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Reviews

Blue Like Younger Evangelicals

Some years ago I was on a train in Switzerland, reading a book. I like reading books. The book was by a guy and it was called Leadership Jazz. It was a good book, but I don’t remember what it said anymore. A few months ago, I was looking at the Amazon website – I […]

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Observations

-Bι ka -gwlε

Sorry about the strange title for this post, but I don’t know how to get Kouya characters to appear in WordPress, so you have to put up with capital letters. -Bι ka -gwlε could be translated as “it’s been a long time” or perhaps “auld lang syne”. We are still living at the Wycliffe centre, […]

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Christian Life Computing/Internet

Relational Depth and Breadth

Sorry that I haven’t posted much in the last few days, moving house has taken a good deal out of both Sue and I. Anyway, in the absence of any sensible thought from me; I can refer you to this excellent post from Mark Sayers. However today with our tremendous relational breadth, we have little […]

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Christian Life

OCMS

I spoke at the Wednesday morning chapel at OCMS in Oxford yesterday. OCMS is an amazing international community of mission scholars. They are based in an old church building on the Woodstock Road, with the library and study areas being in the nave of the church. It’s all very cramped, but the atmosphere is great. […]

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Theology

I think this is beautiful

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Christian Life

Doves or Snakes

This morning the three of us who are conducting a review of some Bible translation work in Togo meditated on one verse of Scripture together: Matthew 10:16. Look, I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. So be as shrewd as snakes and harmless as doves. At the start of a week where we […]

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Mission

Missional Reading of Scripture

Brian has some wonderful random thoughts on the missional reading of Scripture including this brilliant snippet. It is vital to learn to think “Christianly” But in today’s climate where the very claims of Christianity are not widely accepted or even understood, any approach to Scripture that merely increases the knowledge of “insiders” is in danger […]

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Mission

Soundbite

I just picked up a text message commenting on my last sermon. The text had a great soundbite, which I don’t recall ever having heard before (please don’t tell me that you heard this at your mother’s knee). Being a missionary is not about crossing the sea; it’s about seeing the cross!

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Mission Observations

A Sense of Reality

Milton Stanley breaths a sense of reality into the nature of Christian discipleship in his latest post: Why does some evangelism insist on presenting Christian discipleship as something that will make our lives run smoothly? As Jesus and the apostles told us, the ruling powers of the world are at war with the church, and […]

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Mission Observations Politics

Should Christians Obey the Law?

There is a furore in the UK at the moment over the issue of discrimination against homosexuals. Basically, the government has passed a law saying that anyone who provides a service cannot discriminate against other people on the grounds of sexuality. The Catholic church has said, that if this is the case they will need […]