Mouse was kind enough to include Kouya Chronicle in his list of blogs to watch. This inspired me to draw up my list of the twenty recommended blogs. This doesn’t mean that these are the best blogs out there, but they are the ones that I follow the most closely. For obvious reasons, Bible translation […]
Thanks to Banksy Boy for posting this provocative and thoughtful video. I’ve always liked Jackson Browne
I’m not a great fan of mega churches, but even I can’t help but be excited by this amazing article from David Platt, senior Pastor of a 4,000 people congregation in Alabama. We American Christians have a way of taking the Jesus of the Bible and twisting him into a version of Jesus that we […]
Are Christians scared of Christmas? I don’t mean scared of Christmas in the sense of worrying about how much it will all cost, or recovering from the annual fight to get round the supermarkets as people lay in enough food to survive the siege of Leningrad despite the fact that the shops will only be […]
Global Voices is one of my favourite websites for news about the majority world. If you have an interest in what is going on outside of Europe and North America, you really should sign up to some of their news feeds. Today, in a somewhat of a break from their normal output, Global Voices has […]
I’ve recently put together a series of five studies which give an overview of the Biblical narrative and which are now available for download (pdf) on the Wyliffe Bible Translators website. The official blurb reads: Wycliffe Bible Translators have prepared the Bible study resource “The Whole Story in Five Acts” for use by church small […]
Mouse has provided a link to a YouGov survey on Britains favourite Christmas carol. Not surprisingly, Silent Night tops the list. I’m not sure which carol I’d call my favourite; though Hark the Herald does take some beating. However, I do know which is my favourite carol tune and it is one of the (many) […]
Over the years, I’ve spent a lot of my life sitting in aeroplanes. I’ve done so much travelling, that once or twice I’ve been upgraded to business class, but the vast majority of my flying hours have been spent in the cramped seats at the back of the plane. For me, the height of luxury […]
I’ve read some excellent books this year and made notes about quite a few of them on this blog. Just for reference, here are some of the best (listed chronologically, by the date on which I reviewed them): Salvation to the Ends of the Earth Beyond Empire Joining in with the Spirit Did the First […]
Today, I was struck (again) by the way in which the opening verses of John’s Gospel reflect the start of Genesis. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (Genesis 1:1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in […]