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Mission

Backyard Missionary: Incarnational V Attractional Ministry

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 […]

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Computing/Internet

Minority languages and pop culture

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 […]

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Bible Translation Mission

Roger Welch: Sermon on Supporting Bible Translation

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 […]

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Reviews

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 […]

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Mission Reviews

Implementing a Missiological Reading in the Church

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 […]

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Humour

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. […]

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Reviews

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 […]

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Bible Translation

Swimming suits in the Bible

There is an interesting and intriguingly title post over at Better Bibles Blog.

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Mission

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!

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Observations

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 […]