Where do you turn in time of anxiety, fear, or uncertainty?  The world tends to turn to their accomplishments, their bank accounts, their talents, their vocations, their friends/family, their government, their (fill in the blank).  At face value, these sorts of things might seem to make sense unti...

Here's the latest for this week's round-up: 1) Ben Okiror and Cyprian Musoke, "Mubajje warns of bloodshed" in the New Vision newspaper (Uganda). The split among Uganda's Muslims continues to escalate. While controversial Mufti Sheikh Ramathan Mubajje seeks to remain in his leadership seat, his suppo...

As I prepare to serve Christ in Africa, I'm thankful to have discovered a remarkably relevant issue of the Evangelical Review of Theology (ERT). This week I'll focus on one more essay from this collection: "The Nature of the Crucified Christ in Word-Faith Teaching" by William P. Atkinson. As most of...

The local community newspaper listed eight foreclosures in the last week, all residences. That’s just in one week. I had a hard time reading that and not getting misty-eyed. Eight families, no home. At that rate, we’ll have 416 foreclosures in 2009 in my locality. Frankly, given the tren...

I was pondering this from A Gospel Primer for Christians yesterday. “According to Scripture, God deliberately designed the gospel in such a way as to strip me of pride and leave me without any grounds for boasting in myself whatsoever.  This is actually a wonderful mercy from God, for pride i...

I have written much about gospel lately, so much so that someone asked me the other day what I meant by gospel.  Ah yes, gospel. Yet another word from our Christian heritage that hasn't so much lost it's meaning as it's direction.  In other words, gospel is rightly defined as "good news", but ther...

Here's this week's round-up: 1) "Evangelists on the rise in Uganda" on France 24. You simply must watch this video on the growth of evangelicalism in Uganda. While the reporters obviously do not have a firm grasp on contemporary Protestantism, evangelicalism, and the charismatic movement in Africa, ...

Here's this week's round-up: 1) "How preachers fleece their poor flock," "Poor worshippers pay for preachers’ lavish lifestyles," "Regulate churches - religious leaders," and "Tame errant churches" in the Daily Nation newspaper (Kenya). This newspaper dedicated several articles in an issue from la...

Here's this week's round-up: 1) Eshban Kwesiga, "My visit to the Bahá’í Temple: The beauty and the rumours" in the Sunday Monitor newspaper (Uganda). This reporter recounts a recent visit to the Bahá’í temple in Uganda, the only one in all of Africa. The result is a brief introduction to the...

1) You abandon fellow Christians when they go through financial hardships.2) You think God wants you to have wealth.3) You think it's not Christian to owe people money or declare bankruptcy [it neither is nor isn't]. 4) You think your church doesn't need to help its neediest members.5) You are waiti...