India: Good Shepherd Ministries
India’s outcast Dalits (untouchables) have endured three millennia of oppression and injustice.
Leaders of this group, which totals a quarter of a billion people, have in recent years asked the church and Christian organisations in India to assist them in their plight. Good Shepherd / Operation Mobilisation India Ministries (GS/OM India Ministries) is at the forefront of this response and the massive movement of the Holy Spirit underway among India’s Dalits.
The Third Degree
UCCF hi-tech
Pod Bhogal
Date posted: 1 Jun 2012
UCCF is set to enter the second phase of the Uncover project by launching an interactive gospel.
Following on from the success of Uncover (where CU members have been reading the Bible with their non-Christian friends), UCCF’s sixth Gospel Project will carry the same name. Using Luke’s account of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, the resource will host a number of interactive features utilising new technologies such as QR codes.
Skateboarding to God's glory
Stephen Nowak
Date posted: 1 Jun 2012
The Apostle Paul instructed the Christians in Corinth to do all to the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10.31).
Being a Christian is that life-long pursuit of submitting all that we are, have and do to the Lordship of Christ so that God is glorified in all we are, have and do.
Grace growing at a pace
Barry King
Date posted: 1 Jun 2012
Despite worsening societal conditions and a spiritual malaise among the churches, God is pleased to grant encouragements.
One such encouragement is the growth and development of Grace Baptist Partnership. Firmly committed to the doctrines of grace, convinced Baptists in terms of ecclesiology, and concerned not only with the independence of local churches but with their interdependence as well, the Partnership seeks to glorify God by growing leaders, planting churches and reaching nations.
The Third Degree
Rigour with vigour
Pod Bhogal
Date posted: 1 Mar 2012
Mike Reeves is Head of Theology for UCCF: The Christian Unions.
We caught up for natter about theology, mission and his new book The Good God.
Astounding stories of God's intervention in Islamic Africa
No one comes to know Jesus except by God’s own hand. This is nowhere more evident than where believers are persecuted for their faith.
When he calls people, he gives them the faith to stand their ground, and fulfils his purpose in them.
The Third Degree
Student Christmases
Pod Bhogal
Date posted: 1 Feb 2012
‘It was a privilege to speak at four packed carol services on December 11 [for Southampton Christian Union]’, commented Adrian Holloway, evangelist at Christ Church in London.
He continued: ‘As 550 people filed out of the first service through one door, another 550 entered through a different door for the second! The CU president had to interrupt the service to ask people to ‘budge up’ to create space for these folks to get seats.
Christianity Explored: next ten
Rico Tice
Date posted: 1 Mar 2012
Christianity Explored has just celebrated its tenth birthday.
We thought we should celebrate what has been achieved and — most importantly — plan and pray about how to take the ministry forward over the next ten years.
Companion of the exalted Jesus
Timothy Dudley-Smith
Date posted: 1 Mar 2012
‘Jesus is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful’ (Revelation 17.14).
We come — from across the world — to remember our brother John. We come to give thanks to God for him; and to offer his family, with those like Frances Whitehead who were closest to him, our shared support in loss, and in that grief which goes with love. And along with them, his curates, colleagues, study assistants and innumerable friends — and latterly his devoted nurses and carers at the College of St. Barnabas.
Maritime theology
Robert Letham
Date posted: 1 Apr 2012
Book Review
A GRACIOUS AND COMPASSIONATE GOD
Mission, salvation and spirituality in the Book of Jonah
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Why go to Bible college?
Robert Strivens
Date posted: 1 Apr 2012
Sam believes that he is called to full-time gospel ministry. His church leaders agree.
He has led a home group for some time and has done a little preaching. He is a godly man and gives evidence of having the necessary gifts. He and the elders of the church think it is time for him to begin serious training. How should he go about it?
Should you move and join another church?
Ken Brownell
Date posted: 1 Mar 2012
After rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem, ‘the city was large and spacious’, but there were few people in it (Nehemiah 7.4).
There is a similar situation in many churches in our inner cities. There are small congregations in buildings that quite simply need more people. It would be wonderful if these were filled through conversions, but that is not happening. No doubt some churches are in-grown, but most churches I know are actively evangelistic. What these churches need is more people with the attitude, gifts and money that will strengthen them in their mission.
Take up your cross and follow me
Don Carson
Date posted: 1 Dec 2011
Don Carson's talk at Grace Baptist Mission's 150th anniversary was broadcast by BBC Radio 4's Sunday Worship.
For many people, the thought of missionary work sounds, at best, painfully old-fashioned.
Christian anniversaries 2012
Joy Horn
Date posted: 1 Jan 2012
General
A famous letter was written in AD 112 by Pliny, the governor of Bithynia in Asia Minor, to the Roman emperor Trajan, asking for advice concerning the attitude to take in relation to groups of Christians in his province. This is a fascinating and vital piece of evidence concerning the activities of early Christians and the attitude of the Roman authorities to them.
Thomas Helwys founded the first Baptist congregation in Spitalfields, London, in 1612. He advocated the principle of religious liberty, and for this was thrown into Newgate prison, where he died by 1616.
Apostolic failure
Graham Heaps
Date posted: 1 Jan 2012
Book Review
FATHERING LEADERS, MOTIVATING MISSION
Restoring the role of the apostle in today’s church
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City sense
Geoff Gobbett
Date posted: 1 Feb 2012
Book Review
SEEKING A CITY WITH FOUNDATIONS
Theology for an urban world
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Blogs for Brits
Mark Driscoll, the controversial pastor of Mars Hill mega-church in Seattle, wrote a blog in January, in which, among other things, he reflected upon the spiritual condition of the UK.
This came in the aftermath of an interview which appeared in the February issue of Christianity magazine, with which he took exception. It is good to see ourselves as others see us, so here are some of his words.