June 29, 2010
So there I was, nearly an hour after midnight, standing with my luggage waiting to be picked up outside the station in Biel, Switzerland. A few souls came and went but nobody seemed interested in rescuing me. In the sidewalk cafes nearby, the atmosphere was subdued, Switzerland having just been knocked out of the World […]
June 21, 2010
More stories surfaced this past week about Muslims coming to faith in Jesus through dreams and visions. I am writing this Weekly Word on the plane flying back from Greece after speaking at a national missions conference. There I met several workers excited about the strategic location of Greece as a doorway for Muslim refugees […]
June 14, 2010
Years ago I shared a couchette with some italians on a train headed north through Europe to Holland. When I asked where they were from, they all said ‘Bari’ in unision, tapping on their heels. My look of incomprehension caused them to dissolve into laughter. Then I realised what they meant. If the map of […]
June 7, 2010
In a recent newsletter, OM founder George Verwer wrote that quite a few Americans he encounters ‘think that the United Kingdom is about to be taken over by Islam or Muslims.’ However, he continues, ‘having lived in Britain for 46 years and loving the people of this nations including all of the immigrants, I want […]
May 31, 2010
Barely a week goes by these days without someone somewhere in the world sending me an email about Geert Wilders, the controversial Dutch politician with the blonded hair. Often the subject line says something like: ‘This will give you the cold chills!!’ ‘This speech clearly shows our situation in the world… well worth reading!’ ‘Read […]
May 24, 2010
As an Indian, Vishal Mangalwadi brings refreshing and penetrating perspectives to western life and values. Those of us who have grown up in the west often take for granted the fruit of the Biblical roots of our society. For example, Vishal trashes the statement in the American Declaration of Independence which claims the idea that […]
May 17, 2010
Dare we dream, like Robert Schuman, about Europe becoming a ‘community of peoples deeply rooted in Christian values’, as we wrote about last week? Today that sort of talk raises eyebrows in many political and academic circles in our multi-culti world. Well, let’s ask ourselves, honestly, what other roots are there? Roots are not […]
March 28, 2010
ww29mar2010.pdf Sixty years ago, Europe was a mess! Hitler’s defeat did not automatically guarantee peace across a devastated and divided continent. Chaos threatened on all sides. Hatred and bitterness towards the enemy poisoned grass-roots attitudes among conqueror and conquered alike. Hunger, poverty and unemployment added to the miseries of injury and upheaval. My generation and […]
March 22, 2010
ww22mar2010.pdf 22 mar 2010 Now here's a remarkable twist! Ayaan Hirsi Ali, darling of the liberal crowd, a modern day hero in Richard Dawkins' book, is now appealing to Christian churches to wage a propaganda battle against Islam by starting new Christian schools, sending Christian volunteers into city neighbourhoods and spreading the Christian message! […]
March 15, 2010
ww15mar2010.pdf If New Zealanders focussed on spiritual fitness as much as they do on physical fitness, this land would experience continuous revival. Yesterday, 40,000 participated in the ‘Round the Bays’ run in Auckland city, reputed to be one of the world’s biggest sporting events. Imagine that crowd engaging together in spiritual exercise! In reality, such […]
December 28, 2009
ww28dec2009.pdf There are three reasons why we can face the New Year, or the next twenty years, with hope. They are: 1) the Father; 2) the Son; and, yes, 3) the Holy Spirit. Peter tells us to ‘always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give a reason for the […]
December 21, 2009
Hope, Gerard Kelly told his listeners at the Next 20 Years symposium in Amsterdam ten days ago, was the answer to the question, ‘what did it mean to be human?’ How did we then, as Christians, so lose our vision of what it meant to be human, he asked, that humanist intellectuals rejected Christianity as […]
