Christian Emergency Podcast

International Christian missions is both exciting and critical. Through evangelical missionaries, the Gospel penetrates new tribes, tongues and cultures. Churches are planted, people are saved from their sins – the Kingdom of Christ advances. As exciting and important as it is, few Christians feel like they have a solid grasp on the methods and practices that go into missions. Consequently, pastor...

On this encore episode of the Christian Emergency Podcast, we are joined by David Goodwin, president of the Association of Classical Christian Schools and co-author of the book, Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation . If you find this material helpful, please share it with your friends and leave us a five-star rating wherever you listen to your podcasts. Also, don’t for...

From 2016 to 2018, Andrew Brunson struggled inside Turkish prisons. For the previous 23 years, the American and his wife had served as missionaries with Turkey’s small Christian community. But when he was imprisoned on false charges – and then pondered the very real prospect that he would be separated from his family for the rest of his life – Andrew descended into spiritual crisis. In today’s epi...

How can Christians live joyfully in a wild world? How can you make your home a safe harbor in disturbing times? Believers around the world might take a tip or two from Tom Bombadil, the enigmatic character of J.R.R. Tolkien’s famous trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. Peter Jackson may not have included Tom in his movies, but Tolkien believed he played an important role. C.R. Wiley, pastor and author,...

Christians today live in an era of great division. In some respects, that is good. The Church is being sifted. That which is false is being shaken free from the firm. But in some cases, division is simply destructive. In our spiritual war, our enemy exaggerates disputes to inflame infighting amongst brothers. We must be on guard against this. Andy delves into this important topic, noting that a st...

What should you know about the Qur’an? How do Muslims think and view the world around them? How could a better understanding help when it comes to our relationships with neighbors, our Christian witness and even missions? Matt Bennett, a former missionary in the Middle East, joins the Christian Emergency Podcast to answer these questions.  Now a professor at Cedarville University, Matt shares help...

The Real David Platt, a documentary produced by the Church Reform Initiative, was recently released, exposing problems that have arisen at McLean Bible Church. The megachurch near Washington D.C. has grappled with many challenges since David Platt assumed its helm. David Platt, the acclaimed author of Radical, is what some would call a “celebrity pastor.” But what has become of McLean - the once v...

Christians in much of the world today face pressures. Few, however, face anything as intense as those Christians who lived under the first few decades of authoritarian rule in either the Soviet Union or Communist China. At least not yet. While freedom and opportunity still remains, Christians today would be wise to consider the experiences of Christians under the Soviets and Chinese Communists. Th...

Christians in America—even fairly young Christians—can look back over their lives and recognize something has changed. They remember former days when the culture regarded Christians in a favorable light. You were in good standing if you were perceived as a Christian. But then there was a period when it wasn’t necessarily good to be a Christian, but it wasn’t a scarlet letter either. But today, Chr...

What is God doing right now in the Philippines? What about Vietnam? What is the state of the local church there? What challenges do they face, and what opportunities are available for churches around the world to engage? Listen to this episode for fresh insights into the state of the Kingdom in Vietnam and the Philippines. Andy dishes up everything from missions, church planting, evangelism and ho...

Across the church, there is a rift between theology and missions. Bad theology produces bad missions, and bad missions fuels bad theology. We wrongly think that we must choose between making a global impact and thinking deeply about the things of God. But the relationship between theology and missions is symbiotic—one cannot exist without the other. They walk hand-in-hand. Alex Kocman and Chad Veg...

Many Christians today recognize that all is not well. There are problems in our communities, our culture and even our churches. But what can biblical Christians do in the face of these challenges? Douglas Wilson - pastor, theologian, author, serial ministry founder and cultural commentator - joins the Christian Emergency Alliance to answer these questions and more. He shares his thoughts on the mo...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn was the “writer who took down an empire” His work, the Gulag Archipelago, detailed the horrors of life in the Soviet Union and made a global mockery of the evil regime. The Gulag Archipelago is a massive tome and can be challenging for many to digest. However, Sean Berube extracted helpful nuggets from the work and explored its themes. Those themes are relevant for Christian...

Faith Cha’s mother and grandmother fled North Korea for their lives. Miraculously, they survived the violence when many around them did not. Not only did they survive, but God crossed their paths with Christians who helped them. These believers—normal people of no renown—played huge roles in the lives of these women by small acts of kindness and grace. These blessings not only helped these women f...

Egyptian authorities do not want Christians around the world to learn about the disturbing case of Abdulbaqi Saeed Abdo. Abdulbaqi is a fellow Christian who is languishing in an Egyptian cell. His crime? Being a Christian who converted from Islam. Abdulbaqi, a Yemeni, fled his home country after facing severe persecution once he converted to Christianity. In Egypt, Abdulbaqi lived out his faith an...

The United Kingdom is in upheaval. Random violence plagues Britain's cities. Mass migration transforms whole communities and erodes vestiges of the country’s Christian roots. Frustration by the people has exploded into protests and riots. An increasingly authoritarian government targets its own citizens, punishes "prayer crime" and applies double standards. What is going on in Britai...

How can you learn to sense God’s leading when pressures abound? How can you take action when you don’t know how things will play out? David Eubank, a former U.S. Special Forces soldier and founder of the Free Burma Rangers, joined the Christian Emergency Podcast in this encore episode to answer these questions and more. In a free ranging discussion, learn how God prepared David and his family to s...

Smuggling bibles into the Communist East Bloc of Europe was a high stakes game back in the 1970s and 1980s. Back then, many Christians in the West had no clue that fellow believers under authoritarian regimes were actively persecuted for their faith. Some Christians did, however. A handful even took it upon themselves to try and help those suffering under Communism, by getting them Bibles and Chri...

In 1979, instability, violence and chaos reigned in the streets of Iran. Revolution followed and swept a new government to power—a government that was no fan of the Christian faith. Things looked bleak for the Iranian Church. Iranian believers found themselves under increasing pressure just as Western missionaries were being kicked out of the country. Many concluded the few Christians left in the...

You probably never heard about Insider Bible translations. Don’t worry. Few Christians, pastors or church mission committees have. But it’s past time we learn about them and the risks they pose. Insider Bible translations remove or change Scriptural terms in an attempt to make them more attractive, or less offensive, to the Lost. These well-intentioned efforts have quietly spread into several miss...

Western China is an exotic land few know about. "Mike," a Christian missionary who served there for years, pulls back the curtain on this unique region. Listen as Mike shares about the Uighur Muslims living in western China, and the hardships they face at the hands of China's communist regime. But God is also on the move in western China. Learn how western missionaries - and even Chi...

If Christians can stand in the Middle East . . . you can stand for Christ anywhere. That is the takeaway from this encore episode. Listen in as Andy Chats with his friend "Mamduah," an Arab believer with decades of experience serving the Lord throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Mamduah shares of the dangers and triumphs experienced by new Christians overseas. But much of what he...

Just as they have throughout the history of the Church, women today are playing important roles in advancing the Gospel around the globe. Women have served in some of the most challenging places to make Christ known in spiritually dark lands. But for women who may be sensing a call to international missions, it can be tough to know what to think or how to prepare. Emily Bennett, who served as a mi...

It’s June. Which means once again Christians – along with people of all stripes – are getting bombarded by anti-biblical LGBTQ+ propaganda. Those pushing the saturation coverage are not interested in tolerance. Nor are they acting out of kindness. Powerful interests - corporations, governments and celebrities – are aggressively foisting this upon you, whether you like it or not. If you’re like man...

Christians in the West see chaos growing: violent protests, unbiblical social movements, political instability and even pressures to shutter churches. So how should Christians respond? The Arab Springs offer a helpful case study of Christians responding in the midst of chaos. During the Arab Spring, protests swept through many Middle Eastern countries and several governments fell. Poverty, extremi...