A Muslim's Impression of a Contemporary Church

Recently, I was delighted to hear, from a Muslim friend of mine, that he took the initiative to visit a Church, near where he lives.

His impression was that the church was dark, and looked like a nightclub - and he commented that he didn't really hear about Jesus there. The message, he said, was instead all about, how to feel good about yourself.

"I don't need to hear how to feel good about myself - I wanted to hear about Jesus - from the Bible," he said.

My Muslim friend gave church a go - and his conclusion was that if it's Jesus he wants to hear about from the Bible, church probably isn't the place for him to go.

May we take that as a reminder to resolve, like Paul, to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

"The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but to us which are saved, it is the power of God." The Gospel message is for the saved, not only for the unsaved. The message that saved us, is the same message that will keep us.

A Muslim's Impression of a Contemporary Church

Recently, I was delighted to hear, from a Muslim friend of mine, that he took the initiative to visit a Church, near where he lives.

His impression was that the church was dark, and looked like a nightclub - and he commented that he didn't really hear about Jesus there. The message, he said, was instead all about, how to feel good about yourself.

"I don't need to hear how to feel good about myself - I wanted to hear about Jesus - from the Bible," he said.

My Muslim friend gave church a go - and his conclusion was that if it's Jesus he wants to hear about from the Bible, church probably isn't the place for him to go.

May we take that as a reminder to resolve, like Paul, to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

"The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but to us which are saved, it is the power of God." The Gospel message is for the saved, not only for the unsaved. The message that saved us, is the same message that will keep us.

Announcing Cebuano and Tagalog Go Bible

I was thrilled to learn today that Go Bible is now available in Cebuano as well as Tagalog.

Go Bible is a Free Bible viewer application for Java mobile phones, developed by Dr Jolon Faichney PhD, with some help from friends who made versions in other languages.

Features include:

• Christ's Words in red
• SMS scriptures
  
• Bookmarks
• History
• Coloured themes
• Fast search

The Cebuano language, also known as Sugboanon, Bisaya, Visayan or Binisayâ, is spoken by 20million people. Several indigenous groups of Mindanao might also prefer to read Cebuano before Tagalog. Mobile phones are popular with the youth.

Download Go Bible for free: Cebuano or Tagalog

"For the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ and the furtherance of His Kingdom."

Announcing Cebuano and Tagalog Go Bible

I was thrilled to learn today that Go Bible is now available in Cebuano as well as Tagalog.

Go Bible is a Free Bible viewer application for Java mobile phones, developed by Dr Jolon Faichney PhD, with some help from friends who made versions in other languages.

Features include:

• Christ's Words in red
• SMS scriptures
  
• Bookmarks
• History
• Coloured themes
• Fast search

The Cebuano language, also known as Sugboanon, Bisaya, Visayan or Binisayâ, is spoken by 20million people. Several indigenous groups of Mindanao might also prefer to read Cebuano before Tagalog. Mobile phones are popular with the youth.

Download Go Bible for free: Cebuano or Tagalog

"For the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ and the furtherance of His Kingdom."

Kathryn Khulman

"The entire Bible is a revelation of the person of Jesus Christ - you may never have thought of it that way."

- Kathryn Khulman

Kathryn Khulman

"The entire Bible is a revelation of the person of Jesus Christ - you may never have thought of it that way."

- Kathryn Khulman

The Epitaph on Wilberforce's Statue

A statue to the memory of Wilberforce was erected in Westminster Abbey in 1840, bearing the epitaph:

"To the memory of William Wilberforce (born in Hull, August 24th 1759, died in London, July 29th 1833); for nearly half a century a member of the House of Commons, and, for six parliaments during that period, one of the two representatives for Yorkshire. In an age and country fertile in great and good men, he was among the foremost of those who fixed the character of their times; because to high and various talents, to warm benevolence, and to universal candour, he added the abiding eloquence of a Christian life. Eminent as he was in every department of public labour, and a leader in every work of charity, whether to relieve the temporal or the spiritual wants of his fellow-men, his name will ever be specially identified with those exertions which, by the blessing of God, removed from England the guilt of the African slave trade, and prepared the way for the abolition of slavery in every colony of the empire: in the prosecution of these objects he relied, not in vain, on God; but in the progress he was called to endure great obloquy and great opposition: he outlived, however, all enmity; and in the evening of his days, withdrew from public life and public observation to the bosom of his family. Yet he died not unnoticed or forgotten by his country: the Peers and Commons of England, with the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker at their head, in solemn procession from their respective houses, carried him to his fitting place among the mighty dead around, here to repose: till, through the merits of Jesus Christ, his only redeemer and saviour, (whom, in his life and in his writings he had desired to glorify,) he shall rise in the resurrection of the just."