When Faith meets Fashion

My brother Richard, who is known for sourcing information on the net, recently alerted me to an interesting UK website called Everything Here is an article from this site – there are many others posted which are worth reading. “Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs and Lavinia Brennan are not what I’d expected. They are friends of [...]

Are Christians too sheltered

In this interview Gabe Lyons from Q :Ideas for the Common Good talks with Margaret Feinberg who is the author of “The Organic God” Here is an excerpt from the interview:Margaret: For many of our parents’ generations, I always thought they took on a fortress mentality when it came to life and possibly even engaging [...]

Why movies influence Christian young people more than then Bible

Recently, Bob Moffitt, the co-Founder of the Disciple Nations Alliance, sent us an article by Phil Burgess and Mike Metzger titled Sharing God’s Big Story – How the Arts Give Meaning. Burgess is an educator, writer, and businessman, and a frequent speaker and media commentator on political, business, and cultural issues. Metzger is president of [...]

Just because they are girls

August 2012 Just Because They’re Girls: Evil Worse than the SlaveTrade & the Holocaust In a dark dungeon I stood with a broken heart on centuries-old dry excrement. I was visiting the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, a transshipping point for African captives in the British Atlantic slave trade. In each dungeon, hundreds of slaves [...]

Why we have misunderstood the gospel

Worth watching Tom Wright is a prolific writer from the UK who is widely regarded as a leading evangelical theologian. In this address given at the Calvin Institute in the US earlier this year Wright encourages us to broaden our understanding of the gospel. Watch “How God became King: Why We’ve all misunderstood the Gospel” [...]

Why humility for a leader is not always enough

by Glenn Williams 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 [...]

Evangelism is not working….but it could be

May 2012 by Mark Greene “Amongst all the huff and puff, wailings and gnashing of teeth about the state of the Church, one central fact has been overlooked… the bulk of church-generated initiatives have nothing to do with the way people spend the bulk of their waking hours. That’s why over 50% of evangelicals have [...]

Why I preach the Kingdom

by Derek Brown It is the kingdom of God that lies at the heart of the teaching, life and action of Jesus and it is the kingdom that pervades his parables, miracles and passion. Sadly it would be true to say the church has lost this message. Most Christians think the Kingdom of God is [...]

Tim Keller, Young Leaders, and the Mission of the Church

A vigorous conversation is happening today around the question, “What is the mission of the church?” A few weeks ago, Tim Keller addressed the topic in this blog post on the Redeemer City to City website. In the article Keller puts the conversation under the banner of two related topics: the mission of the church [...]

God plus ordinary people = impact

by Darrow Miller Over the years I have been struck by the fact that God inhabits the ordinary. The birth of a child is an everyday miracle. God often uses unknown people to change their community or world.Dallas Willard captures this concept in The Divine Conspiracy: “The obviously well kept secret of the ‘ordinary’ is [...]

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