What I do know, is that from the Eastern Mediterranean, to the North of England, the message was passed from person to person until it reached me.
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We Must Never Break the Chain
Category: Observations
Thoughts and ideas that you might find interesting or stimulating.
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Who Is Important?
We weep more for those who are close to us. Many people in the UK have visited Paris and know people who live there. An attack on the French city touches us more than one in a place we have never visited.
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Aaaaaargh!
In which I get irritated about some poor ecclesiology
Two books with some strong points, but some serious weaknesses.
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Partners In World Mission
Some thoughts from a Church of England mission conference.
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Trustees
In fact, most agency leaders that I talk to are so busy trying to keep the show on the road, that they don’t have the luxury to think through some of the big changes that may need to be made in the short-medium future.
Many mission agencies have very little by way of central funds or source of direct income and they are not in a position to pay salaries for their staff. Effectively, the missionary pays the agency, rather than the other way round.
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Books I Have Read: Mind The Gap
I enjoyed reading this book, but I have to admit that I find it rather difficult to describe it. It isn’t an exposition of Luke’s Gospel, it isn’t a set of stories about life in ‘informal settlements’ in Africa and it isn’t a theology of the city. Except that it is all three of these…
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I Agree With You, Or Maybe Not
In which I suggest that it might be a good idea to read some “unsound” books from time to time.
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Donors Living By Faith
None of us can know or predict how God will use our time our energy or our finances; sometimes he brings amazing success and other times he stretches our faith by long periods of apparent failure.