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.
The Mission of Jesus: A Journey of Incarceration, Relationships, Inefficiency, Cost, Humility, and Worth
is the Word of God really without error or fault?
Some reflections this Easter on these verses from the crucifixion story. Mattthew 27:6-7 But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “it is not lawful to put them
This is part three in my Called?! series of blog posts. Click for parts one and two. Listen to me, you islands; hear this, you distant nations: Before I was
So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them, “It is not for you to
The following is an extract from my book The Bethlehem Story: Mission and Justice in the Margins of the World There is another ancient oracle that seems to have been in
Some thoughts on patronage, missiology and the East Mediterranean today
Part of Jeremiah’s calling was to reach out to those living in the province of Ephraim, north of the dividing line between the southern kingdom of Judah (with its capital
Sitting in Athens thinking about history. Anthony Sattin’s book Nomads: The Wanderers who Shaped our World is therapeutic and persuasive in its argument that the modernist telling of history represents
We’ve just spent a week in a Central Asian city famously known as “the windy city” (let the reader understand!) – and it really has been very blustery. Shutter-bangingly, tree-bendingly,
Regularly engaging with the Bible helps people to come to faith and to grow in maturity as believers. Reading the Bible individually is just one way…
Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey, not a horse. The Cyprus donkey is a well-loved symbol of the island. What kind of king do Cypriots really need to meet?
The resurrection appearances in John’s brilliantly crafted narrative bring to poetic conclusion so many themes. There are multiple reiterated ideas from John’s gospel itself which find their climax in Chapter
Now, lets go forwards in time to Jesus. Jesus went to live in the region of Galilee. Matthew tells us that this was, “to fulfill what was said
People of the Middle East love word plays. We use rhyming phrases all the time, for example: Kul Franji Branji = which means “Everyone foreign is exciting.” Late night conversations
I know that people are always looking for resources to help them think about issues like race, diversity and justice from a Biblical perspective. The church where I serve as
One of our friends in the Middle East was in the mountains last week and bumped into a shepherd. They had a chat about the Parable of the Good Shepherd
This is part four of a series of blog posts on Moses. “And I will give this people favour in the eye of the Egyptians; and when you go, you
This is part 3 in a series of posts on Moses. The LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.” Exodus 4:2 The shepherd’s
“And he called his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.” Exodus 2:22 Gershom’s name comes from the 3-letter verbal root in Hebrew
Having fled Egypt and stumbled into a new life in Midian, Moses enters what Rabbi Jonathan Sacks calls “the slow movement of the symphony of his life,” as a wilderness