Christian Life —
Recently I read through Miller and Yamamori’s book “Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement”. It was very encouraging on several levels. Miller is a sociologist interested in religion and has been studying Pentecostalism. Together with Yamamori (of Food for the Hungry) they decided to investigate the churches in the world that are […]
Recently I have been reading a couple of pieces by N.T. Wright and have found him to be wonderfully thought provoking in many directions. His work on Jesus and Paul has given a more panoramic view of the kinds of themes and issues that were part of their first century world and that shaped their […]
Not long ago I finished working through Lesslie Newbiggin’s The Gospel in a Pluralist Society. He had a sentence that jumped off the page in one of his chapters dealing with the logic of mission.
He begins by noting that there has been a long tradition of seeing the mission of the Church as primarily obedience […]
The last few years I have been working with urban poor. Spending lots of time with people on the bottom end of society has been an eye opening and rewarding experience. It has also made me think a great deal about what it means to “hear” the Gospel.
In the early years of my walk with […]
We were given a book at the World Missions Summit last year and my wife is reading it right now. She was reading me some great quotes out of it so I asked her to write them down so I could share them here.
The book is by Claude Hickman, titled livelifeonpurpose God’s Purpose. Your […]