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February 2018 Reading

Two good church history books, some indifferent missiology, some awful science fiction and a book about vets in North Yorkshire; February’s reading.

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A Future Billy Graham?

In a diverse, multilingual, multi-media world, the need is not for one towering figure like Billy Graham, but for a myriad of people, fired up by his passion and his convictions about the Scriptures.

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Never Break the Chain

Paul says to Timothy, teach others the same things that I’ve taught you, so that they can teach others and those others can teach others, and they can….

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Being Pragmatic Doesn’t Always Work

This divorce of our field-based methods from healthy missiology rooted deeply in a biblical and theological foundation resulted in numerous problems in the kingdom

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When Lord Doesn’t Mean Lord

Bible translation can be quite complicated, you know!

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The Olympic Lie Revisited

I love watching the Olympics. I am in awe of the athletes and I’m staggered at the hard work that they put in. But there is more to life than that.

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Oxfam, Agencies and Exploitation

Just imagine how a local builder feels, when a bunch of teenagers from the UK or the US rock up to his town to build a church without any knowledge or experience of local building techniques.

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Evolutionary Advantage

The absence of the things that Down’s confers on a society means that we are incapable of seeing their value.

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Not New Enough

The most effective instrument in the spread of the gospel “would not be western mission agencies or institutions of any kind,

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Books I Have Read: Theologies of Mission

This is probably one of the specialists (and those writing essays), but it’s a very good book.