The Missions Show

What missiology books belong on your bookshelf? In this week's episode of The Missions Podcast, Alex and Scott sit down with Chris Howles for the 2025 edition of essential reads in global missions. Chris offers a knowledgeable, diverse, and thought-provoking list of books that any serious missions-minded person should be reading.

Top Missiology Books.

10. The Sending Church Applied by Bradley Bell, Mike Easton, Larry McCrary & Nathan Sloan (Upstream Collective, 2024)

9. People Vision - Reimagining Mission to Least Reached Peoples by Leonard Bartlotti (William Carey Publishing, 2024)

8. Africa Bears Witness: Mission Theology and Praxis in the 21st Century by Harvey Kwiyani (Langham Global Library, 2024)

7. Window on the World - An Operation World Prayer Guide by Jason Mandryk and Molly Wall (IVP, 2018)

6. People On The Move by Sam George (Lausanne Movement, 2024)

5. Knowing God To Make Him Known by Ed Scheuerman (Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2021)

4. Why Evangelical Theology Needs The Global Church by Stephen Pardue (Baker Academic, 2023)

3. Women in the Mission of the Church by Leanne Dzubinski and Anneke Stasson (Baker Academic, 2021)

2. Apologetics In Africa: An Introduction by Kevin Muriithi Ndereba (Hippobooks, 2024)

Chris Howles is the Director of Cross-Cultural Training at Oak Hill College. He is a former missionary in Uganda.

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In this week's episode of The Missions Podcast, Alex and Scott sit down with returning guest, Chris Howles, as he talks about the must-read books for any missions-minded reader in 2025.

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What have we learned from studying giants of the faith in 2024? In this special episode of The Missions Podcast, Alex and Scott analyze key takeaways from their favorite guests and topics in 2024. They discuss important figures in missions history, impactful guests on the show, and reveal their 2025 theme for the podcast.

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In this week's episode, Alex and Scott reflect on the theme for 2024 of "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" and all of the things they've learned by talking about heroes of the faith.

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Would you be prepared to die for the gospel? In this week's episode of The Missions Podcast, Alex and Scott sit down with Andrew Montonera, author of a new missionary biography on John and Betty Stam. They discuss the tragic story of the Stam's martyrdom in China (1934), the ordinariness of their lives, and the impact that their story has on Chinese Christians today.

Andrew Montonera is the great grand nephew of John Stam. Upon finding a collection of old books owned by John and Betty Stam, Andrew felt called to write a new missionary biography, "By Life or By Death", about their incredible life and death.

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With over 3 billion people in the world who have never heard of Jesus, the global need is tremendous for workers to go into the harvest fields (Matthew 9:37-38). Is God calling you to missions? We'd love to have a conversation with you on how you can use your gifts and talents to advance the Great Commission at home and abroad. Visit abwe.org/SendMe for more information and to take your next step in missions.

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In this week's episode of The Missions Podcast, Andrew Montonera, author of a new missionary biography on John and Betty Stam, talks about how their life and death impacted the Chinese church and a whole generation of Christians.

How does the house-church model work? What about a whole network of house churches? In this week's episode of The Missions Podcast, Alex and Scott talk with Matt Lynskey, a pastor and church planter in a network of house churches. Together, they talk about the Biblical model for house churches, how house churches can fit within the culture of a city, and how house churches can serve an evangelical and pastoral purpose.

Matt Lynskey is a church planter and pastor of Noble City Church in York, PA. He's a former missionary to East Africa, has done translation work, taught at Lancaster Bible College, and founded Noble Collective, a church-based missionary society that plants churches, does pioneer evangelism, and trains ministry leaders.

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This week on The Missions Podcast, Alex and Scott sit down with Matt Lynskey, a local pastor and church planter, to talk about how house churches can engage those who wouldn't normally walk into a typical church building.

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How much do you know about D.L. Moody? In this week's episode of The Missions Podcast, Scott sits down with Gregg Quiggle, retired professor of Church History at Moody Bible Institute to talk about this critical figure in modern evangelicalism. They discuss how this simple man impacted, through speaking and writing, around 100 million people during his lifetime, was a figurehead in American evangelicalism, and seamlessly combined social initiatives with biblical gospel.

Gregg Quiggle is a retired professor of Church History and Historical Theology at Moody Bible Institute. He also ran the Study Abroad program at Moody for 20 years. Currently, he runs a Christian History travel company, Quotelos Travel. He has recently released a biography on D.L. Moody titled, "Bread and Bibles". Gregg lives in Wheaton, Illinois.

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In this week's episode of The Missions Podcast, Scott sits down with professor and historian Gregg Quiggle to talk about D.L. Moody and the critical effect he had on modern missions.

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