Archive for 'Evangelism'
The summer of 2011
Albanian summer It’s 9am and I’m already sweltering. I’m teaching an English lesson to a group of intelligent, eloquent sixteen to twenty-year-olds. Aware of Albania’s deeply corrupt school system (one boy said ‘I don’t work at all, but [...]
We preach, God opens eyes
In evangelism we are called upon to present spiritual truths to men and women who are incapable of understanding these truths because the god of this age has blinded their minds. Written right across the situation [...]
Christianity is unacceptably intolerant
Does this mean, then, that some intolerance is acceptable? Probably, for there are many who say that they will tolerate anything except (Christian) intolerance. Some things, such as child abuse, are not to be tolerated at [...]
Why is God so angry?
Dear Ryan, Thank you so much for your recent letter. I’m glad you’ve started going to the church I suggested. I do pray that things will start to become clearer for you, and you’ll begin to [...]
I don’t need Jesus, I’m a good person
David was a Buddhist man I met during an open-air meeting recently, who swore blind that he had lived a perfect moral life for the past twenty years! As I tried to pinpoint areas of his [...]
Is the Bible unreliable?
A friend of mine who runs a youth group in a rough area told me that he often finds that one of his eight-year-old kids knows absolutely nothing about the Bible … and yet feels quite [...]
Enjoying life without God?
I can honestly say there were many things I enjoyed in my non-Christian life. My ethic was ‘work hard and play hard’. Sure, there were times when I was disappointed or angry with life, but on [...]
Defending the indefensible: The uniqueness of Christ in a pluralistic world
How do we begin to persuade atheists, agnostics and pluralists of the uniqueness of Jesus Christ? In the face of overwhelming criticism, there remain some responses which do us little good. The first could be called [...]
What’s true for you isn’t necessarily true for me
‘Who are you to judge? There are many roads to God. It doesn’t matter what you believe as long as you are sincere.’ How do we share God’s truth in the face of such questions? Behind [...]
Hasn’t the new atheism disproved God?
Atheism was already around 3,000 years ago when David wrote ‘The fool had said in his heart, “There is no God”’ (Ps. 14:1). However, periodically throughout history, it has become resurgent, as Alister McGrath recounts in [...]
A little known quarryman in Wales
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So you have no children?
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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
Being counted for Christ
I would pray that god give me courage to do more thanks for this artic