Mike Pilavachi interviewed for Slipstream
The Slipstream podcast for July is now online. In it we’re talking to Mike Pilavachi, founder of Soul Survivor, Hope 08 and Soul in the City.
Go here to listen.
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The Mission of God
The July ‘Seize the Day’ podcast is now online.
In it I’m talking to Chris Wright, the International Director of the Langham Partnership International, about his magnum opus ‘The Mission of God.’
And John Ayrton and I are continuing our discussion of contemporary spirituality by asking how Christians can respond to the outpourings of grief expressed at [...]
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Giving away your daughter
This is (more or less) what I said on Saturday:
On the wall over my desk, there’s one of those frames that holds twenty or so different pictures.
It’s filled with photographs of the three people who matter most to me. So obviously, there are quite a few photos of Judy, and then there are pictures of [...]
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Facing the Challenge: More resources for Session 4 - Cross-cultural
'missionaries'
Web articles
Web sites can appear, disappear, and change their addresses - specially on
less well-established sites. If you cannot find the article you want, try looking
for the title of the article using a search engine, e.g. Google.com.
'Learning the Language' - not all it's cracked up to be?
In this session we say that we need to 'learn the language' of the people
around us - especially young people. How valid is this? One recent participant
in the course took issue with us. Read more...
The
Engel Scale
For a more detailed
explanation of the Engel scale (discussed in the background briefing
to this session), including the opportunity to read an on-line
version of James Engel & Wilbert
Norton's classic 'What's
Gone Wrong with the Harvest?' go here.
Books:
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Blind Alley Beliefs
David Cook, IVP 1996 (second edition)
This book gives an overview of half a dozen contemporary worldviews - postmodernism, existentialism, humanism, Marxism, scientific materialism and anarchism. For each, Cook tests the worldview against three key questions: Is it self-consistent? Does it correspond to what we know? Does it work? He also shows how the message of the Bible stands up when tested against the same questions.
David Cook is the former director of the Whitefield Institute in Oxford, and has been a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4's 'The Moral Maze'.
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Hollywood
Worldviews
Watching
Films with Wisdom and Discernment
by
Brian Godawa
InterVarsity
Press, ISBN
00-8308-2321-2
Godawa gives
an insider's view of movie making, while looking at this area
of modern culture with the open eyes of one who appreciates the
arts, especially the art of storytelling through movies. Read
more...
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Preaching to a Postmodern World
by Graham Johnston, InterVarsity 2001
This is an excellent book on contemporary communication. It sets out to answer the question how we can adapt our methods to be more effective at reaching people today, without watering down our message to suit the convenience of postmodern listeners. It will be invaluable to anyone who is involved in communicating the message of the Bible on a regular basis - preachers, junior church leaders, home group leaders, Christian union leaders, teachers, and writers.
Graham Johnston is senior pastor of Subiaco Church of Christ, Western Australia, and an adjunct lecturer in homiletics at Perth Bible College.
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The Universe Next Door
James W Sire, IVP 1988 (Third Edition)
Described as 'A Basic Worldview Catalog', this book encourages us to think in terms of worldviews. It compares Christian Theism, Deism, Naturalism, Nihilism, Existentialism, Eastern Pantheism, the New Age and Postmodernism (new in the third edition).
Dr James Sire is senior editor at InterVarsity Press USA.
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