Definitely leadership material!
John Benton
Date posted: 1 May 1999
The first volume of the official biography of John Stott, by Timothy Dudley-Smith, is published by IVP. EN interviewed the subject and the author of the biography...
EN: John Stott, you came to Christ through the work of E.J.H. Nash (Bash) while you were at Rugby School in the 1930s. And the book gives the impression of you as quite an idealistic youth. What was it about the Lord Jesus Christ that led you to surrender your life to him?
The Good Shepherd in Transylvania
Paul Jansen
Date posted: 1 Mar 1999
Transylvania in northern Romania is associated in most people's minds with Count Dracula and evil deeds. But through his church, God is reaching out in love to the socially-marginalised of this area.
Zoli, a recovered alcoholic from Romania, made the following remark: 'Here in my region, there is an ancient tradition of keeping alcohol in every household and forcing visitors to accept it. In daily life, there is hardly any occasion where drinking is not evident.'
Re-establishing a church
Mr Graham Jones and Dr John Benton
Date posted: 1 Apr 1999
Nearly eight years ago Chertsey Street Baptist Church (CSBC) in Guildford set itself to re-establish a church which had closed in another area of Guildford.
This has now happened, and on April 17 a thanksgiving service will celebrate the independence of Guildford Park Church.
She's a winner ! A gift from God - for God
Mary Davis
Date posted: 1 Apr 1999
Hilary Jolly, winner of St.. Paul's Cathedral Millennium Hymn Competition, has been using her gift with words since she could put pen to paper.
'My mother used to recite poetry as she did the housework - in the way that other people sing,' and when Hilary was only four years old, she wrote her first poem. But following her conversion at the age of 35, Hilary recognised that her gift with words was a gift from God and resolved to use it for him. 'I became a Christian and knowing that I have this gift, I decided from that moment: that gift is for God; he gave it to me, he shall have it back.'
Doing the impossible
David Baker
Date posted: 1 Mar 1999
Ask yourself where the toughest mission fields of the 20th century have been, and you might well think of various distant foreign locations.
But while many of your guesses might be correct, you could easily overlook one of the hardest areas of gospel endeavour in Britain over the last 50 years - and you might be surprised by its location: the world of England's top public schoolboys.
Mother to the Prison
Mrs Kathy Frost
Date posted: 1 Mar 1999
Derek and Kathy Frost joined SIM in 1974 working in Nigeria, but they ended up in Canada with the mission's media team. However, God had another ministry in mind for Kathy . . .
I came to Canada to assist Derek in the office work here - at present, I log on to computer all the filming that he does, so that it can be catalogued and used at any time. It is very time-consuming and I knew it would be - so I prayed that the Lord would give me something else to do. I was thinking of perhaps women's work or children - but the Lord had other ideas.
A life worthy of the calling
Julie Skelton
Date posted: 1 Feb 1999
Previous generations of believers have many lessons and truths to tell about God's dealing with their lives.
It is a great blessing to find that members of your family have kept a record of these so that we can enjoy them and learn from them.
The collapse of liberalism and the growth of fundamentalism
Mr Vishal Mangalwadi
Date posted: 1 Feb 1999
The so-called 'global growth of fundamentalism' is in fact a global - albeit gradual - collapse of liberalism. This is an abridged version of the lecture given last November at the University of Minnesota by Vishal Mangalwadi.
The militancy of the terrorists, the discrimination and persecution of the religious or ethnic minorities, the corruption and oppression of the state, are together demolishing liberalism's assumption that a human being is good enough to govern himself decently without God.
Matters of Life and Death
John Wyatt
Date posted: 1 Jan 1999
John Wyatt has been arguing that even non-Christian doctors have been guided by a Hippocratic-Christian consensus. This extract from his new book, published by IVP, shows how this has been eroded.
It was not until around 1850 that the idea of Christian health professionals going from the West to care for the sick and dying in developing countries came to fruition.
Crowded House
Stephen Timmis
Date posted: 1 Oct 1998
Let's say you are a novice missionary in a foreign country, working among a previously unreached group in the back-of-beyond. What would you do?
This may be slightly presumptuous of me, but I imagine that one thing you wouldn't do was simply what you did back in England: for example, construct a special hut with pews and a pulpit, and meet twice on a Sunday at 10.30 and 6.30.
The Old Testament - Antiques Roadshow?
Dr Chris Wright
Date posted: 1 Oct 1998
Dr. Chris Wright, Principal of All Nations Bible College, gave the first of this year's two Keswick lectures entitled 'The Old Testament - Antiques Roadshow or Tomorrow's World?'. Into which of these two categories does the Old Testament fit? Both of them, according to Chris Wright.
'The Antiques Roadshow' looks at old furniture and decides whether or not it is old junk. 'Tomorrow's World' looks ahead to the future and asks: 'What will happen?'. The Old Testament has both the value of an antique and also points us to the present and the future.
Cast out - but not forsaken
David Kingdon
Date posted: 1 Oct 1998
It was the night of her baptism. Just 17, she had recently been converted under the preaching of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones at Westminster Chapel, but . . . .
When she arrived at her grandfather's house, where her family were staying while their own house was undergoing repairs, Janice Wiseman was denied entry by the butler.
Iran - what happens when Christians forgive
Elam News
Date posted: 1 Oct 1998
The story of Farzin, as heard by an Elam mission team, is very moving ...
Farzin was returning home in Shiraz, on his motorbike, perhaps a little fast, when a young boy of about 11 suddenly appeared in front of him. Knocking the boy over, he fell off his bike and was grazed. The boy, though, was unconscious.
The Spirit fell upon us
Noel Gibbard
Date posted: 1 Aug 1998
The Evangelical Movement of Wales came into being through an exceptional manifestation of God's saving grace and his overruling providence.
The Spirit of God moved powerfully in the University College of North Wales, Bangor, between 1947 and 1949. One of the men converted was J. Elwyn Davies, a theological student and a zealous Student Christian Movement (SCM) worker. He became the leader of the converted students at Bangor. Another student, Herbert Evans, had been converted in 1941, and the basis of a lifelong friendship was formed between the two during these years in Bangor.
High explosive Sunday schools
EN
Date posted: 1 Aug 1998
Trevor and Thalia Blundell now work full-time encouraging and equipping people to teach the Bible to children, through leading training days and writing Sunday School materials.
EN: Did you go to Sunday School as youngsters?
Trevor: Yes, but very irregularly.
Thalia: No. I grew up in a pagan home.
Trevor: I went because some of my friends did and it was a great rumble. After some years, I joined the confirmation class/youth group (around 12 years old) and proceeded to run amok. Sunday School was boring and terrifying, especially when the end of term written examination was held and I had forgotten it was coming up.
