June 25, 2008
by Helen Turnbull Goody
26 June 2008
The National Evangelical Church of Beirut has deep roots in Lebanon, first established in 1848 and later creating the first evangelical Arabic-speaking congregation in the Middle East. It has a long history of serving as a center for publishing and other communication among Arab Christians. In June, the tradition of [...]
June 25, 2008
Towards a Better Understanding of the Old Testament (Beirut: Clarion Publishing House, 2008).
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“I have known the author since his childhood playing with our children and we loved him like them. He is now a colleague in the ministry; dedicating his life to serve Christ, the church, and people. I read the manuscript of this [...]
April 1, 2008
The success of the Africa Bible Commentary has stimulated plans to create similar single-volume commentaries by local scholars for other Majority World regions. Similar projects are already in process for Asia and the Middle East. This year, discussion was underway in Buenos Aires for development of the Contemporary Biblical Commentary (In Spanish: Comentário Bíblico [...]
February 25, 2008
by Andrew & Rosemary Williamson, missionaries with Australian Presbyterian Church in Vanuatu. Posted 25 Feb 2008
Thanks for your prayers and for passing the word to others to pray. The Lord Jesus greatly blessed our workshop. The sessions were well received, but most importantly, the participants’ faith and courage for work on the Vanuatu Bible [...]
January 31, 2008
by Langham Partnership International Director Chris Wright
There have been Arab believers since before the followers of Jesus were even called Christians (a nickname that was invented in Syria). They were there on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:10-11). And the Christian church has continued in the Middle East throughout the past two thousand years. Some [...]
January 31, 2008
by Chris Wright, International Director, Langham Partnership. Posted 31 Jan 2008
We all know that salvation is the central message of the Bible , but in the Global Christian Library series, it is the sixth book to be published. The series is published in the west by IVP in the UK and the USA . The [...]
December 22, 2007
By Rosemary Williamson, missionary with Australian Presbyterian Church in Vanuatu. Posted 22 Dec 2007
A team including Ps Sophia Silas from Malekula in Vanuatu and Dr Andrew and Rosemary Williamson, Missionaries with the Australian Presbyterian [...]
December 13, 2007
“God seems nearer to a people when he speaks their language.”
–Augustine of Hippo
On November 18, 2007, in Dar Es Salaam, WordAlive Publishers officially announced the launch of the Africa Bible Commentary Kiswahili, in the Tanzanian market. This celebration marks the first of many translations for the first-ever single volume Bible commentary written by [...]
November 8, 2007
Reflecting on the Kenyan Langham Preaching programme, Yusufu Turaki, a Nigerian pastor, theologian and contributor to the Africa Bible Commentary said, ‘I have been a pastor and professor for a great number of years but this is one of the most exciting things I have seen.’
Over the past 3 years the Kenyan preaching movement has [...]
October 1, 2007
Since its launch in 2006, the Africa Bible Commentary (ABC) the first-ever one-volume commentary written by Africans, for Africans, has sold 65,000 copies (12,000 in the West and 53,000 in Africa). This project has been seven years in the making, with more than $1 million raised to make this project a reality. Tens [...]