Preaching
Preparedness, passion and preaching the good news in Fiji
“Standing from up there and preaching, it takes courage to preach something about God. And you’re preaching God’s word, it’s very important. And when I took the Langham training, it helped me a lot. The Langham training really taught me to dig deeply in the Bible passage, and then from text to sermon.” Veresa Colato…
Read MoreAn unfolding story of faithfulness in South Africa
Garfield Jacobs is a priest at St. Timothy’s Anglican Church in The Reeds, a suburb in outer Pretoria in South Africa. He’s been ministering there for over eight years. Now he is stepping into new additional responsibilities as a facilitator for Langham Preaching. Local church, but not only local challenges The members of St. Timothy’s…
Read More‘Escuelitas’ – The preaching circles of Latin America
Pastors are the backbone of the global church. They are biblical leaders who are at the centre of their communities and essential in the growth of new Christians. One of the core ministries of Langham Partnership is training pastors throughout the Majority World. We focus on training pastors who are shepherding God’s flock in places…
Read MoreRaising up local preaching facilitators in South Asia
“I often say, ‘Langham Preaching changed my life and saved my ministry’.” Kedo Peseyie grew up in a Christian home in the north of his South Asian country. He attended church and always considered himself a Christian, until he was confronted with explaining the gospel to someone else. Kedo shares, “When I was 18, I…
Read MoreThe growing preaching movement in Cambodia
“Churches live, grow and flourish by the Word of God, and they languish and die without it…whenever the Word of God is faithfully expounded and applied, congregations grow in both size and depth.” John Stott Each month Langham Preaching seminars are run around the world, equipping God’s people to better read, interpret and teach the…
Read MoreThe Word of God transforms through war and tragedy
“The crisis doesn’t cancel God’s calling and the war doesn’t cancel God’s calling. We are called to teach people God’s Word and to be present with them…We can leave the country at any moment, but we want to be here because God is present here, and we want the church to be present.” Anna Gnatyshyna…
Read MoreFemi Adeleye: Filling the pulpits of Africa with trained preachers
“My prayer and hope is that it’ll lead to the transformation of African nations” Femi Adeleye’s personal journey to his Christian faith began around high school as a teenager in Nigeria, reading biographies of young people committed and passionate about God and global mission. One of those books was Your Mind Matters written by John…
Read MoreTackling illiteracy to bring the Gospel to Kenya
“You’re 12, you’re old enough to share your testimony of salvation” – my father said to me out of the blue one Saturday evening, to my astonishment, as I had little personal faith at the time. After that conversation, I realised that if I was going to take faith seriously and talk to people about…
Read MoreWorking to shepherd, serve and steward preaching around the world
The work of Preaching Director Paul Windsor International Program Director of Langham Preaching, Paul Windsor, first encountered Langham Partnership through the person of John Stott. At the age of 21, he attended an International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) conference in the USA where John preached on Romans Chapters 1 – 5 to Paul and…
Read MoreWord from the World: Why we need to read the Bible for ourselves
Some of us are content to rely on pastors or other “experts” to give us an understanding of the word of God rather than studying it ourselves. Others prefer to live only on “new revelations” of other people rather than studying the Bible daily. It is so easy to be misled if we are unwilling…
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