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Jesus said, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me” (Mark 8:34). This is Jesus’s figure of speech for self-denial. Every disciple of Jesus is to ‘behave like a condemned criminal and carry his cross to the place of...
WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN?
What does it mean to follow Christ, to be his disciple? Jesus spent three years teaching his disciples what it meant to follow him. A disciple is a learner, and there is much to learn about being a Christian. Christianity is not just an intellectual system, not a...
WHAT IS OUR MISSION? (5)
Evangelism relates to people’s eternal destiny, and in bringing them good news of salvation, Christians are doing what nobody else can do. Seldom if ever should we have to choose between…healing bodies and saving souls…Nevertheless, if we must choose, then we have to...
WHAT IS OUR MISSION? (4)
What is the mission of the church? What is its purpose? Why does it exist? The church itself was seen in the Epistles to be God’s new society, the new community, the new creation of God. The very existence of the church, with the new life its members were living, was...
WHAT IS OUR MISSION? (3)
Our mission is described in the Acts of the Apostles as establishing the Kingdom of the Spirit of Jesus. First of all, there is The Promise of the Spirit in Acts 1. The main topics of our Lord’s instruction during the forty days between his resurrection and his...
WHAT IS OUR MISSION? (2)
The Great Commission has five versions. The most pregnant and the most neglected is John 20:19-23. The essence of Christ’s message is verse 21, ‘I send you.’ Jesus possesses universal authority to send all his disciples into the world. The nature of the mission is,...
WHAT IS OUR MISSION? (1)
Before The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren held conferences on The Purpose Driven Church, one of which I attended in Houston. There is often confusion about our mission. What are we about – our purpose? What is our message? When I arrived at the Chapel in 2000 I...
PRAYERS IN TIME OF WAR
Prayers in time of war. Lord, God, of infinite mercy, we pray that you would look in compassion upon those now involved in war. Pardon our offences, our pride and arrogance, our self-sufficiency and forgetfulness of you. Give wisdom to leaders, courage and endurance...
CORRIE TEN BOOM
This message was given by Corrie ten Boom at the First International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1974. In the Bible we read in Colossians 1:11, ‘As you live this new life with Jesus Christ, we pray that you will be strengthened...
WAR IN UKRAINE
In the light of the current war in Ukraine the following review was posted in my blog in 2018. It gave me a historical perspective on Ukraine and Poland that is invaluable. I want to introduce you to one of the most enthralling works of literature that I have ever...
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