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Tom Holland on Paul

A brilliant one minute video on Jesus and Paul

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Engaging With Science

I’m a big fan of science: but the world needs Jesus!

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Throwback: A New Society

The church’s new society doesn’t come about by people trying to be nice to each other (though that’s not a bad idea) but by people admitting their need of Jesus and by people from different backgrounds seeing their primary allegiance as being to him.

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Are Mission Agencies Biblical?

Try as I might, I can’t discern any pattern to the missionary structures in Acts, nor to the way in which they relate to churches (beyond the fact that planting churches seems to have been the goal of apostolic missionary activity).

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A Different Take On Barnabas

Archaeology gives a whole new set of insights into the Paul and Barnabas/John-Mark kerfuffle.

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Throwback: Paul Versus Apollos – the Publicity Battle

With Luke writing positive stories about Paul’s work, Apollos decided that he needed to engage a publicity firm to get his message across (no he didn’t).

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How Should We Support Mission?

This podcast episode looks at the way that Paul and the Philippian church supported and encouraged one another with a view to understanding how churches can support mission today. You can subscribe to the Kouyanet podcast using the links in the footer. If you would prefer to actually see me (hard to imagine), you can […]

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How Mission Happens

If a church is going to support world-mission, they need to start off by understanding what it looks like.

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Churches and Agencies in Acts

Any attempt to find a hard and fast model for how mission agencies should function and how they should relate to churches in the book of Acts will be disappointed. Luke just does not provide us with this information.

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Why Listening Is Key

This short video gives some reasons why mission agencies need to listen to the voices of Christians in the countries where they work when they are planning their strategies.