There is no closed door for anyone in the world who wants to come near to God.

Seek to define the values of the church and aspire to be a church that God will trust with newcomers and new believers.

What does the text say?  What does the text mean?  What should the text stir?  This is the Bible study process.

It is crucial to be sure that God is not just The Father in Heaven, or even Jesus’ Father in Heaven, but Our Father in heaven.

Andrew Bunt, author of Finding Your Best Identity, calls churches to build a gospel-centered alternative to the 'affirming' narratives on social media: “We need to offer young people a better community offline, where they can be honest and wrestle with their big questions”.

God offers so much more than mere amnesty. He has paid the great and humiliating price for true justice.

The nature of God’s character should flow into our ministry, which will then characterise our connection with the church.

She is known for her addiction to tranquillizers, her marriage to DiMaggio and to the playwright Authur Miller, her tardiness, her unhappy childhood and her insecurity in front of the cameras.

The Greater Love Declaration upholds “a classic, orthodox Christian teaching on marriage, sex and identity”. “We will not surrender the ‘Greater Love’ of Jesus”, signatories say.

Whatever may be going on around us, Psalm 107 suggests what should be happening inside us.

We travelled nearly 7,000 km, through 15 nations with either a Muslim, Orthodox, Catholic or atheistic background. We encountered 9 currencies, 17 border crossings, and met 205 people. 

The last time I preached the whole Bible in a single message, what text proved pivotal?  It came from Leviticus.  

There are probably people in our churches today who have a personal history with Jesus we don’t know about.

Päivi Räsänen was the main speaker at the 2022 General Assembly of the Spanish Evangelical Alliance: “Everyone should be free to express their deeply held beliefs about important issues without fear of censorship or criminal sanction”.

We absolutely should be loving our neighbour, but it is important to think through what that really means.

Maybe those shepherds, the wise men, Mary and Joseph, would take the baby in their arms and try to imagine what kind of Saviour he would be.

Inside the collaborative world of Jewish evangelism. An article by Aaron Lewin.

Fear is a feature of life in this fallen world. Fear Jesus, for he is more powerful and significant than any evil.

We have no right to go around thinking that we wish we were like this or that person.

As we love one another earnestly, we will benefit from each other’s grace, generosity and gifting.

Universal Pictures will distribute the film. “I hope people flood into theaters to see how God brings beauty from ashes”, said Francine Rivers, author of the novel.

The weekly emotional roller-coaster of preaching often has more low points than adrenaline highs.

Christian psychologist Jonatan Serrano analyses the consequences of the normalisation of pornography in society. “No one would leave a child with a loaded gun in his pocket because he might hurt others or himself, but we are doing that with pornography”.

Global reflections on a universal sin (Part 1/2). An article by Jennifer Javed Khan, Rebecca Yin Foo, Paul Lewis and Susan Ann Samuel.

“Jesus calls us to live and reflect the Kingdom of God here on earth, working for the protection of all creatures without fatalism or desertion”, says the declaration.