For many people today God is just question mark or exclamation mark, a mental puzzle or a thoughtless expletive. For Christians also he is question mark and exclamation mark (Romans 11.33-36), in the different sense of deep mystery and real marvel....
Four reasons for being a Christian.... (1)I accept scientific understanding, including the processes of evolution, but I do not believe that human life with all its qualities has no other level of explanation....
There have been plenty of ‘good news, bad news‘ jokes. A wife rings her husband at his office and says ‘Which do you want first, the good news or the bad news?’ He responds apprehensively that he‘s up to his neck in problems at work - please can he just have the good news at present...
Carl Medearis and his family lived in Beirut, Lebanon for 12 years. He has a large experience of befriending Muslim people and sharing conversation about Jesus in a non-argumentative way on the basis of the respect in which Muslims already hold him. He has encouraged many Muslim university students, business professionals and political leaders to live their lives according to Jesus' principles.....
I have been reading a recent newsletter from Iris Ministries in Mozambique and I would encourage anyone else to read it through....
God our Father,
Your will be done through your Church.
We do not ask it with passive resignation
but in active pursuit of what pleases you.
Risen Jesus,
Do what is in your own heart to do,
Drawing many more to be your disciples.
Come, Holy Spirit.
Show us your fresh touch on inherited things.
Help us beyond the limits of our own resource.
Lord God, your purposes.
Jesus Christ, your passion.
Holy Spirit, your power.