Pioneer missionary returns to the Sawi people of West Papua 50 years after his ground-breaking time with them.
Faith. Rebuilt
December 7th, 2012
I started this blog about 18 months ago, using a colourful theme designed by Nick La (above). But I think it is time for a change.
December 5th, 2012
Jesus told a very striking story. You probably know it. A man owed a large amount of money but couldn’t pay, so he asked his banker for extra time to make the repayment. And he was given time. But then he called in a small debt he was owed, and refused the poor man’s entreaties […]
December 1st, 2012
Pioneer missionary returns to the Sawi people of West Papua 50 years after his ground-breaking time with them.
November 29th, 2012
Or, to be more accurate, I soon will be. It is a phenomenon reported by pollster George Barna, observed by many of us and experienced by some – feeling dissatisfied with church. Not just complaining that something isn’t perfectly the way we like it, or disliking the people, but feeling deeply alienated from the church […]
November 23rd, 2012
Many people read this post and then misquote it. They actually ignore the data. Many people quote the statistic that there are more than 30,000 christian denominations. It turns out this is mistaken. There are about 40,000 christian church organisations, three quarters of them independent churches, not denominations, in Africa. The number of denominations is […]
November 20th, 2012
We are all familiar with several contemporary meanings of the word “church” – a building, a Sunday event, a group of people or a denomination. But what did it mean in the New Testament? The Greek word “ekklesia” is often translated “church”, but what did it mean?
November 17th, 2012
. I liked this NT Wright quote, posted on the Enough Light blog.
November 15th, 2012
None of the four gospels explicitly states who the author(s) is/are, and the names given to them reflect the understanding of the early christians. So scholars are left to determine as best they can whether the names we have were indeed the authors. Knowing the author probably doesn’t change all that much, but I have […]
November 7th, 2012
So Obama has won, more convincingly than many expected. Many christians will be worried by this, yet there seems to be a number of christians taking a different line.
November 2nd, 2012
One Laptop Per Child is a US-based charity which is seeking to create affordable educational devices for use in the developing world. Due to the difficulty in providing and funding teachers in some locations, it has tried the innovative, perhaps crazy, idea of leaving laptop or tablet computers with kids without any instructions. Outcomes have […]
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