A few decades ago, Walter Broughton reported a study finding that what we believe affects our ministry. For example, if we believe in the providence of God—which holds that God’s purpose is achieved in partnership with His people, the Church—this tends to cause us to increase our ministry to people in need. It is a [...]
A few weeks ago I had the television on and came across a program celebrating the 40th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” As I heard the stories of the events that led to that historic walk on the moon I was confronted by a statistic that [...]
Everyone is accountable for something to someone. Accountability is simply inescapable. The ramifications are enormous. Whether the setting is business, industry, education, family life, or ecclesial organizations, we are all accountable.
The topic of accountability crosses our minds almost daily. Hardly anything we do does not imply some sense of our accountability. Think of the relationships [...]
Recently we took part of our youth group on a weekend trip to Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. Together with the local youth group we organized a couple of outreach activities. Friday night we had a youth service. On Saturday we cleaned the streets of the community around the church and in the evening we organized a [...]
It is an early August morning in Africa on the first day of Ramadan, the holy month of Islam. Just after 5 A.M., the first of five daily calls to prayer began to be broadcast over a distant PA system, loud enough to be heard through locked hotel windows miles away.
After opening the balcony [...]