Dear Friends, For the last few years, I’ve spent most of January in Central Africa but this year I was at home for the whole month. It probably won’t surprise anyone to learn that in January, England is much colder than Cameroon. Still, I shouldn’t complain as this time tomorrow I’ll be in Addis Abeba, […]
Month: February 2006
The Church After Christendom
I’ve just finished reading Stuart Murray’s ‘Church After Christendom’. If you are interested in thinking through what the Church should look like in our current culture, it is a very good read.
Last week Tom Wright gave an excellent speech in the House of Lords which did not seem to receive any publicity at the time. I have to admit that the speech is rather dense (I had to read it twice) but it is a good example of a Christian engaging with pressing social issues. The […]
The Heart of Mission?
I’ve just done a short exercise for my MTh course. Following on from some reading; the workbook asked, ‘which Biblical passages lead you to the heart of mission?’ I raised this question myself in a post a few months back, but my answer to the exercise today is different to the one I gave earlier. […]
Two Quotations
I enjoyed these two quotes I heard this week – one serious, one not quite so… This world may indeed be “enemy occupied territory,” but the Enemy has got no property rights in it. He is a thief and a liar. Our responsibility as Christians is to be good stewards of the King’s property. (Max […]
New Bible Translations
Let’s face it, Bible translation tends not to be a very funny subject – not a lot of laughs to be had. So, take a look at this blog posting which I think is hilarious.
Erasmus and Bible Translation
I’m grateful to my colleague Alan Gibson for the following about Erasmus: [In the Preface to his 1516 NT] Erasmus argued that Christian truth was not so complicated that it had to be hidden among a handful of men. Unlike other philosophies, Christianity suited itself to every need and person and was ‘within the reach […]
Mission and Worship
This blog contains a number of links to the notes for sermons I’ve preached. By way of a change, here is an MP3 file of a sermon on Matthew 28:16,17 which I preached a couple of weeks ago at Merland Rise Church. The subject is mission and worship – I hope it proves helpful to […]