Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11186. Witnessing across cultures has become an everyday reality for a great many Christians who once assumed evangelism simply meant speaking to people who shared their own language, assumptions, and religious background. Migration, international friendships, workplaces filled with colleagues from every continent, and simple neighbourly proximity in modern cities mean witnessing across cultures is…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11185. Praying for family who do not yet know Christ is one of the most persistent forms of intercession many Christians ever practise, sometimes stretching across decades with seemingly little visible change. I have sat with parents who have prayed for a wandering adult child for twenty years, and with adult children who have…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11184. Witnessing to family is, in my experience, one of the hardest forms of evangelism a Christian ever attempts, harder in many ways than speaking to a stranger. Your family already knows you, warts and all, from childhood tantrums to teenage moods to whatever version of yourself existed before you came to faith, and…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11183. Witnessing to colleagues is one of those tasks nearly every working Christian knows they should be doing and nearly every working Christian finds genuinely difficult to actually start. The office, the shop floor, the ward, the site, all carry their own unwritten rules about which subjects are safe and which are not, and…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11182. Welcoming visitors well is one of those quiet ministries that never makes it onto a church’s strategic plan yet shapes, more than almost anything else, whether a nervous first time guest ever comes back for a second Sunday. I have watched a genuinely biblical, gospel centred sermon get undone by a cold, cliquey…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11181. Biblical hospitality is frequently reduced, in our minds, to a spiritual gift possessed by a few naturally house-proud believers who enjoy entertaining. Scripture presents something considerably broader and more demanding than that. Peter instructs the whole church plainly, without qualification for personality type: “Show hospitality to one another without grumbling” (1 Peter 4:9)….
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11180. Loving our friends well does not happen automatically simply because we enjoy their company. Enjoyment is a fine starting point, but Scripture calls us to something more deliberate and more costly than pleasant association. Jesus tells his disciples plainly, “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you”…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10141. Standing with Israel is not, for me, a matter of political preference. It is a conviction that rests on the promises of God. I first published this counter-statement on 2 August 2025, in response to statements from Baptists Together, BMS World Mission and the Baptist Union of Wales which, in my judgement, mischaracterised…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 09008. How often should we take communion? It is a question I am asked surprisingly often, usually by someone who has moved from a church that observed the Lord’s Supper every week to one that observes it monthly, or the other way round. Some Catholic and Orthodox congregations celebrate the Eucharist daily. Some Protestant…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 07031. Hardness of heart rarely arrives in a single moment. Most people do not wake up one morning settled in unbelief. What Scripture describes, and what any pastor sees, is a slow process, largely unnoticed by the person going through it, in which each refusal makes the next one easier. Understanding how it works…