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God’s World Wide Movement: Strategy Development

Four steps that a church needs to follow when getting involved in what God is doing worldwide. Some of the suggestions might surprise you.

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Throwback: Praying for Missionaries

The centre of mission work is the God whom the missionaries serve, not the missionaries themselves.

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Throwback: Receiving Prayer

Prayer is important and it’s probably worth avoiding sloppy language that expresses things that really aren’t true.

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Observations

How To Identify a “Good” Mission Agency

If we were serious about the idea that mission is God’s activity and not ours, we would be much less precious about organisational boundaries.

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Kouyanet Resources

In 14 years of blogging, I’ve produced the odd resource that is of lasting value. This post highlights some of them.

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Observations

Pray for Boris?

In a democratic society such as ours, we have a responsibility to make our voice heard and to vote according to our consciences. Those with strong party-affiliations should campaign and do their best to ensure that someone else forms the next government – but they still have to pray for this one. 

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John Risbridger on Bible Translation

http://wycliffe.org.uk/downloads/fp2013-johnrisbridger-lr.mp4 John Risbridger is one of the ministers at Above Bar Church, which has supported Sue and I since we first joined Wycliffe in 1985. This video was prepared as one of the resources for Frontline Prayer Live; an opportunity to pray for the work of Bible translation across the world. Why not take a […]

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Christian Life Observations

Mission Starts With God

This video was shot for the Wycliffe Pray 10/11/12 meetings which were held in various settings today. http://www.wycliffe.org.uk/docs/pray101112-eddie.mp4Podcast: Play in new window | Download (46.8MB) | Embed

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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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Christian Life

Praying for Missionaries 6

deliver us from the evil one In my experience, Christians tend to divide into two broad camps. There are some who see demons lurking behind every bush and who attribute anything even vaguely unpleasant to their activity and there are those who while acknowledging that Satan and demons exist, are unwilling to admit that they […]