When I consider everything going on these days and everything there is for church leaders to do, it doesn’t feel like I have permission to rest. Furthermore, I feel that I don’t deserve to rest…
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City to City has compiled these reflections by Timothy Keller in the hopes that…
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Over the last days and weeks, I’ve seen post after post from Christian friends and pastors on social media about God being in control of the current pandemic. But I’ve also seen…
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Tim Keller shares how the story of Easter holds a vast hope for us in a year beleaguered by death.
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The notion of conversion is in itself a uniquely Christian idea. In much of Asia, non-Christian faiths typically focus more on…
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Post-Christian culture, post-Christian society, post-Christian ethics, post-Christian values are all subjects of a more-or-less worried Christian circle trying to grapple with…
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Langdon Gilkey was a twentieth-century American theologian and writer who encountered the truth of God’s grace in the most unlikely of places. As a young man, Gilkey…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the way pastors address the needs of congregants. In the midst of this upheaval, it can be difficult for leaders…
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“We never imagined churches in China and the U.S. would share common, realistic circumstances as quickly as we do today,” a Chinese church leader recently shared, as more than 60…
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If today’s troubles do not signal the beginning of the end, they certainly signal a new day for the world. In today’s global village, a virus…
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It is somewhat of an understatement to say that at this time we are in the “messy middle” of the COVID-19 pandemic—between what was and what is next. Church…
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Whenever you are in a time of stress, you should go to the Psalms. They have a medicine for everything, they depict every situation that a human being can be in, and they've addressed every emotion you could ever have. They also tell you how to process that emotion or about that situation before God.
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I lead a congregation in Rome that thrives on handshakes, cheek kisses, and physical contact. During our services, friends often embrace as they pray for one another.
Not anymore.
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King Street winds through Newtown like a river giving life to all sorts of communities and endeavours. People come to drink and gain life from the area. Newtown, for some, is…
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The traditional narrative of global missions has been churches from the Christianised (and now, ironically, post-Christian) West reaching the rest of the world. This has…
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I rejoice in (and am greatly helped by) the comprehensive awareness of our cultural situation that fills Tim Keller’s How to Reach the West Again. I have not…
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As a second-generation Hispanic urbanite, I feel the force of the challenges presented in How to Reach the West Again on a daily basis: in the home, with my neighbors, and even in the church…
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This discussion is premised on two basic ideas about African society.
The first is this: unlike Western society, which Tim Keller observes has rejected the idea of a “sacred order,” the African conception…
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