Rather than giving up on the seed that doesn’t bare fruit or trying to cut down the thistles, I wonder if it’s possible to invite people to grow and rise above the thistles, to set their eyes on life eternal, to turn their eyes toward Jesus and find hope there learning as adults to be children of God who takes care of us.
Serbia faced tragic loss this year, with two mass shootings, the first of which was by a 13-year-old boy in his school. People have been genuinely traumatized. The country has not faced anything like this before and it’s been a trigger for the political situation to come to a head. The picture above shows one …
Could Africa become the global Christian centre of gravity for the latter half of this century and the source of Christian leaders, theologians, and missionaries?
The right question is: Are you a witness? The answer is Yes: either a good one: learning to be a fisher of men; or a silent one, who keeps the truth to themselves, and allows people to continue to be harassed by the evil one, or easy prey for false ideas.
t’s not my first community project, and it won’t be my last, but for some reason I’m so excited about this one.
As far as we know, this is the first English translation done by Natives for Natives. Our prayer is that it will open Native hearts to Creator Sets Free (Jesus) and that it will be a gift from our Native people to the dominant culture in the US and to the body of Christ in English-speaking nations worldwide.
And, yes, Westerners are still needed in mission
In my heart, I knew exactly what God was spelling out to me through this situation – It is possible to be told but not hear, to look but not see. So often, I am blind and deaf to what God is doing. Oh God, open our eyes, open our ears.
Everyone would say, I have nothing against the other, I have nothing in my heart against the other brother – but this is actually revealing a lack of love and appreciation for the other. We should have a lot of love and appreciation for the other in our heart.
“We soon realized that Harry was one of the few people we knew who was successfully proclaiming the Gospel message to Muslims.”
We hope that you will be encouraged by this recording of an Experience Life DMM (Disciple Making Movement) coaching session led by Jim Britts. We enjoyed hearing these stories, told by ordinary people who have been quietly and diligently searching for people of peace. You can view other articles in the Experience Life DMM blog …
Chartered accountant Sarah Crowhurst was so moved by the plight of refugees, after witnessing first-hand the desperate situation they faced in Greece, that her family, including two children aged 11 and 13, have moved to Athens to provide permanent support.
The Mission of Jesus: A Journey of Incarceration, Relationships, Inefficiency, Cost, Humility, and Worth
For well over 30 years Nigel was full time administrator to Terry Virgo and the Newfrontiers apostolic team. Read his Autobiography here.
“What are we doing?” I asked myself as I sat in the toilet onboard a British Airways flight to the Middle East with tears rolling down my cheeks. “What on earth are we doing?”
Instead of ‘welcome home’ we prefer ‘welcome back’ because we don’t always know what you mean when you talk about ‘home’ and might not be feeling the relief and comfort that you are expecting us to. Instead of relief we could be missing, friends our routine and time to study.
is the Word of God really without error or fault?
Tips on caring for returners as they come back for visits or long term.
We loved this guest post written by Bradley Bell in 2022. It was first published here on The Upstream Collective blog.We are grateful to be able to reproduce it here with his permission. Being part of The Upstream Collective means learning from sending churches around the world. Honestly, it means I do a lot …
Salima and I have started reading the Bible together. We are currently reading the Creation story and she was incredibly moved by it.
A few weeks ago a Muslim lady came to our church door, she had met Jesus in a dream, been dramatically healed and now wanted to follow Jesus.
I was standing in a courtroom and I was waiting to be judged.
The judge came into the room and He was beautiful. He sat next to me and gave me a piece of paper.
Take heart that our embodied message is powerful and beautiful, even if the verbal translation ends up being jerky sometimes!
