Mathematics and Spirituality

In the holy city of Gangapur, two preachers were most renowned:  Gyananand enthralled his audience by explaining that the European numerals (I, II, III, IV, V, etc) could not have produced Western science, technology, banking, or economic development. They were inherently incapable of calculating mathematical units such as percentages or economic units such as compound interest. [...]

Strategic Leadership

Leaders at any level, in any field or endeavour, universally recognise the importance of vision. In fact, so much is said and written about vision today that it is in danger of becoming nothing more than a buzz-word. In some quarters, vision has become an industry in its own right; entire bookstores tell us how [...]

Is cultural engagement biblical?

We’ve all seen the misguided claims of some nationalist groups that one particular nation or other in the world today is “God’s country,” or the dubious claim that one specific political system such as democracy, or a specific economic system such as socialism or capitalism, is God’s universal pattern for humankind. Throughout history, and the [...]

One tract, one verse and village transformed

Thirty years ago, Yong Am was one of South Korea’s poorest villages. It offered no school for the children and no jobs for the adults. Today, a typical small farmer earns over $60,000 per year and the Christian impact that brought such change has spread to India. Photo by Arvind Balaraman at freedigitalphotos.net The transformation [...]

Why I preach the Kingdom

By “kingdom” I mean the rule of God over all creation. This includes understanding that the church is not the entire kingdom, but is only in the kingdom as its primary agent of proclamation and application. My eyes were opened in 1995 when I went from a dispensational belief system to the kingdom message. As [...]

What does God require of us

We are involved in a ministry within Fiji called Homes of Hope which is a refuge for female victims of Sexual Exploitation & Sex Trafficking. Our target group are teenage or young adult girls who have become single mothers as a result of rape, incest or enforced prostitution. Most of our residents are victims of [...]

Pastors visit your people at work

During my past 4 years as a pastor in the Bay Area I quickly discovered that one of the most important things for me to do was to hang out with men in my church at their workplace. This helped the men. It showed them that I care about their callings, how they spend 50+ [...]

Contrasting a Kingdom mindset with a church mindset

Jesus, John the Baptist, and the apostles went about proclaiming the kingdom–not the church (read Matthew 3:2, 4:17, 10:7; Acts 28:30-31). Although the church is in the kingdom, it is not the entire kingdom. “Kingdom” denotes the rule of God over the whole cosmos, not just a single entity on the earth, like the church. [...]

Community Domains

“There is not a square inch in the whole domain of human existence over which Christ, who is sovereign over all, does not cry: ‘Mine!’” – Abraham Kuyper God is the creator and sovereign Lord over all. His redemptive agenda encompasses all of creation. And by His grace, God has uniquely gifted each Christ-follower to [...]

“Doesn’t Wholism Just Send Well-fed, Clothed People to Hell?”

That assertion is sometimes made of a comprehensive approach to Christian ministry such as taught by the DNA. At one level, this is a straw-man argument, an attack of a caricature of wholism. The DNA is not among those who promote feeding the hungry while ignoring their spiritual dimension. But there’s another level to this [...]

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