Partnership is the way forward
One of the core values of this ministry is that partnership is the way forward. This is simply to say that through working together we can accomplish more than were we to stay only in...
23 February, 2011
Discipleship – the best way forward
The great commission is to ‘go’ to ‘make disciples’ of people from all people groups on this planet (Matthew 28:18-20). Sometimes these two things (‘go’ and ‘make disciples’) are seen as the (a) ‘evangelism’ and...
14 February, 2011
Impossibilities do not exist
That impossibilities do not exist is one of the core values of this ministry. What this means is that the projects that this ministry undertakes will not be determined by what has or has not...
25 January, 2011
Why I seek your partnership in prayer (personal reflection)
- - - - - - - - - - - - Why I seek your partnership in prayer - - - - - - - - - - - - To share my heart...
23 January, 2011
What on earth is REVERSE culture shock? (personal reflection)
As I understand it, culture shock isn’t really a ‘shock’ like an electric shock. Rather it is that niggling ongoing adjustment to changes when there are a lot of them. Take for instance this morning. I...
17 January, 2011
Is the gospel a ‘product’?
In setting up this website I put a catch-phrase under the ministry’s name: Shining Lights.co - Helping the Church see afresh what a great ‘product‘ it has. It was suggested by some that the use...
11 January, 2011
Inspiration for Christmas
(Like a mini-message - this is what we included in our Christmas e-letter to friends and family this year. Its a bit long, but could encourage faith and hope :-) Why we celebrate the birth of...
18 December, 2010
The need for pre-evangelism, Part II
The world has changed, and in particular the way people think (as summarised in the previous blog on this topic by Dr David Geisler). For us, as Christian believers, this is effecting how we share...
11 December, 2010
Today we fly (a personal reflection)
(Pic: Jon, Ethan and friend Janelle - in a ‘playground’ helicopter) After about eight and a half years in Singapore, today we return to NZ for a new chapter in our lives. As I awake (miraculously...
01 December, 2010
The need for pre-evangelism, Part I.
One of the core values of this ministry is a recognition of the need for pre-evangelism. The next two blogs are going to be on this. In the first I here insert a summary of...
24 November, 2010