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Bible & Mission

Our Mission is Found in God’s Mission. So What?

The Triune God is the instigator of mission and, through the sacrifice of the Son and the empowering presence of the Spirit, he is also the one who guarantees the success of mission. However, true to his relational nature the Triune God invites us to participate in mission with him. Our participation in God’s work […]

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Mission Reviews

The Heart of Christianity

Not everyone likes reading from a computer screen. It isn’t always easy on the eyes, and, let’s face it, it can be fairly inconvenient setting up your desktop computer to read from a pdf on the train. But, there are lots and lots of really good books available in electronic format these days (some of […]

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Christian Life Mission

Praying for Missionaries

My blog series on praying for for missionaries has been edited (thanks Hannah) and reformatted (thanks Ruth) and is now available for download as an A5 booklet here. If you have a Kindle and would like to carry the booklet around with you, you can get a copy from Amazon for a minimal fee. A […]

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Observations

Jesus’ Wife

A few days ago, a Harvard Professor announced that he had found a papyrus which indicated that some early Christians believed that Jesus was married. Now, I’m not expert enough in the field to make any serious comment on the validity or otherwise of these claims, but this episode illustrates a few important truths from […]

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Bible & Mission

Mission and the Bible

People are forever making claims about doing mission in a biblical way. The problem is that the Bible offers us lots of different examples of how to do mission and some of them are not altogether positive. There is a case to be made that says that Jonah is the first cross-cultural missionary in the […]

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Do Not Use

Bible and Mission Links 22

Bible Translation Philip Hewer has a rather nice blog post exploring the disappearing vocative ‘o’, while Pastors.com pays homage to ‘Good News for Modern Man‘. Those with a historical interest can read about Baptists and the Bible and there are more materials about the Bible than most of us will ever read available from John Frame […]

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Christian Life

Running the Race of Faith

Here is my sermon from this morning’s service at Christ Church Flackwell Heath http://docs-eu.livesiteadmin.com/bb27e7ce-476d-483c-9e11-8d54267c87ad/20120909.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 0:30 — 3.0MB) | Embed

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African Writing Systems

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Computing/Internet

Testing Testing…

I have just changed the way that email announcements of blog posts are sent out. This is purely to test that the new system is working as it should. If you normally receive an email about posts to Kouya.net and don’t get this one, please let me know. 🙂 Normal service will be resumed…

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Bible & Mission

Progress?

… as a community of expectation, the church must resist the temptation to view itself and its work as part of a progression, or process, rather than in terms of partial fulfilment and anticipation. In late modernity, this is more of a risk than ever, particularly as we grow further removed from the devastation of […]