You belong to him

Feeling the pressure to hold everything together yourself? The radical comfort of the gospel is this: you are not your own – you belong to Jesus, the one who holds all …

Running the race

It is tempting to look for numbers and success stories as we seek encouragement in our work for the Lord, but the Apostle Paul gives us a different reason to …

Have you been ‘converted’?

‘What right have you got to go and preach to people of other religions?’ Over two decades ago, I was about to go and work as an architect in India …

Word and/or deed?

This article is in response to Chris Howles’ article ‘Mercy ministries: mandatory or misguided?’ I have wrestled with the dichotomy around ‘word and deed’ or ‘proclamation and action’ or ‘evangelism …

We go at the church’s invitation

‘Oh, we don’t send missionaries any longer. We’ve moved on from those colonial ways.’ I increasingly hear this half-embarrassed, half-confident sentiment from all sorts of people …