Church life
The Great Commission and the local church
Joanthan Leeman
Date posted: 1 Sep 2020
Are you a goer or a sender?
I trust you’ve heard a preacher or a missionary ask that question. Their point: the Great Commission calls some people to leave kith and kin for the foreign fields of unreached peoples. And it calls other people to send missionaries with prayer, finances, and support broadly.
Jim Packer – a personal memoir: from Puritanism to Winnie-the-Pooh
Tony Baker
Date posted: 1 Sep 2020
Tony Baker reflects on several decades of friendship with J.I. Packer
The first time I heard Dr Jim Packer must have been at midweek talks he gave to the CU in Oxford (OICCU) in the 1950s.
Keswick: inside the Convention’s ‘Tardis-style’ new centre
EN
Date posted: 1 Sep 2020
It might sound like a cliché, but on this occasion it happens to be true.
Stepping inside the Keswick Convention’s Derwent Project really is like entering Doctor Who’s Tardis. Not only does it appear to be much bigger on the inside than it looks from the outside, but it is big – in fact, enormous. Indeed, the space seems to go on and on and on… To paraphrase the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, if you thought it was a long way to the local shops, think again…
Ever felt like an impostor?
Sam Hodgins discusses feeling like a fraud and her new identity in Christ
Seventy percent of people are reported to have experienced ‘impostor syndrome’ at least one time in their life. It’s that feeling you have when everyone around you seems to know what they’re doing, but you have no clue. Or when you’ve been asked to take on some responsibility, but you feel like a fraud and wonder when you’ll be found out.
earth watch
Nature in lockdown!
Simon Marsh
Date posted: 1 Sep 2020
How has
lockdown been
for you? The
coronavirus pandemic has affected virtually
every aspect of our lives. Christians have
rightly spent much time discussing when
and how we will be able to meet face-to-face
again for worship.
While most of us were stuck at home
though, many
people
had
a
renewed
appreciation of the nature all around us.
In the absence of traffic noise, we noticed
how loud the birdsong is. Our local parks
and green spaces took on a new importance
for our daily exercise. At the end of every
working day my wife and I would walk
through
the meadows near our house,
enjoying the beauty of creation in a way that
perhaps we didn’t before.
