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Bible Translation Christian Life

Which Bible should I use?

I gave a talk on which English Bible translation is the best one to use at Learning to Serve yesterday. If you are interested, my PowerPoint presentation (complete with typos) is available here. However, even if you don’t want to download the full presentation (and I wouldn’t blame you) I would like to give you […]

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Church: UK

Where to look for information on the church in the UK

I was recently asked by a British colleague who works in Africa which websites he should look at for information about Church trends in the UK. For what it’s worth, here are my thoughts on the subject. Church Websites: The truth is that Church websites generally don’t give much information on anything other than the […]

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Musings on World Christianity

Something worth dying for.

My latest sermon at Above Bar Church on Acts 6:8-7:60 is available for download here. It’s a 5Mb MP3 file, so you probably don’t want to listen to it on a dial up connection.

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Bible Translation

Who do we translate the Bible for?

Last week at the Bible translation leaders’ conference a fascinating question was asked from the front. “Who provides our motivation for Bible translation, the worldwide church or unreached people groups?”. (I may have got the wording slightly wrong – I wasn’t taking notes at that point). This is a fascinating question which to some extent […]

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Africa Bible Translation

Translation Leaders’ Conference

My ten days in Thailand at a Bible Translation Leaders’ conference were very interesting. Part of my job was to lead a table discussion group in French, mainly for participants from Francophone Africa. These guys grew up speaking a local language (or three) were educated in French and then picked up English somewhere on the […]

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Do Not Use

The Illustrated Bible

While looking for illustrations to use in my PowerPoint presentation for Sunday morning’s sermon, I came across this site. It has an excellent selection of illustrations of biblical themes. These include paintings by old masters (and people you’ve never heard of) manuscript illuminations and stained glass windows. The illustrations are listed by theme and Bible […]

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Observations

What we did on our day off

Well, I’m back home after a long eight days of meetings. I can’t complain, however, as we did get one day off in the middle of the conference and a few of us used it really well with a white water rafting trip. I’ve not had such an adrenalin rush in a long, long time! […]

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Africa

You thought life where you live is tough

 Paul Merril has an interesting blog post today about a subject dear to most missionaries’ hearts – toilet paper. I think that this is the first time I’ve seen a Christian post about loo roll. It tells you important stuff, such as: To put things into perspective, the largest country in Africa, Congo, does not […]

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Observations

It’s a Small World

I’m sitting in the Air France lounge in Bangkok on my way home. I’ll post some reflections, pictures and even a video about my trip when I get back. In the meantime, I just picked up a copy of Time magazine and was pleased to see that Loc8tor is listed as one of their products […]

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Church: UK Politics

Cranmer: Christian Union students ‘persecuted for righteousness’ sake’

I’m not at home at the moment and opportunities for blogging and keeping up with the news are limited. However, one of the blogs that I read regularly pointed me to this link about the persecution of Christian Unions on British University Campuses. It’s worth a read. Cranmer: Christian Union students ‘persecuted for righteousness’ sake’