Archive for 'September,2010'

CCSW: Helping build bridges into local schools

CCSW: Helping build bridges into local schools

For three decades the Christian Council for the Schools of Wales (CCSW) has been helping churches build bridges with their local schools. Each year, many thousands of young people and children across the nation have the [...]

Trick or treat?

Trick or treat?

Growing up, I remember being told by my mum that we didn’t ‘do’ Halloween because it was celebrating evil. I went into school and repeated my mum’s words and you can guess what happened. All my [...]

Satan’s plans for your church

Satan’s plans for your church

Satan has expansive plans for your church. He desires to cause difficulties, division and destruction. Please sit down with an open Bible as we look at three strategies which Satan uses to cause devastation in your [...]

Meeting Jesus: A witchdoctor’s story

Meeting Jesus: A witchdoctor’s story

As fairly new missionaries to the field, Terry and I went to bed one evening with the sound of the witchdoctor’s drum beating heavily, in stark contrast to the total silence that normally accompanied us to [...]

Pagan Wales?

Pagan Wales?

The reality of paganism in Wales today and how the church should respond Paganism appears to be on the rise in Wales today. It can take many forms – Celtic spirituality, return to nature, wholeness, New [...]

What’s hallowed about Halloween?

What’s hallowed about Halloween?

Malcolm’s mother thought it was a bit of a joke. Her son, with other teenagers, was going regularly to a local graveyard trying to communicate with the dead. I gently explained that what he was doing [...]

Jesus Christ high over all

Jesus Christ high over all

Abraham Kuyper of Holland (1837-1920) said: There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Jesus Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry ‘Mine’. What a statement! [...]

What is paganism?

What is paganism?

How do you boil a frog alive? If you throw it in a pot of bubbling water it will jump straight out (so I am told – I’ve never actually tried this!). The only way is [...]

September/October 2010

September/October 2010

Same great content…fresh new design In this theme issue on paganism: What is paganism? Jesus Christ high overall What’s hallowed about Halloween? Pagan Wales? Meeting Jesus: A witchdoctor’s story Satan’s plans for the church Trick or [...]