who in God’s grace display faithfulness and transcendent joy, unflagging zeal to share the gospel, and an unfettered allegiance to King Jesus. To watch the kingdom advance in the teeth of these challenges is to learn humility and rekindle contrition, faith, and intercessory prayer.
John Piper: Beware of watching these “dispatches” if you don’t like being moved and inspired and shaken out of the ruts of your life. My wife and I were riveted in watching the frontline reports of God’s work recorded in the Dispatches from the Front. This is the sort of information that builds faith in the present providence of God over his mission, and stirs up action for the sake of lost and hurting people near and far. I would love to see thousands of people mobilized as senders and goers for the sake of the glory of Christ and the relief of suffering on the frontiers, especially eternal suffering.
I’ve blogged about this series here. See also . . . [Read more…] about Sale on Dispatches from the Front DVDs
Yesterday I watched the premiere of the latest Dispatches from the Front film by Frontline Missions:
Episode 5: Father, Give Me Bread
It’s on Ethiopia and South Sudan, and it’s excellent.
Here’s a preview:
See my post on Episodes 1–4. [Read more…] about A New Dispatches from the Front Film