Category: Columns
Sin, sex and salvation
by Ian Adnams We are all born spiritually broken and deserving death. Our soul’s natural state is one that is cut off from God. We neither have the desire to seek Him nor follow Him. In this state of sin, with a broken relationship with…
Praying for pastors: God alone can give His people an increase of harvest-workers
by Robert Bugbee God will have to give us the pastors we need. He promises in the Old Testament, “I will place shepherds over them who will tend them” (Jeremiah 23:4). The New Testament says it, too: “It was He who gave some…to be pastors…
Stolen aid not whole story of disaster response
Media focuses on what goes wrong, but bigger story is many things go right by John Longhurst As I read the article about stolen aid Somalia in various media websites this week, I thought: “Yep—right on schedule.” And what schedule is that? Just as there…
Where do we find peace on Earth?
by Peggy Pedersen Growing up in the 1960s, I saw the peace sign everywhere. People locked arms singing: “Give peace a chance.” Mostly these were protests against war, but it was also an age when people sought inner peace as well. Gurus offered peace…
British church leader identifies cause of riots
by Reginald Quirk Dramatic television pictures leave the impression Britain’s capital is ablaze in a re-enactment of the Great Fire of London. The incidents, although unsettling and awful, are isolated. Beginning with a peaceful demonstration hijacked by rioters in North London last week, on subsequent…
Responding to famine in Somalia and gunfire in Norway
by Ian Adnams What a troubling week for our troubled world. First, news of famine in East Africa and then the horrific murder of 76 persons in Norway. It’s heartbreaking enough for humans, but we can never imagine how these events must break the heart of God….
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