We had no electricity, no phone network, not much else we could do. My daughter suggested reading a Psalm and praying for those neighbours who we eventually learned were rescued.

Peacebuilding and advocacy are complementary, sometimes intertwined disciplines. After all, there can be no true peace without justice.

The church needs the move of the Holy Spirit more than ever, to bring greater unity and collaboration of churches and mission organizations to fulfil the Great Commission.

The roots of human rights actually go back much further than the Enlightenment, to minority Christian traditions including Mennonites and Baptists.

After the fall of the al-Asad regime, we are reminded of cases such as Libya and Iraq, where war did not lead to stable governments.

The situation of the + 30 million gypsies across Europe is similar. They are the excluded ones, the ones kept at a distance.

God, the Bible, the communicators and listeners, are all critical features of expository preaching.

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.