October 31, 2005
WE ARE LIVING THROUGH ONE OF THE MOST TRANSFORMING MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF RELIGION WORLDWIDE. Yet western observers are blind to the most significant and revolutionary changes in today’s world. Consequently they misread the global future. Their myopic view of Christianity historically as a western faith distorts their perspective on what is yet to […]
October 24, 2005
HURRICANES, TIDAL WAVES, EARTHQUAKES AND PESTILENCES SEEM TO BE COMING WITH ALARMING FREQUENCY THESE DAYS. While scientists and politicians discuss the threat of global warming, televangelists speculate about end time signs. So to meet a group of Christians engaging with creation from a perspective of hope last week in Portugal was most refreshing. Prior to […]
October 17, 2005
ONE LAST TIME, BEFORE CHANGING THE SUBJECT! Andreas, a Hope for Europe colleague – and a sober German – wrote to me after a recent visit to the cinema: “While we were waiting for the main movie to start, the whole (and I mean the WHOLE) array of advertisements (from cars to cigarettes) and ALL […]
October 10, 2005
DID YOU GET RYANAIR’S OFFER THIS WEEK TO CELEBRATE HALLOWEEN IN SPAIN WITH “FIENDISH GHOULS, CHAINSAW WIELDING MONSTERS AND POSSESSED SOULS WHO WILL TERRIFY YOU TO YOUR VERY CORE”? “Located near Salou on the Costa Dorada, the PortAventura theme park becomes a haven for all things freaky between 1st October and 13th November, with scary […]
October 3, 2005
LAST WEEK’S WW ON ENGAGEMENT WITH NEW SPIRITUALITY produced encouraging signs that we may be awakening from deep slumber across the continent to the new realities. “Thank you for your provoking words,” wrote one fellow YWAMer. “I think you’ve ‘hit’ on something in regards to our YWAM training programs‚Ķare we truly aware of the trends […]
September 26, 2005
WW resumes after a six week break, mostly spent in Brazil, 60 hours of which on buses, 30 on planes and over 100 in meetings… WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO AWAKEN THE BODY OF CHRIST to the changing spiritual climate in Europe today? What will it take to arouse us as followers of Jesus to […]
August 15, 2005
BASEL, SWITZERLAND OCT 31 – NOV 3, 2005 A SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION IS QUIETLY HAPPENING ACROSS EUROPE TODAY. It’s not the radical muslim fundamentalist agenda clogging today’s headlines and editorials. Quietly, under the radar, it is spreading and growing, shaping the minds and spirits of company exectutives, schoolchildren, educationalists an housewives, and shaping our continent’s future. […]
WEEKLY WORDS WILL RESUME SEPTEMBER 12. I WILL BE TRAVELLING IN SOUTH AMERICA UNTIL THEN. ONLY THE SMALL SIGN ‘MENNO’S FERMANJE’ DISTINGUISHED THE HOUSE FROM OTHERS IN THE STREET. Three simple windows and a door. Modest living quarters in the front, and a high roof over the rear section for the farm animals. A typical […]
August 8, 2005
THE FAMOUS ANNUAL MONTREAUX JAZZ FESTIVAL WAS IN FULL SWING at the eastern end of Lake Geneva as our ‘Share the Heritage’ tour bus passed through last month en route to a destination a further twenty minute’s drive to the south, the town of St Maurice. This used to be on the main route from […]
August 1, 2005
FROM THE OLD WOODEN PRAYER TOWER OVERLOOKING THE GRAVEYARD ‘GOTTES AKKER’, we looked out over the treetops to the brown-tiled roofs of the eighteenth-century town of Herrnhut. Green and golden fields rolled eastwards towards distant steamclouds rising from a Polish power station, and southwards to pale blue mountains in the Czech Republic. In the near […]
July 25, 2005
WE PARKED OUR BUS JUST OUTSIDE THE STAR-SHAPED DEFENCE EMBANKMENTS AND WALKED INTO THE PICTURESQUE TOWN, just twenty minutes’ drive outside of Amsterdam. A large bronze statue outside the first church we came to told us we were headed in the right direction. Few Dutch people could tell you who this imposing figure represented, but […]
July 18, 2005
PRAGUE! ONE OF MY FAVOURITE CITIES… built on a bend in the river whose name I can never remember – the Vltava. The Charles Bridge lined by statues and artists, the cathedral and the castle on the hill, the Old Town Square with its astronomical clock whose apostles appear every hour on the hour, and […]
