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Christian Life Theology

The Purpose of the Bible: Part Three

We’ve looked at how the Bible is the story of God’s conversation with his creation down through the centuries and taken a quick glance at the major themes in that story, now I’d like to sum up my thoughts on this subject. What is the purpose of the Bible? Simple, the purpose of the Bible […]

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Do Not Use

Jesus: What’s Really Important

There is an MP3 download of my latest sermon at Above Bar Church available. The passage is Mark 14:1-26 and the sermon has a somewhat original start. If you listen to it, let me know what you think. http://www.abovebarchurch.org.uk/files/Sermon%2006-10-29%20PM.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (6.2MB) | Embed

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Bible Translation

Bob Creson » Bible Translation and Explosive Faith Movements

My friend Bob Creson, president of Wycliffe US,  has just made an excellent post about the impact of Bible translation on communities around the world. The Bible has a lot to say about God’s special love for the poor, the downtrodden, and the oppressed. I believe that he is pleased when these marginalized people are offered […]

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Computing/Internet Reviews

Money Makes the Web Go Round

As you can see by the visitor map, we have been getting an increasing number of visitors to the Kouya Chronicle. Not only that, but quite a few people are downloading (and using?) some of the presentations and articles. However, this increase in traffic means that we are now regularly using more than our monthly […]

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Church: UK Mission Theology

What is the Emerging Church

A while ago, I reviewed D.A. Carson’s book Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church. At the time, I was not particularly impressed with what Carson had to say (and I’m still not). There is a much better analysis of the Emerging Church, written by an insider, available here. (Thanks to Mark at Foolish Sage for […]

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Language and Society

Language and Politics

The BBC has an interesting article on the way that language is influencing the way that people vote in the Democratic Republic of Zaire. It is hard for people who live in broadly monolingual situations to understand the way in which language diversity can impact every aspect of life in countries like the DRC.

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Africa

Air Travel in Africa

The Daily Telegraph has an article on air travel in Africa that might explain why Sue and I are always amused when people complain about how bad Heathrow is. It will no doubt raise a few wry smiles from people who have used African airports. With the possible exceptions of South African Airways and Kenya […]

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Christian Life Mission

What is the purpose of Bible Teaching?

Hamo at Backyard Missionary has written an excellent short post on the reason for Bible teaching. You can find it here. Here is a brief taster of what he has to say, I find it compelling stuff. ‘In my experience and observation simply offering better Bible teaching has not produced better disciples.’ …I hear many […]

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Christian Life Theology

The Purpose of the Bible: Part Two

In the first post in this series, I suggested that the purpose of the Bible is to tell us the story of God’s dealings with his creation. In this post, I would like to describe, in broad terms, the nature of that story. Of course, with something as complex as God’s relationship with humanity, there […]

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Christian Life Theology

The Purpose of the Bible: Part One

This is the first in a series (probably two) articles I’d like to write on the purpose of the Bible. Ifirst started reflecting on this when preparing a session for the Learning to Serve discipleship training course in Southampton.  Articles by Lingamish and N.T. Wright are the main inspirations for the actual content of what […]