By Evvy Campbell December 2010 Urbana 06 attendees had the opportunity to step into AIDS in Africa through an interactive exhibit in which they received the identity of someone in Africa together with headphones and an MP3-player to listen to that person’s life story. Progressing through rooms of a hut with dirt and hay on […]
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March 2007 “Does your church’s website communicate to outsiders as well as to church members?” asks a new web resource. A church site is the congregation’s “shop window” to its community. To fulfill this function well, it must be enticing, people-centered and easily understood by outsiders. Unfortunately, many churches are unsure how to achieve this […]
March 2007 “For in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one […]
By Evvy Campbell December 2010 For five days at the end of December 2006, 593 Urbana 06 delegates collectively focused on what it means to live missionally in a world pressed with the numbing reality of forty million people living with HIV/AIDS. Participants in “Mission through the Lens of AIDS,” an Urbana 06 residential track, […]
By Lon Allison Scripture speaks of witness in creation. As evangelicals, we must listen to what God is saying through it. Read >> THEMED ARTICLES: Environmentalism and the Gospel By Peter Harris and Barbara Mearns Christians have been given the command to care for God’s creation. We must be obedient to that command. Read >> […]
By Lon Allison Scripture speaks of witness in creation. As evangelicals, we must listen to what God is saying through it. Read >> THEMED ARTICLES: Environmentalism and the Gospel By Peter Harris and Barbara Mearns Christians have been given the command to care for God’s creation. We must be obedient to that command. Read >> […]
By Evvy Campbell As an HIV-positive person, Christopher Yuan shared how his past addiction and drug trafficking led to a three-year federal prison term, during which he was informed by a prison nurse that he had contracted HIV. Alone in his prison cell, he noticed a reference to Jeremiah 29:11 scrawled on the metal bunk […]
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By Bradley Coon April 2008 In the April 2007 issue of Lausanne World Pulse, I wrote an article entitled “One Hundred Years of Christian Growth.” The article used visual aids to compare the growth of Christianity both externally (with population growth) and internally (between various ecclesiastical blocs). These figures captured the monumental changes to the […]
By Debbie Farrar December 2010 The Apostle Paul used Roman roads and ships (the transportation technology) and papyri (the communication technology of the first-century Church) to aggressively deliver the gospel of Jesus Christ. Paul’s clarion call was to preach the gospel “by all possible means.” In the twenty-first century, five breakthrough innovations developed by secular, […]
By Debbie Farrar December 2010 Multinational and Multilingual. “…becoming all things to all men in order to save some…” (I Corinthians 9:22) When a student accesses the landing page of IBS, he or she finds the entire website can change from English to Spanish, to Chinese, to Arabic, to Vietnamese, and back to English in […]
By Debbie Farrar December 2010 Shared Technology, Resources, and Revenue. “…having everything in common…” (Acts 2:44) While there are as many as one hundred commercially available software packages for online education, most are designed for use by a single organization. Instead of one thousand organizations each purchasing, installing, and supporting their own system, IBS introduced […]
December 2010 AROUND THE WORLD: Billy Graham Radio Program Turns Sixty One of Christian radio’s most beloved and longest-running programs hit the airwaves across the United States sixty years ago. “The Hour of Decision” with evangelist Billy Graham has grown into one of the most widely distributed radio broadcasts in the world. Today it airs […]
