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Praying for Missionaries 4

And forgive us our debts, Or forgive us our sins/trespasses. It may surprise you, but missionaries do sin and do need to seek God’s forgiveness. Although some people put missionaries on a pedestal, they have the same struggles as everyone else. Pride, jealousy, anger, lust; you name it, missionaries are prone to it in the same […]

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Christian Life

Unity in Diversity

What would John have understood from the words ‘as we are one’? What kind of unity was that in the Gospel record so far? The Father and Son share one life (John 5:26, 6:57), and yet they are not identical as Persons. In the same way believers share in the family life of God as […]

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Christian Life

Praying for Missionaries 3

Give us today our daily bread There is one thing that twenty years of leadership in a mission organisation has taught me; we never have enough time, people or money to do what we think we should be doing. Individual missionaries may well have the resources they need for whatever it is they are doing, but across […]

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Christian Life

Praying for Missionaries 2

Your kingdom come, your will be done,  on earth as it is in heaven. Missionaries talk a lot about doing stuff; attending meetings, preaching, travelling and what have you. But, in the final analysis, it isn’t the stuff we do that is important, it is the impact that it has that matters. Ultimately, the work of a […]

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Christian Life

Praying for Missionaries 1

When I first started this blog, it was intended as a way of sharing what we were doing with those who pray for us and who have supported us over the years. Somewhere along the lines, it metamorphosed into something slightly different. However, I thought it might be good to return to my roots and to talk […]

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Bible & Mission Reviews

The Soul Survivor Youth Bible

Hodder and Stoughton have kindly sent me a copy of the NIV Soul Survivor Youth Bible to review. In their blurb, Amazon write: With over 500 extra bits from the team and young people at Soul Survivor and other well-known experts, the NIV Soul Survivor Youth Bible digs deep into the Bible – its key themes, […]

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The Word in West Africa

Sue has just completed her MA in aspects of Biblical Interpretation. Her dissertation was on the role of translated Scriptures in the contextualisation of the gospel in West Africa, or how having the Bible in African languages has helped the development of authentic Africa Christianity, if you prefer. You can download it as a pdf […]

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Church: World

The Church in the North and West

This week, I’ve been reading Global Mission: Reflections and Case Studies in Contextualization for the Whole Church, edited by Rose Dowsett. It’s an excellent book which should probably be included as a basic text in any undergraduate mission training course. Over the next day or two, I will be posting a few quotes that I […]

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Bible and Mission Links 21

It’s been a while since my last update of all things Bible and mission floating around the internet, so there is a fair bit to mention this time round. Bible Translation Coming from a secularised western society, I find it difficult to get my mind around concepts such as witchcraft and sorcery. However, this is […]