November 2009

Read >> PUBLISHER’S MEMO: The Next Generation: Leadership and Communicating the Gospel By Doug Birdsall World evangelization requires the cooperative efforts across generations. Read >> THEMED ARTICLES: Leading and Connecting with the Next Generation by Understanding Generational Differences By Graeme Codrington Generational theory suggests we seek to see the world through the eyes of other […]

By Leighton Ford June 2006 We are hearing a great deal these days about the “emerging Church”—though no one seems able to say exactly what is emerging. Perhaps that is because we are going through a huge seismic change. A friend suggested recently that the Church is entering a third era. The first was the […]

By Paul Nethercott July 2006 Necessities for Effectively Communicating the Gospel Through Art Common characteristics of those who are effective at communicating eternal truths in creative, artistic ways: 1. They have a genuine appreciation for and understanding of art. Most do not simply use art and artists as a tool to gather people. 2. They […]

By Kenny Joseph June 2006 Today there are many seminars and books on the “mysterious mystique of the peculiar Japanese people and their country.” I learned all about this during my fourteen days on the American President Line’s ship, the Wilson, while sailing from San Francisco, California, USA to Yokohama, Japan in April 1951. We […]

By Eric Célérier October / November 2009 In terms of size, the Internet is already very large. Let’s just take two figures: there are 1.5 billion Internet users with 300 million of them on Facebook. At the end of 2009 Facebook will probably be as big as the USA. The new generation is online!The number […]

AROUND THE WORLD: Global Media Outreach Reaches a Milestone For the first time, Global Media Outreach (GMO) saw over one million people indicate decisions for Jesus Christ in a single month. In June 2009, 1,030,581 people indicated either a first-time decision to follow Jesus or a decision to recommit their lives to Christ through one […]

By Jonathan Petersen June 2007 Wi-Fi is making limitless Internet access possible. The world is on the move. People can’t stand still. There are more than 600 million motor vehicles worldwide; global bicycle production in 2000 alone totaled 101 million. Over thirty thousand commercial airline flights occur every day in the United States alone, and […]

By Sterling Huston April 2006 The Internet is the fastest growing media form in the history of the world. Ten years ago there were only a few million users worldwide, mostly in developed Western nations; today, more than one billion people access the World Wide Web. Although it is estimated that the United States leads […]

By Reinier de Blois October / November 2009 Bible translation has always been painstaking, laborious work. It is not just the difficulty of the work itself; there are also the technical challenges translators face. In the old days each draft had to be typed manually—four or five times!—before the project was completed. And once the […]

By Carla Bowman October / November 2009 It is nightfall in Dulumpur, a miniature hamlet in tribal Jharkand, East India. Thousands of stars cling recklessly onto an ebony sky. The tribal welcome foot washing and the artful, ritually paced serving of the meal on giant leaves take place as if in slow motion. Below the […]

By Marguerite Evans September 2009 Personal renewal keeps us on track to run the race well with much fruit. To live in a place of personal renewal we first need to look at the issues of the heart which block renewal. We need to get rid of the things in the way of relationship and […]

October / November 2009 AFRICA: New Africa Regional Director Elected Filimao M. Chambo has been elected the new Africa regional director of the Church of the Nazarene. Chambo, a native of Mozambique and resident of South Africa, replaces Eugénio Duarte, who was recently elected general superintendent. Since 2007 he has been serving the Africa region […]

By Elke Werner October / November 2009 Time is running. It feels as if it was just yesterday that Germany was reunited as a country. But as of this year, 2009, it is already twenty years ago that the momentous event took place: the wall came down. For more than forty years our country had […]

By Jonathan Petersen June 2007 Zbible.mobi is ZondervanBibleSearch.com for small screens, allowing users to look up Bible verses and passages from anywhere. Glocal The world is flat, seamlessly integrating the local and the global (“glocal”). In his book Glocalization: How Followers of Jesus Engage a Flat World, Bob Roberts, Jr., says, “We must orientate ourselves […]