Last week in Training Wednesdays we looked at an often neglected but hugely important category for thinking about sanctification and the connection between the gospel and godliness – adoption. “What is a Christian? The question can be answered in many ways, but the richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father. You sum up the whole of New Testament teaching in a single…
Read MoreSwim-cycle-run for the training centre
On 4th June a small team from Emmanuel Wimbledon are doing the Blenheim Triathlon – Graham & Lucy Smith, Pip Fox, and (Pst.) Robin and Ursula Weekes – hoping to raise money for the iServe Africa Training Centre Project. Please do consider sponsoring Team Emmanuel. You can sponsor online securely through Stewardship Give.Net or in Kenya via M-Pesa Paybill 939400 (account: ‘TCP run’). Thanks Team! #AnotherStepCloser iServe Africa Webmaster
Read MoreIndia, Cleansing, Biblical Theology and Listening
Another very full Wednesday. Thanks for the second year apprentices keeping going and engaging with it all and to our different facilitators including guest Dr Kevin Oberlin. Thanks and praise most of all to our great God and Saviour who cleansed us once and for all by his own blood. Here are some connected links and resources from the day: On India, Hinduism and thinking about other religions Hofstede analysis of…
Read MoreCrazy Busy?
Reviewed by iServe Africa apprentice Peter Muturi: You have obviously heard this phrase a countless times – “I am busy” – and I can almost bet you have used it too as a defense mechanism to discourage addition of new tasks. I am guilty of that too, as a matter of fact I have at times fell for the proud thought that I may be more busy than most people…
Read MoreThe Law, the lost and Leviticus
A very rich day of training on Wednesday. Many thanks to our teachers. On the place of the Law in the Christian life (Kip Chelashaw) On Islam: The Qur’an and The Hadith Answering Muslims Answering Islam How does Christianity ‘subversively fulfil’ Islam (Chris Flint) On Leviticus: A bloody religion (Thabiti Anyabwile) David Field on Leviticus (including the Leviticus Alphabet) iServe Africa Webmaster
Read MoreAddressing the hole in our holiness
‘The great Puritans were as humble-minded and warm-hearted as they were clear-headed, as fully-orientated to people as they were to Scripture, and as passionate for peace as they were for truth. They would certainly have diagnosed today’s fixated Christian intellectualists as spiritually-stunted, not in their zeal for the form of sound words but in their lack of zeal for anything else.’ (J. I. Packer, Themelios, 1996) It would be a…
Read MoreEnjoy your prayer life
One of the books kindly provided to us by our friends at 10ofthose, required reading for iServe Africa apprentices, reviewed here by Daphne Kabeberi: As the title suggests, “Enjoy your prayer life” encourages Christians to pray and teaches succinctly on how Christian prayer works. It seems chiefly aimed at those for whom prayer has been a struggle. It’s written to help the reader understand that prayer should be a natural…
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