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3 months ago

Oceania Family & Children Society & Culture Opinion

But what do you really want—deep desires and necessary plans

By Brian Harris

Are your desires and plans aligned? If so, what might it say about what you really want? How aligned is that yearning to God's will? If it is, there you will find your vocation. If it is not, that might be cause for repentance. Read on so you can figure it out before you die.
3 months ago

Africa Church & Missions Society & Culture Opinion

Word and works witnessing with environmental acts

By Svenja Akwaba

Climate change and rapid biodiversity loss are threatening people, landscapes and all of creation in many parts of the world. Following the example of the Apostle Paul, we should take time to understand local values, traditions, and needs, including environmental concerns, to more effectively proclaim the goodness of God in Jesus Christ.
3 months ago

Africa Family & Children Opinion

Learning to trust God through infertility

By Natalie Mayer

Ironically, it was the birth of her first baby that started Natalie on a journey of trusting God through infertility. Through trials, turmoil, and wrong thinking, we can too easily feel God has abandoned us, only to discover he is our ever present help in times of trouble. This is Natalie's story.
3 months ago

Europe Church & Missions Opinion

Why our eternal future will be wonderfully intercultural and urban

By Peter Rowan

Biblical prophets depict our eternal future as a place of blessed peace where all animosity ceases. John's Revelation extends that to urban and multicultural human society, which the New Testament refers to as a new creation under the reign of Christ. We need to develop better theology and practice of urban mission.
3 months ago

Africa Church & Missions Religious Freedom Opinion

To be happy and know it memorize scripture

By Stefan van der Berg

In our modern age of technological advancements, have we lost the art of memorizing scripture? Memorization not only deepens our spiritual connection but also sharpens our minds and strengthens our faith. Start today and improve your spiritual health.
3 months ago

Asia Church & Missions Society & Culture Opinion

Hope beyond nationalism for Taiwan Strait

By Daniel Chuang

How should Christians on both sides of the Taiwan strait transcend identities shaped by political ideologies and re-establish mutual acceptance and relationships beyond conflict? This opinion contrasts the crisis of closed identity with the hope of open identity, to serve as the foundation for deconstruction and reconstruction.
3 months ago

Asia Church & Missions Opinion

To reach Asia we must disciple in ways more suited to the Asian context

By Chansamone Saiyasak

Christianity in Asia remains disconnected from local cultural expressions so the national evangelical alliances of Asia have identified the need to disciple Christians in ways more suited to the Asian context to ensure the church becomes more locally sustainable and culturally relevant.
3 months ago

Asia Church & Missions Society & Culture Opinion

A case for the gospel for every context with wisdom and grace

By Manik Corea

How do we share the Christian message in a way that makes it intelligible to peoples who do not share similar conceptual-belief system to ours, or one near enough for us to find common ground? How can the Gospel speak through us to a people of foreign tongue and disparate beliefs?
3 months ago

US & Canada Church & Missions Family & Children Society & Culture Opinion

Jesus is coming to a morally grey comic universe, re-setting the standard as the original super hero

By Sergio Cariello

The stories in traditional comics were about justice and the battle between good and evil. More recently, issues like politics, mental health, diversity, inner demons, and social justice are increasingly common. With today's fictional superheroes becoming morally grubby characters, Jesus outshines them all as the real-life hero exemplar.
3 months ago

Africa Society & Culture Opinion

Letting the love of God change our attitudes toward work

By Sibs Sibanda

Work is sometimes viewed as a necessary evil, and even among those with a more biblically aligned view, it can certainly feel like that sometimes. Which is why a discussion of love in the context of work may come as a bit of a surprise. But for Christians, it shouldn't be.
3 months ago

Africa Church & Missions Opinion

With Nigerian believers on the move who will help them spread the gospel?

By Adeolu Felix Olanrewaju

With a large increase of emigration from Nigeria in the last four years, the majority of whom are Christians, could this be a signal to something beyond mere migration? Could this be part of a new wave of missionary engagement around the world?