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The Most Beautiful Woman

I had met her before.  In fact, I’d been to her house to visit.  She, along with her husband at […]

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31 March 2025

Ardis Kuik Brazil evangelism W.H. Bredenhof

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China Mission Memoir

The Most Unlikely Missionaries: Serving God’s Kingdom in the Middle Kingdom, J.M. Gurvsy.  Ross-shire: Christian Focus Publications, 2023.  Softcover, 219 […]

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17 March 2025

China J.M. Gurvsy

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Declare His Glory

I’m in Western Australia at the moment and this morning I had the opportunity to attend the book launch for […]

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12 October 2023

Declare His Glory Harry Kleyn indigenous Australians mission history

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Missionaries Ought to be Professionals

No Shortcut to Success: A Manifesto for Modern Missions, Matt Rhodes.  Wheaton: Crossway, 2022.  Softcover, 270 pages. Before arriving on […]

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4 September 2023

Church Planting Movements David Watson John Ryland Matt Rhodes William Carey

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Motivation for Mission

God Shines Forth: How the Nature of God Shapes and Drives the Mission of the Church, Daniel Hames and Michael […]

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3 March 2023

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Another Notable Funeral at Westminster Abbey

This past Monday was the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.  Like all royal funerals, it was held in the historic […]

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21 September 2022

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The First Christian Convert in Greenland

The first Moravian missionaries went to Greenland to preach the gospel in about 1720. They taught the Greenlandic Inuit about […]

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15 August 2022

Greenlandic Inuit history of mission John Beck Kajarnack

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Missional and Reformed — 10 Theses

One of my passions is mission and evangelism.  I suppose this makes sense since I started my ministry as a […]

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10 November 2021

For the Cause of the Son of God outward looking church Thom Rainer To Win Our Neighbors For Christ

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The First Mark and Mission

Of the Belgic Confession’s articles on the doctrine of the church, article 29 is probably the most well-known amongst Reformed […]

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7 June 2021

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Don’t Share Your Faith?

Sharing the gospel isn’t only a biblical imperative, it’s also something every Christian should instinctively want to do.  If you […]

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18 May 2021

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Every Believer Evangelism

“Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word.”  Acts 8:4 Reformed Christians have sometimes been accused of being […]

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23 March 2021

Acts 8:4 evangelism frozen chosen

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Can Prophets Be Mimes?

What if I told you Christians don’t have a personal responsibility to spread the gospel?  Amongst most Christians such a […]

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15 March 2021

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Mission and Reformed Covenant Theology

I don’t normally review multi-author collections of essays and this isn’t going to be an exception to that. I just […]

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9 March 2021

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Another Nail in the Coffin of Some Wrong History

Luther, Calvin and the Mission of the Church: The Mission Theology and Practice of the Protestant Reformers, Thorsten Prill. GRIN […]

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9 February 2021

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Rev. Wes Bredenhof (B.A., M.Div., Th.D.) is pastor of the Free Reformed Church in Launceston, Tasmania. Read More
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Books by Wes Bredenhof

Get to Know the Holy Spirit

Published 2024

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Aiming to Please

Published 2020

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Seven Wondrous Words

Published 2019

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