Monthly column for youth leaders
Jo Horn
Date posted: 1 Feb 2001
Know anyone with a camping stove stashed away somewhere?
It could be a valuable evangelistic tool this month. Oh no! Just when you thought it was safe to read a youth column, someone's mentioned the 'e' word.
Understanding Roman Catholicism - an evangelical approach from Italy
IFED
Date posted: 1 Dec 2000
As the first year of the new millennium draws to a close, the calls for Christian unity regardless of truth, seem to be ever louder. The following article came to EN from The Institute for Evangelical Formation and Documentation (IFED) and Italian Evangelical Alliance.
In the years following Vatican II (1962-65) evangelicals have shown renewed interest in Roman Catholicism.
Letter from America
The Bible versus books on the Bible!
Josh Moody
Date posted: 1 Jan 2001
He was an unusual character. Small, squat and very lively.
A group of bright-eyed, intelligent students were gathered around him, crowding out the large room in which we were meeting. There were books everywhere - wall-to-ceiling bookshelves with line upon line, double-shelved large volumes of theology and philosophy, science, and you name it.
My hiding place
Khalda
Date posted: 1 Jan 2001
My story is of how God became 'my hiding place', my hope in a place where there was no hope.
My parents came over to England in the early 1960s. I grew up in the city of Coventry in a Pakistani Muslim home. Family life was very strict and traditional; we were not allowed to mix socially with the English children at school.
A passion for Piper?
Simon Vibert
Date posted: 1 Nov 2000
John Piper is the senior pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church (BBC) in Minneapolis.
He is author of more than a dozen books and has been in the UK speaking at conferences organised by such diverse groups as FIEC, Banner of Truth and the Clarendon Centre.
Making us accountable
Trevor James
Date posted: 1 Oct 2000
Radical changes are in prospect for all churches in England and Wales . . .
Proposals put forward by the Home Office and the Charity Commission will require places of worship to register with the Charity Commission from April 2001. The Charity Commission estimate that in total 100,000 groups will be affected.
World Christians
Julia Cameron
Date posted: 1 Sep 2000
Book Review
WE ARE THE WORLD: Globalisation and the changing face of missions.
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Westophobia?
Anthony McRoy
Date posted: 1 Nov 2000
Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim ('In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate') - is how most speakers began their talks at the London conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists in September.
One speaker began with the words: 'In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ; peace to him that is far off and to him that is near - Isaiah 57.19'.
Drug smuggler finds the Lord
Religion Today
Date posted: 1 Nov 2000
God's grace has miraculously transformed a notorious cocaine smuggler, a man who destroyed countless lives, into an ardent Christian.
Jorge Valdes said he was pocketing more than $1 million a month in the late 1970s as the US head of Colombia's notorious Medellin cartel, then the world's largest criminal organisation.
Discipline of debate
John Benton
Date posted: 1 Nov 2000
While visiting England in September Professor Jim Packer spoke to EN.
In this, the second part of his interview, he takes up questions which follow on from his emphasis on the need to contend for the biblical gospel within Anglicanism.
Hyper-separatism (or contracting the circle)
Jonathan Stephen
Date posted: 1 Nov 2000
The first article in a three-part look at a serious hindrance to evangelical unity . . .
Earlier this year, a booklet was issued with the title Bible Churches Together - A Plea for True Ecumenism(1). It had three related aims: to clarify the position of the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches with regard to the ecumenical movement, to provide some background information about the new network called Essentially Evangelical and to urge greater co-operation between all churches that were genuinely submissive to the authority of the Bible.
2,000 years of Jewish evangelism
John Ross
Date posted: 1 Aug 2000
After the Ascension of Jesus, the witness of the apostles to the Jewish community was marked with outstanding success.
In only one day, the Jewish feast of Shavuot (Pentecost), 3,000 were baptised, and each day following 'the Lord added to their number' until over 5,000 men believed, not counting women and children. No section of the Jewish community lay outside the reach of the good news, even '. . . many of the priests were obedient to the faith' and with the transformation of the Sanhedrin's leading hit-man, Saul of Tarsus, first-century Judaism was shaken to its core.
A fire shining brightly
Emma Carswell
Date posted: 1 Sep 2000
Over 10,000 evangelists, pastors and preachers met in Amsterdam in early August for the largest international gathering of ministers ever held.
Ill health prevented Billy Graham from attending the conference that his organisation had hosted. At the last minute even plans for him to deliver the opening address by satellite had to be abandoned.
Underground gospel
It is full of cast-off sofas and television sets. It has an ancient organ and piano gathering dust in one corner, and a disused pool table shrouded by junk of all descriptions in the other.
A huge sheet of plywood covering the ancient snooker table props up two huge loudspeakers that pump out music generated by the two record decks that it also supports. The weather-beaten green side-door, the entrance to the room, is cheap, shabby and entirely appropriate. The room is not state-of-the-art, neither is it conventional in church terms. It is not luxurious, but comfortable. Not chic, but cosy. The Underground is the perfect venue for the youth outreach every Saturday and Sunday night.
Flying to Christ
Malcolm MacGregor
Date posted: 1 Aug 2000
In an age of preoccupation with the superficial, to discover a man of real quality and courage can be exciting and humbling.
Such a man is my 76 year old friend, Joe Pilkington. Let me tell you a bit about him.
The evangelical bishop
Mr P Landy
Date posted: 1 Jun 2000
Some people see the Church of England as in crisis at the present time. Perhaps lessons from great men of the past need to be heeded.
John Charles Ryle was born on May 10 1816 at Park House, Macclesfield. His father was a banker with an income of £15,000 a year, and he grew up in an environment of privilege and prosperity, but spiritually there was little evidence of vital Christianity. In recalling these early days, he concluded that they were 'destitute of any real religion'.
Romany and Reformed - est-ce possible?
Paul Wells
Date posted: 1 Jul 2000
For 50 years now, a remarkable work of the gospel has been going on in France among the travellers, called 'gypsies' or 'Romany people'.
These were the folk who live mainly in Eastern Europe (and also Spain). Hitler tried to eliminate them along with the Jews and other minorities. They have also been subject to attacks in recent years from extreme right wing groups in Europe.