Andrew Hamilton has an excellent post on the difference between incarnational and attractional ministry. As readers of this blog know, I am increasingly interested in the relationship between the incarnation of Christ and the translation of the Bible. In the incarnation, God took the initiative to reveal himself to humanity; Bible translation is a reflection […]
Month: January 2006
It is often said that the advance of Western culture means that minority languages around the world are being marginalised. I’m sure that this is true in the main, so it is nice to read about a situation where a Western import is having to adapt to the realities of a highly multilingual society. The […]
Roger Welch, of Merland Rise Church (and Wycliffe Bible Translators) has an interesting sermon based on Acts 16 about supporting Bible translation in India. The sermon addresses issues of particular relevance to Merland Rise Church, but also looks at some of the bigger ethical issues mission support both for national missionaries and expats. The sermon […]
Jesus and the DaVinci Code
Focus have just developed a fascinating site looking at the evidence for the DaVinci code. If you’ve read the book you probably know that Dan Brown, the author, says in his introduction: All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents and secret rituals in this novel are accurate. He then goes on to undermine many of the […]
Brian Russel of Real Meal Blog has an extremely important post on using the Bible missiologically. I’d encourage anyone reading this to take the trip over to Brian’s page now. There is a wealth of good stuff there which is worth reading and meditating on. Just to give you an insight, here is the introduction […]
Dog biscuits and life
Most of us have different parts of our life which are lived more in parallel. The people at work don’t know our friends at home and so on and it isn’t always comfortable when two different domains come into contact. I had a small and rather embarssing demonstration of that this morning in the gymn. […]
A Gap in My Knowledge.
A History of Christian Mission by Stephen NeilĀ Much though I hate admitting that I don’t know something, the last few weeks have shown up something that should have been obvious to me: a large slice of church history is a complete blank. I suspect I’m not alone amongst Evangelical Protestants in somehow feeling that […]
Swimming suits in the Bible
There is an interesting and intriguingly title post over at Better Bibles Blog.
Short Term Mission
If you’ve come here looking for the stuff from the Above Bar short term mission seminar, you’ve missed the page. This is what you are looking for! But take a look around the rest of this site before you move on!
Riverbend: Thank You For the Music
Take a look at this post by Riverbend. I’m not trying to make a comment about the wider situation in Iraq here, but we must remember that the faceless ones, the statistics in our newspapers do have faces. They have stories and they have people who love them. I never knew this guy, but I […]