We sit down to read Luke’s Christmas Story and we think we already know it: there’s Joseph and Mary, searching the streets of Bethlehem for a place to have their baby. There’s the mean inn-keeper saying, “no room for you here!” Then there’s the starlight shining on a cozy little stable. Mary gives birth, and…
The Gospel is for all cultures and subcultures. It needs to be contextualized to reach all peoples and expressed in various forms. Hear A.RON rap the Gospel in under 60 Seconds.
Five hundred years ago on October 31, 1517, a German theologian named Martin Luther nailed a protest (with 95 bullet points!) on the door of a local church. Luther’s bold and controversial action spawned a movement that would change the church and the world. This act of “protest” (where we get the term Protestant) was…
All work is typically done out of a worldview. Everyone has a worldview, a framework through which they interpret reality and answer life’s ultimate questions. The temptation then for the Christian, is simply to plunge into workplaces dominated by secular worldviews and conduct their work lives according to the reigning paradigms, rather than seeing work…
Several months ago I took my children up to a waterfall near Genting. After an enjoyable swim, I accidentally knocked one of my shoes into the swift-moving current. I immediately called out to my kids to help me retrieve it, but our best efforts were in vain. My shoe was gone. I was dreading the…
At least once a week, I’m asked if I know of any seminary graduates or pastors available to pastor a small or medium-sized church. This week I was asked this question three times. The reality is about to hit the Malaysian church hard. For most churches that still have pastors, retirement is just around the…
It is widely known that more people alive today live in cities rather than the countryside. This is a radical shift from 1900, where only 12 percent of the world was urban. Urbanization is continuing at pace, moving toward a world that will be 70 percent urban by 2050. Malaysia is already 74.7 percent urban…
Did you know there is a new network of churches forming to advance the gospel in Kuala Lumpur? It’s something you should know about and consider joining. Gospel City Network is about something bigger than us.