Reading Krish Kandiah thoughtful article relating to effective preaching under the title “Reimaging Biblical Preaching” got me thinking that perhaps effective preaching needs to be “re-imagined” in our minds as less of an event at which the preacher performs andRead more…
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The Lausanne Global Conversation was an online platform for connecting participants in the Lausanne Movement's Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town, South Africa (Cape Town 2010) before, during and after the Congress.
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Re-imagining Preaching as a Process Part 1
Reading Krish Kandiah thoughtful article relating to effective preaching under the title “Reimaging Biblical Preaching” got me thinking that perhaps effective preaching needs to be “re-imagined” in our minds as less of an event at which the preacher performs andRead more…
DID THE CHURCH PASS ON THE BATON IN EUROPE?
People reflect about their context of living and working from their local point of view where family, jobs, education, ministry and social life make the components of life. They take a natural interest into what is happening upstream in societyRead more…
Hermeneutics Cured Me
There was no way anyone could convince me that the Prosperity Gospel was not absolutely true. I had graduated Rhema Bible Training Centre, sitting two years under the feet of the grandfather of prosperity teaching, Kenneth Hagin, Sr. I hadRead more…
New Media, Social Networking and ministry
Each year I have the privilege of teaching some classes on new media and ministry at Media Village’s School of Video Production. Since most of the persons on the course are not theologically trained we spend the first day discussingRead more…
Preaching as a Process that Never Stops!
Reading Krish Kandiah thoughtful article relating to effective preaching under the title “Reimaging Biblical Preaching” got me thinking that perhaps effective preaching needs to be “re-imaged” in our minds as less of an event at which the preacher performs andRead more…
Christ-centered Ethnographic Field Research
Here, I’d like to share a brief article that I wrote related to Ethnographic Field Research (EFR). I always like to develop theological foundations for the things I do in mission. That desire prompted this paper. An excerpt follows. TheRead more…
The Prophetic Migrant
A response to Samuel Escobar’s ’Migration & Ethnic Conflict’ Samuel Escobar offers three challenges to the church in his essay on migration: the challenge to show compassion toward migrants, the need to take a prophetic stance against unjust treatment ofRead more…
The Blessings Of The Other
A response to Samuel Escobar’s ’Migration & Ethnic Conflict’ Samuel Escobar raised one of the main challenges of migration, which is the acceptance of the ’other’—the one different from us. Migrants, as the ’other,’ are often regarded as threatsRead more…
The Heart Of The Gospel
A response to Samuel Escobar’s ’Migration & Ethnic Conflict’ I first read Samuel Escobar’s timely article aboard a flight from Toronto, Ontario, bound for Edmonton, Alberta. Flying across Canada, a nation touted for its ’vigorous immigration policy’ and official MulticulturalismRead more…