Archive for 'December,2009'

God’s Big Design: Life as He intends it to be

God’s Big Design: Life as He intends it to be

Why do you work? To pay the bills? To fund gospel work? Does work have any inherent value? Or is it just a necessary evil? Those are important questions, especially for those who spend forty hours [...]

A beginner’s guide to creation

A beginner’s guide to creation

Here is an excellent little book. It does what is says on the cover! It is an introduction to thinking through the challenges put forth against God’s creative activity. It is clearly aimed at those who [...]

Connected Christianity: Engaging Culture Without Compromise

Connected Christianity: Engaging Culture Without Compromise

This short, helpful and challenging book, answers the fundamental question, ‘How can believers be in the world but not of the world?’ Easily read in a couple of hours, it has a message requiring much thought [...]

Darwin and Darwinism 150 years later: Biblical faith and the Christian worldview

Darwin and Darwinism 150 years later: Biblical faith and the Christian worldview

This little book is invaluable as a survey of the development of evolutionary theory in the thought of Charles Darwin against the backdrop of the religious influences in his life, whilst at the same time presenting [...]

Darwin, Creation and the Fall: Theological challenges

Darwin, Creation and the Fall: Theological challenges

If science contradicts the Bible, then science is wrong. But if science contradicts my interpretation of the Bible, then perhaps my interpretation is wrong, and science is right. Our interpretation of Scripture must therefore be constantly [...]

Up against giants: mission to FE and sixth form colleges

Up against giants: mission to FE and sixth form colleges

I wonder how David felt as he stood in Goliath’s shadow, slingshot in hand with just five smooth pebbles? No doubt he should have been petrified… but of course we know the story: his confidence was [...]

Summer camp in Moldova

Summer camp in Moldova

Maureen, Christine, Matt, Aled, Carwyn, Alice and Katie, a group of ordinary people from Heath Evangelical Church in Cardiff, set out to Moldova to work alongside the local Christians and help run a camp at an [...]

A week on United Beach Mission

A week on United Beach Mission

Saturday: ‘It is the Lord, let Him do what seems good to Him’ (1 Sam. 3:18). Preparing to travel from Cwmbran to Mumbles to join the beach team today – this verse blessed and encouraged me. [...]

A week on outdoor camp

A week on outdoor camp

Saturday Arrived on site in time to help set up. Feeling nervous about meeting the kids in my tent – will they want to do Bible studies? Will they listen to me? Will they like me? [...]

The challenge of no diagnosis: Living with the unknown

The challenge of no diagnosis: Living with the unknown

Ben and I have been married for eleven years and we have two sons, Reuben, who is five and Jonah was three in the summer. But this story begins with the birth of our second son [...]