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“Honor, Shame and the Gospel”—six-week class at Scottsdale Bible Church...
I am so grateful for my home church, Scottsdale Bible, which has provided me the opportunity to teach a class based on my book, The Global Gospel. The class will incorporate lecture with PowerPoint,...
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New series of short videos on honor and shame
Click here to view the embedded video. Some quick videos on honor-shame During my last week in New Zealand (I was there March 4–20), my host Russell Thorp of GC3 said, “Let’s do some quick videos about...
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Quick video: Two sources of honor—ascribed and achieved
Click here to view the embedded video. If you want to gain an awareness of honor-shame in the Bible and what it implies for the gospel, there is nothing more important than understanding this: There...
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Quick video: Challenge and riposte
Click here to view the embedded video. Here is a quick description of the honor-shame dynamic called the “challenge and riposte”. “Riposte” is a term used in the sport of fencing, meaning “a quick...
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Free article, free chart: Five levels of awareness of honor-shame in...
H/S-1 to H/S-5: Levels of awareness of honor-shame in cross-cultural ministry In April 2015, Evangelical Missions Quarterly (EMQ) published my article H/S-1 to H/S-5: Levels of Awareness of Honor/Shame...
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Quick video: Body language
Click here to view the embedded video. Here is a quick description of the honor-shame dynamic that I call “body language”. In the world of the Ancient Near East and Roman Empire the most honorable...
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Jesus Makes Us Clean
I’ve just redesigned my blog. I wanted a new look, and also wanted it to be easier for readers using tablets and smartphones. Hope you like the new design. The banner photo comes from our trip to Spain...
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Honor and shame in the book of Genesis––#1: The honor of God as Creator
With this blog post I begin a series on what I call the “top ten honor-shame dynamics in the book of Genesis”. #1. The honor of God as Creator We begin with the Bible’s first verse. In the beginning,...
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Save the date for the 2017 Honor-Shame Conference
Don’t miss the first Honor-Shame Conference! You are invited to the inaugural conference of the Honor-Shame Network—a community to learn and work together for the sake of the gospel. Professors and...
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Honor and shame in the book of Genesis––#2: The honor of work
This is the second in a series about honor and shame in the book of Genesis. You’ll benefit from reading this in your browser. I encourage you to read all the way to the bottom—where you will be...
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It starts next week, April 5th—honor-shame webinar curriculum
Journey of Discovery in Honor, Shame, and the Gospel We are eager here at Mission ONE to begin offering the webinar curriculum, “Journey of Discovery in Honor, Shame, and the Gospel”, starting April...
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Answering three questions from the first class
We had our first honor-shame webinar class yesterday. Here are three questions I received from one participant after the class: 1. You mentioned that ‘law’ is important in the guilt/innocence...
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Under 30, more shame?
I received a question from a pastor in Oregon who is participating in our webinar curriculum, “Journey of Discovery in Honor, Shame, and the Gospel.” His question: Can you address why/how those under...
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Arabic version of The Father’s Love Gospel Booklet available now. Save 20%...
Now you can simply share the gospel with Arabic-speaking people—using The Father’s Love Booklet, Arabic edition. Our Mission ONE partner has distributed thousands of these booklets in the Middle East....
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Resuming webinar classes next week: “Journey of Discovery in Honor, Shame,...
Unit B starts Thursday May 24 (see Unit A content below) The six classes of Unit B (classes 7–12) in “Journey of Discovery in Honor, Shame, and the Gospel” begins next week—on May 24th. Miss a webinar...
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The God-centered way that the “concept of face” overlaps with the gospel
This blog post is an excerpt from chapter 3.5 of my book, The Global Gospel, pages 242–244. This constitutes a summary I wrote (admittedly, an exceedingly brief summary) of Jackson Wu’s Saving God’s...
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Toxic shame has its own neurobiology. The gospel offers a cure.
A review of The Soul of Shame by Curt Thompson, MD Curt Thompson’s The Soul of Shame: Retelling the Stories We Believe About Ourselves (IVP, 2015) addresses the pathology of toxic shame and its cure....
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Highly recommended: Jackson Wu’s new article on objective and subjective...
I want to point you to what I believe is an extremely significant article from Jackson Wu. The article appears in the current issue of Themelios, which is the online theology journal of The Gospel...
View ArticleBrilliant conversation about Paul’s message of the cross in the social...
I listened to a podcast recently: “How Saint Paul Changed the World.” This podcast (also in video, below) is chock full of wonderful insights. The podcast conversation features two brilliant...
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Brief thoughts on five misunderstandings about honor-shame
The five “misunderstandings” below are followed by my thoughts on why they are incorrect or incomplete. –wm MISUNDERSTANDING #1: “Honor-shame is first of all about reaching people like Muslims in...
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