Posts Tagged ‘Langham Global Library’
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Resurrection Church Beirut – Situation Report
Hikmat Kashouh is Senior pastor of Resurrection Church, Beirut. He is also a graduated Langham Scholar and Author. The following article is taken from Langham Publishing blog: www.langhamliterature.org/blog What is the situation with us at the moment? A situation report is often used in military operations and uses non-emotional language with simple facts. Let me…
Read MoreAuthor Spotlight – Athena Gorospe
By Evelyn Reynolds, ScholarLeaders International From the Margins, for the Margins Fifteen years ago, Langham Scholar Athena Gorospe gave a devotional in which she called her audience – wealthy American Christians – to be downwardly mobile. That morning in Pasadena, she argued that they should recover “Jesus’s concern for the marginalised, the invisible people.” Athena…
Read MoreSociety for the Study of Theology – Engaging New Audiences
This month, Langham Publishing had the privilege of attending the annual conference of the Society for the Study of Theology. The Society exists to promote excellence in the study of Christian Theology by facilitating and shaping theological thought, conversation and community and is for anyone with graduate-level interest in theology. The conference attracts a…
Read MoreTransformed: Washing Syrian refugees’ feet in a Lebanon Church
In his book Following Jesus in Turbulent Times (published under Langham Global Library), graduated Langham Scholar Hikmat Kashouh shares how his church in the Lebanon follows Jesus by serving Syrian refugees. His book will inspire believers around the world to love, serve and disciple displaced people from Muslim backgrounds. Hikmat spoke to Langham Partnership UKI about…
Read MoreAuthor Spotlight – Hikmat Kashouh
Hikmat Kashouh is the senior pastor of Resurrection Church Beirut (previously Hadath Baptist Church), a vibrant and growing missional church located in the suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon. He is a Langham Scholar, gaining his PhD in Textual Criticism from the University of Birmingham, UK. Hikmat was previously the Academic Dean at Arab Baptist Theological Seminary, which…
Read MoreThe Japanese & Christianity
In the middle of old habits Mr Big Bell, a Japanese man, wrote, ‘My family worshipped at the Buddhist family altar, prayed at the Shinto god-shelf. For New Year it was the Shinto shrine, for funerals it was the Buddhist temple. From a young age I was sat down and recited Buddhist scriptures that I…
Read MoreAuthor Spotlight – Yohanna Katanacho
Langham Scholar, author and editor Yohanna Katanacho gives some background to his journey of faith and the story behind Praying Through the Psalms: I was born in Jerusalem, in June 1967, during the Arab–Israeli war known as the “Six-Day War”. My father risked his life to bring us home and despite the bomb that exploded next…
Read MoreErmias Mamo – Author Spotlight
Ermias Mamo – A Life Less Ordinary Ermias Guisha Mamo was born and raised in southern Ethiopia in a rural setting, the son of a farmer’s son. Ermias Mamo’s father, Mamo Guisha, spent his early adulthood as a village gang member who robbed people and persecuted and threatened early converts to Christianity in the community.…
Read MoreAuthor Spotlight – Rachel Rajagopal
Growing in Faith Rachel Rajagopal is a Singaporean Christian from a Hindu background. Chapel services at Paya Lebar Methodist School, helped Rachel to understand the message of the Gospel and at the age of 13 accepted Jesus as her saviour. Nearly two decades later, when she was part of a discipleship group with 11 others…
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