God does not act on whims or take things lightly. There is a very deliberate effort to vividly and indelibly impress His true calling upon the church.

If we seek ultimate glory in the human being, we will travel all the paths of Ecclesiastes' frustration.

Europe’s identity as ‘Christendom’, a unity with much diversity, distinct from her pagan Eurasian roots, led to self-perception as a ‘continent’.

If the theme is Christmas, but Christ is missing, then there will be lots of peace on earth and goodwill to all men, but no basis for such a message of hope. 

Let us ‘seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness’ (Matt 6:33) and we will be satisfied to sacrifice our lives to see it manifest.

We must abandon the habit of trying to replicate our denomination in a different culture. We should strive to recapture the spirit of the early church, by identifying solely with Jesus.

The latest encyclical of Pope Francis takes its cue from the Roman Catholic devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus to elaborate a more general reflection on the heart.

Paradoxically, in secular Europe, cathedrals continue to be among the most visited tourist sites.

Thanksgiving also makes sense here in Paiporta, one of the towns most affected by the flood one month ago.

Serve the people getting married, burying a loved one, getting baptised, or whatever, don’t look like you are taking advantage for the sake of the church.

TWR’s national partner in Indonesia reaches the Sundanese through FM radio broadcasts, audio players and listener groups.

In the midst of war, it is humbling to be reminded that the Creator of the universe is personally interested in each of us, and that His love for us is beyond our understanding.

Are we seeing the dawn of thinking machines? And what does this mean for mission, for Christianity, and the world?

Our Christian presence will bring new life into each sphere, much as the expansion of the early church eventually turned the Roman Empire upside down.

More and more young Turks are asking themselves who they really are. And quite a few are discovering their Christian and non-Turkish roots.

We go into the week in relationship to a present Jesus in our hearts by His Spirit, and that makes all the difference in the world.

My description of our “new normal”, which will remain abnormal for weeks to come, could be read as complaining, but in my mind it is exactly the opposite, I feel grateful.

There is no lack of mission-related passages in the New Testament; far from it. These are particular passages that provide a significant emphasis.

Let us continue to pray for more ‘moments of grace’, and a just and lasting end to this war.

Let’s not reduce Old Testament narratives to illustrations or children’s talks, but preach them as well as we can.

The ultimate example of altruistic integrity is Jesus, who although God, ‘did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself’.

Today's mud is a lesson for tomorrow, hard and difficult to take, but it must do more than that, it cannot be in vain.

We join up the dots of life around us to create our own narratives, to explain the realities that we perceive.

I hope that Christian church organizations will seriously address the issue of pastoral care and radically stop the obvious abuse of power by “spirit hunters”.

When leadership and preaching go together, the church isn’t functioning merely as a business, but as a spiritual community responding to the Word of God.