Tepat bila dikatakan, masih bersemi kesan mendalam tentang John Sung di hati umat Kristen di Asia, istimewa di Indonesia ini. Hidupnya memang luar biasa ! Penuh pergumulan saat pembentukan pribadinya untuk dapat menjadi suatu pribadi yang menjadi berkat. Dengan sengaja dan atas perhitungan yang matang ia mengorbankan kesempatan-kesempatan luar biasa untuk dapat menjadi terhormat, terkenal dan k…
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He was an industrialist. An economist. A medical humanitarian. A media pioneer. An educator. A moral reformer. A botanist. And a Christian missionary. And he did more for the transformation of the Indian subcontinent in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries than any other individual before or since. Many know of William Carey. Some know about the specifics of his work and ministry. But few und…
We rarely think about the way languages work because communicating in our native tongue comes so naturally to us. The Bible was written in ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek-languages no modern reader can claim to have a native understanding of. A better understanding of how language works should help us understand the Bible better as we seek to discern the original intent and meaning of each b…
The Bible was not written and received in a historical vacuum-in fact, the social and historical context of the Bible illuminates key understandings that may have been otherwise missed. Biblical scholars use many different approaches to uncover this context, each engaging various aspects of the social and historical world of the Bible-from religious ritual to scribal practice to historical even…
The outstanding preaching ministry of Thomas Manton (1620-77) was exercised first at Stoke Newington from 1644, then from 1656 in one of the leading Puritan churches in London, St Paul's, Covent Garden. The extent of his pulpit labours is shown by the fact that the twenty-two volumes of the standard 19th century edition of his works consist almost entirely of sermons. The present volume contain…