Cornhill goes north
Tim Chester
Date posted: 1 Jul 2001
September 2000 saw the launch in Sheffield of the Northern Cornhill Training Course.
Northern Cornhill is based on the Proclamation Trust's successful Cornhill Training Course.
For disciples
Julia Cameron
Date posted: 1 Jul 2001
Book Review
A LIVING SACRIFICE:
The life story of Allen Yuan
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One way of winning
Debbie Meroff
Date posted: 1 Jun 2001
Ten years ago, Marcel Stoob was playing professionally on Switzerland's football team. 'Football was my passion', he says, 'and I was good'.
But then an Achilles heel injury put an end to his dreams for competing for the World Cup. When his young wife also suddenly died of cancer, it seemed like the end of the world. He recalled: 'I thought, why does God take everything away from me that I care about?'
Commission 2000
Michael Griffiths
Date posted: 1 Mar 2001
A university hall packed with 2,000 African university students gathered after Christmas to face the challenge of cross-cultural mission. They came from everywhere between Egypt and South Africa.
February's EN reported on the Urbana Missionary Convention organised every three or four years for US students.The triennnial TEMA Conferences for Young People have drawn the attention to the needs of the unevangelised world.
Grace, Grit and Gumption
Geraint Fielder
Date posted: 1 Apr 2001
One Saturday morning in May 1891, in the unchurched and sprawling industrial area of East Moors, Splott, Cardiff, two men could be seen putting up a large tent.
The older man of 45, John Pugh, was unused to swinging a sledgehammer and he had lumbago for a month. The younger man, Seth Joshua, who was in his early 30s, was adept at the job. Just as they finished, one of the rough characters of the area passed by. He was curious as to what was going on.
Letter from America
Doctrinal controversies are good for you!
Josh Moody
Date posted: 1 May 2001
Doctrinal controversies are far from uncommon in America. Of course, the ecumenical movement is influential here, with the Evangelical and Catholic attempts to form some kind of statement that can get mutual approval, the broad-based evangelistic campaigns of Luis Palau and the like, and with other, more liberal, ecumenical movements. But, there is still much in the way of doctrinal disagreements and arguments in churches, between churches, in denominations.
One of the most important ongoing battles in this regard is in the Southern Baptist Convention. The SBC is the largest Protestant denomination in the world, has extraordinarily rich reserves of money and talent, and is very influential throughout the world by way of its vigorous and commendable support of missionaries. Being so large makes it vulnerable to mega-politics.
Keep the fire!
John Benton
Date posted: 1 May 2001
Billy Kennedy is an evangelist with many years of outreach and pastoral experience in reaching young people. He talked to EN about his life and its lessons.
EN: Billy, tell us about the early days of your life.
Monthly column on hymns and songs
Christopher Idle
Date posted: 1 Feb 2001
Once upon a time an international mission (they used to be Missionary Societies) asked me for a list of 'missionary hymns' to use at its meetings and services. I drew up a core selection of 120 drawn from over 30 books
We wondered whether to classify them or simply list them A-Z. I offered two basic sections; God's initiative (Jesus shall reign; Thou whose almighty word) and our response (Facing a task unfinished; O Master, when thou callest)- and so on. But many classics (Ye servants of God; We have a Gospel to proclaim) include both, matching the perspective of the Great Commission in Matthew 28.
Monthly column on the arts
David Porter
Date posted: 1 Apr 2001
Publishing Christian art books today is a hazardous business; most of it is in the hands of small enthusiastic publishers committed to publishing art rather than building a business empire.
So it's been quite a surprise in the last year or two to see one of the most exciting developments in this field coming, originally, from Britain's largest publishing-and-bookshop giant, STL. The first mention in this column came with an enthusiastic review of Hilary Brand and Adrienne Chaplin, Art and Soul (1999), published under STL's Solway imprint and one of the most substantial books on Christian art to have been published in the evangelical market since Hans Rookmaaker's decades ago.
Hyper-separatism - no way forward
Jonathan Stephen
Date posted: 1 Jan 2001
In his now almost legendary address at the opening of a 'National Assembly of Evangelicals' held in October 1966, Martyn Lloyd-Jones urged that evangelicals must stand apart from false ecumenism and 'stand together as churches, constantly together, working together'.1 It has been all too easy for commentators of every doctrinal hue to draw simplistic and unjustifiable conclusions from what was said that night. The fact is that the preacher had no clear blue-print for the future in his mind.
China: theological turmoil - justification by love
Norman Cliff
Date posted: 1 Mar 2001
This past autumn I had a seven-week journey through eight provinces of China and was made aware of a serious theological threat to the unity of this country's fast-growing Church.
Since 1996 Bishop K. H. Ting (Ding Guang-xun) has been advocating with a sense of urgency a Faith Reform Movement, the teaching of which strikes at the very heart of Protestant theology. This concept was enunciated when the Three Self Patriotic Movement was formed in the early 1950s.
2001 - a Grace odyssey
Joy Horn
Date posted: 1 Jan 2001
General
The Council of Chalcedon in 451 affirmed that the divine and human natures are united in the person of Christ.
The Officers' Christian Union was founded in 1851.