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By Joni Eareckson Tada | Article
I recently attended a fundraiser in San Francisco for our Joni and Friends Family Retreats. Every year these camps are filled to capacity and scores of families with special needs…
By Mike Goeke and Panel | Cape Town 2010 Congress Video
Mike Goeke, an American pastor, moderates a question and answer time between Congress participants and the panel of presenters. Download Options PC users: Right click a link and choose "Save…
By Henok Ghebrehiwot and Heisha Fernandez | Cape Town 2010 Congress Video
Henok Ghebrehiwot, Director of Bethseda Restoration Ministry in Ethiopia, looks at trends and figures concerning the homosexual population in Africa. He proposes that Africa take a lead in ethics, truth…
By Bryan Kliewer | Cape Town 2010 Congress Video
Bryan Kliewer looks at New Testament passages that can help us shape a ministry to homosexual people, drawing upon the examples of Jesus and Paul. They express the hope for…
By Willy Torresin | Cape Town 2010 Congress Video
Willy Torresin, a Minister in Brazil, gives his testimony as a Christian worker seeking help to work through his struggles with homosexuality. He tells of the failure of the church,…
By Bryan Kliewer and Alan Chambers | Cape Town 2010 Congress Video
Bryan Kliewer, Director of Exodus Alliance, challenges the Church to see the homosexual community as a deliberately unreached people group. Alan Chambers, President of Exodus International, critiques common Evangelical slogans…
By Bryan Kliewer | Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper
Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Bryan Kliewer as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Sexuality: Creation,…
By nic paton | Blog
After a discussion around the use of the idea of Hell in preaching, theology and mission, a pastor friend of mine remarked, "If you take hell away, there goes my…
By Ajith Fernando | Cape Town 2010 Congress Video
Sri Lankan Christian leader Ajith Fernando explains Ephesians 1. He shows how this chapter describes the full picture of salvation, its outworking, and its wonders that we are to declare.…
By Martin Tlustos | Blog
I am deeply troubled about the state of the worldwide evangelical movement. On the one hand, massive growth does take place, and I am deeply grateful to God for his…
By Peter Houston | Blog
I was away at the Provincial Synod of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa last week in Benoni. I confess the synod proceedings didn’t excite me as much as the people…
By James B Carroll | Blog
Alongside a suburban maze of intersecting streets lie several acres of dense woodland. A nondescript gate separates the solitude of this natural oasis from the hub-bub of its man-made…
By Peter Houston | Blog
I remember a few years ago we ran a youth camp over Easter. We had nearly all of our campers sign up for a workshop on “Burnout” run by a…
By Mathew Ndambuki | Article
The New Constitution as a Thorn in the Flesh for Christ’s Church in Kenya: (2 Corinthians 12:7-10) 1.0 Introduction After the general Elections in Kenya in 2007: shortly after the…
By John Travis | Article
A Response to Joseph Cumming’s ‘Muslim Followers of Jesus?’ To facilitate a truly global conversation, we ask Christian leaders from around the world to respond to the Global Conversation’s lead…
