Archive for 'October,2011'
November/December 2011
In this issue: Re-focus on Jesus; His Majesty’s government; The summer of 2011; Blessed are the pure in heart; Cry freedom; Life after university; Handel’s Messiah; Focus on Italy; The youth of yesterday; Bala Evangelical Church; [...]
With two hands
What’s the title and why is it significant? It’s called With Two Hands and that’s significant because when people became Christians in the book, they raised two hands, one hand to renounce the devil and the [...]
TOOLKIT: helping you share the gospel
This is a forty-seven page handbag (or pocket) sized booklet written by various evangelists. It is arranged in helpful sections and gives quotes, facts and Bible verses aimed at helping you to find something to say [...]
Test, train, affirm, & send into ministry
This little book – which can be read quite comfortably in a single sitting if you are undisturbed – challenges a number of assumptions that many Christians make about the call to the pastoral ministry. It [...]
Who Chose the Gospels?
This scholarly but well-written book is aimed at two readerships. The first is the ‘liberal’ scholarly community which sees the acceptance of the four gospels in the early church as the outcome of a keen struggle [...]
The Life of John Milne of Perth
The early nineteenth-century was a golden era for the Scottish church. We are familiar with the names of Thomas Chalmers, Robert Murray M’Cheyne, the Bonar brothers, William C. Burns, William Cunningham and Rabbi Duncan, but that [...]
The King James Bible
For the 350th anniversary of the Authorised Version (AV), the Evangelical Alliance organised a National Bible Rally at the Albert Hall in London on 24 October 1961. A scientist, a school teacher and an archaeologist took [...]
We are family
In Matthew 12 Jesus makes a remarkable statement about those who would soon be called His church. When His mother and brothers come to see Him, Jesus looks at His disciples and says: ‘Here are my [...]
Bridging the generation gap
I often receive email newsletters and blogposts from various Christian organisations. I have to admit that I sometimes delete them, when I run out of reading time. However, one caught my eye – Intergenerational Youth Ministry. [...]
Reaching rural Wales
Great to read this. I've been doing a similar thing, going around rura
A little known quarryman in Wales
Thank you for your wonderful article. I happened onto the movie, "Bey
So you have no children?
Thank you so much for writing this article. It is very comforting. It'
The great harvest
I live and worship in Yeadon, in a church born out of the revival. It
Feminine Threads
I was interested in the above review of Diana Severance's book. Althou