Why do you think sectarianism/racism, with its fear and superiority, is so appealing to people?
Have you experienced people viewing you in a stereotypical way? How do you feel about this?
Singles have lots to teach the wider church about resilience, faithfulness and obedience. Take time to listen to them, be interested in their experiences and learn from them.
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.
And, yes, Westerners are still needed in mission
On the coast of North Africa, lies an area of occupied territory about the size of the UK, distinct and proud in its dress, language and traditions. Rarely reaching the news, this conservative, Sunni Islamic land sits at the edge of the Sahara; a sprinkling of towns and villages dotting across open miles of rock and sand.
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.
If I’m honest, this UN23 Conference on the theme of ‘The Peace-building Imperative’ totally undid me. By the end of it I felt not only deeply inspired and challenged, but also unravelled! Others who attended the conference have written to say the same kind of thing. The recurring theme throughout the conference was that in …
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.”
The focus on peacebuilding/reconciliation is super important. Part of our mandate is to bring aspects of the wider missions conversation into the Newfrontiers family, and this is a key area of conversation at the moment. The speakers at the conference are literally world-class. As well as our keynote speakers Owen Hylton (UK) and Michael Feulner …
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This is the latest blog in the Called?! series. For previous posts see Persuaded, Sent, Prepared, Teamed, Sown But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry… And the LORD said, “Do you do well to be angry?” (Jonah 4:1, 4) When we enter a new culture, we expect to be changed. For the better. The little book of Jonah …
You are being buried, my friend. It’s a baptism. It’s cruciform. It’s heroic. It’s apostolic. It’s sacrificial. It hurts.
“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.
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 …
This is Number 4 in the Called?! series of posts. Persuaded Sent Prepared Ecc 4:9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. Ecc 4:10 For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another …
Salima and I have started reading the Bible together. We are currently reading the Creation story and she was incredibly moved by it.
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!