In the weekly email a couple of weeks ago you may have read about one of our mission partners, the Bible Society. And no doubt over the last year you will have heard about the Bible Society report called 'The Quiet Revival' exploring the increase in interest in...
When we worked with Youth With A Mission (YWAM) some of our colleagues took a team to a country where sharing the gospel was illegal. They hired a local man to drive them around. He wasn't a Christian and didn't speak English. The team had one cassette tape that they...
As a child I remember seeing a poster of a completely blank page and, at the very bottom, writing which said, 'This is John 3: 16 in X number of languages.' (X because my memory isn't that great… but statistics from Wycliffe Bible Translators suggest that 1 in...
Lent invites us to draw near to God at a time when the world can feel unsettled and uncertain. Daily news of conflict and suffering can weigh heavily on our hearts, stirring anxiety, grief, and a sense of helplessness. Lent does not ask us to ignore these realities,...
A few weeks ago Nick Webb reminded me of the words of the Benedictine monk Luigi Gioia who speaks of Jesus climbing mountains to pray. Gioia comments that this isn't because God is more available on a mountain top than anywhere else, but because Jesus symbolically...
