There’s got to be more

Recently I presented a seminar called “Rediscovering the Kingdom of God’ to a group from my local church. After listening to my presentation a guy called Matt approached me, thanked me for my teaching and then made a comment that’s stuck with me ever since. He said, “I go to church every Sunday, I watch [...]

The Atheists who honored the Bible

I recently witnessed an unlikely scene: the Bible exalted by an atheist government! While driving down Nyezalyezhnastsi Boulevard to the international airport in Minsk, Belarus, we encountered a feast for the eyes, the just-completed National Library of Belarus. An intriguing statue stood near the front of the beautiful building. A larger-than-life man from another era held a book high [...]

Am I not my brother’s keeper

I recently spoke to an actor who, in a moment of candid honesty, admitted ‘I have never felt at home in a church before, because people have never understood my job.’ How many of us feel our careers are devalued or misunderstood? How many see our jobs as secondary to mission and struggle to have [...]

Are Christians too sheltered?

Gabe Lyons: I’m here with Margaret Feinberg out of Denver, Colorado. She is the author of “The Organic God,” and is just an incredible speaker and thinker. She really does so much to educate all of us about the next generation. And I know that for you, Margaret, participating in this project was about really [...]

Cultural Commission

As many readers will be aware Charles Colson has recently died. Colson had a profound impact on evangelicals around the world particularly in terms of understanding the Cultural Commission and in taking up the challenge to apply this understanding in the real world. Here is one of his last presentations on this theme given at [...]

Vision for our cities

In Jeremiah 29, God told the Israelites who had been taken into Babylonian captivity, “Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number [...]

Why humility for a leader is not always enough

The chances are many leaders would be divided on the significance of that statement alone. Some equate humility with weakness, whereas others argue that when it is absent, leaders lose the ability to listen – to their peers, staff, customers, constituents, congregations, friends, their closest advisors, including their own families. Inevitably what happens is every [...]

From church planting success to genocide

In just 100 years, this country went from ‘unreached’ to ‘churched’, with approximately 90 percent of the population attending church as members.  It is the ultimate success story in the history of Christian mission – if the success criteria are church planting and church growth. In just over 100 days, nearly one million citizens (and [...]

Dont say ‘The Bible says So’

I want to say from the outset that I believe in biblical inerrancy, the sufficiency of scripture, and the doctrine the Reformers called Sola Scriptura. I need to tell you that up front, because you might otherwise get very upset at what I’m about to say. While we have to be immersed in scripture and [...]

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 [...]

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