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More on Sermons and the Word of God

Bruce Alderman has picked up on an earlier post of mine and written a thoughtful post on how the Word of God and preaching interact. You can find it here.

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Mission

Mike Frost Promotional Video

I’ve already mentioned that Mike Frost will be coming to the UK in October for a speaking tour. If you want to know more, this video gives you and idea of what it’s all about. More details from Facing the Challenge.

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Stories about Us

Preaching…. Sort of!

I gave a sermon to a large, multicultural audience composed of Bible translation leaders from all over the world. And though I say it myself, it was a great sermon, but I can’t take any credit for it as I was the interpreter not the preacher. Daniel Bourdanne from IFES was our guest speaker and […]

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Reviews

Two Missiology Books

While on holiday I read The Changing Face of Christianity: Africa, the West, and the World by Sanneh and Carpenter and Asian Church and World Mission by Ma and Ma. Both of these books are compiled of papers given at conferences and suffer from a lack of coherence as a result. Of the two, the […]

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Language and Society

Language Diversity

I believe deeply that a multiplicity of languages is one of God’s great gifts to the human race. You can hear me waxing lyrical on this subject on MP3 here (about thirty mins). However, even I think that you can have too much of a good thing and I feel very sorry for the teachers […]

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Observations

Not What Was Planned

As I mentioned a few days ago I fell off a motor scooter during our holiday in South Thailand. Well, half way through the first morning of the Bible translation conference I found that one of my bruises had become very sore and rather red and inflamed. Thinking that it might be an infection I […]

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Observations

The Traveller’s Favourite Sight

Is there a more welcome sight than your baggage arriving on the carousel? I know that purple is not a cool colour for suitcases, but at least they are easily recognised!

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Church: World Mission

The Gospel and Culture: Different People See Different Things

This is my fourth post in a series expanding the ideas originally contained in a short blog post on the way in which the Gospel interacts with different cultures. So far, I’ve set out that the Christian message does not belong to any one cultural setting, but can in fact make itself at home in […]

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What We Did On Our Holidays

There are some distinct similarities between this year’s holiday on a Thai island, and last year’s break in the north of England – mainly to do with heavy rain! On our way to a Bible translation conference in Northern Thailand we’ve stopped off for a week on the island of Koh Samui. which is a […]

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Observations

Not the Plane We Flew On…

It’s midnight in England and seven am in Kuala Lumpur airport where we have a long layover before flying on to Bangkok. The flight was fine, though the choice of movies was awful. As we were waiting to board in Heathrow we got a good view of the Singapore Airlines Airbus 380. It looks rather […]