Posts Tagged ‘Langham Preaching’
Why PhDs are what Majority World Christian leaders need
How God multiplies the impact of His faithful workers If someone asked you ‘What will create the most transformation in the Majority World church?’, would your first response be ‘Enable more people to get their PhD’? In the Majority World, the gospel is spreading far and wide, but the challenge has long been enabling Christians…
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…
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Femi 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 More‘God has placed me with a purpose’
Scholar Mikael* on the importance of teaching and writing in challenging contexts Mikael, previous Langham Scholar and current Langham Preaching Movement Coordinator in South Asia, is committed to seeing more people know and love Jesus. As well as being an author and speaker, he is also the director of a local theological college. The college…
Read MoreGrowing the Church through a PhD in understanding the Holy Spirit
Eli Ezung grew up in the north of South Asia, alongside her family, including four siblings. She has spent the last three years in the UK as a Langham Scholar, studying for her PhD in World Christianity, at the University of Edinburgh. Eli’s focus is on the area of Pneumatology, which is the study of…
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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