Wanted: Burdened Preachers

The story is told of a nervous young man who once came before a selection panel for the Methodist ministry. During the interview, this r...

Facebook and Me

As I commence 2017, Facebook is among the many blessings I am thanking God for. Let me explain. My journey on Facebook began a few year...

Why do missionaries take such embarrassing photos?

I flew into Freetown last week. As I was escorted from the arrivals gate I found a sea of humanity outside the airport calling out to ar...

The death of a pet

A few days ago I stood by my study window and saw our youngest daughter, Mwape, standing helplessly as she saw her pregnant dog, Chelsea...

The 2016 KBC pastoral internship programme

(...through the eyes of the interns themselves) The pastoral internship programme at Kabwata Baptist Church continues to be one of its mo...

Some common birds of India

"Look at the birds of the air..." (Jesus, in Matt 6:26) As my time in India draws to an end, I thought of sharing with you the ...

Let’s revive the lost art of Christian polemics

The tragedy on today’s ecclesiastical landscape is the number of heretics who are thriving inside evangelicalism. They are having a fiel...