The Sailors’ Friend
Before sailing around the shoreline of Holland's old Zuider Zee with my three sons last week, I packed a suitably nautical book in my kit called 'The Plimsoll Sensation', in case we got becalmed. The book had caught my…
Beyond Church walls
Not only in Stockholm and Amsterdam, but also in London, thousands of Christians have taken church out onto the streets over Pentecost with festive presentations of the message of Jesus. Totally independent of the events we reported over the…
Get the Spirit!
Christians in Amsterdam this year are grasping Pentecost as an occasion to reach out across cultural and religious borders, as they seek the welfare of the city. Under the motto 'Get the Spirit', they have initiated a nine-day…
Swedes come out for Jesus
Sweden doesn't usually make headlines for its spirituality. But on Saturday records were broken when 15,000 Christians formed the largest crowd ever to fill the Kungsträdgården (King's Garden) in the centre of Stockholm, the nation's capital, in a multi-cultural…
Shaping the future
Maybe it does sounds pretentious. But the calling of those who name Jesus as Lord is nothing less than to help shape the future. We are not simply to let the future happen, fatalistically shrugging our shoulders and…
