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What Do We Mean by Contextualisation?

28 May 2024 | DBrown

Every one of our churches are situated in a cultural context. This is partly local (the geographical context), partly national (the history of our country), and European (our post-modern culture). How do we work towards a better contextualization of our churches?

How the Early Christian Writers Strengthened the Faith and Debated Heretics and Heathen

20 Mar 2025 | RWerner

The early church was faced with communicating and explaining the gospel of the Crucified Messiah as Saviour of the World to a society with a very different worldview. The principle of St. Paul - "To the Jew first" - necessitated an apologetic in the context of the synagogue, and the second part, "and then to the Greek“, entailed gaining an understanding of the prevalent Greek and Roman religion and philosophy.

In Life and in Death: How the Testimony of the Early Church Transformed Their World

28 May 2024 | RWerner

The early church was faced with communicating and explaining the gospel of the Crucified Messiah as Saviour of the World to a society with a very different worldview. The principle of St. Paul - "To the Jew first" - necessitated an apologetic in the context of the synagogue, and the second part, "and then to the Greek“, entailed gaining an understanding of the prevalent Greek and Roman religion and philosophy.

From Jerusalem to Rome and Beyond: How the Early Christians Changed Their World

28 May 2024 | RWerner

The early church was faced with communicating and explaining the gospel of the Crucified Messiah as Saviour of the World to a society with a very different worldview. The principle of St. Paul - "To the Jew first" - necessitated an apologetic in the context of the synagogue, and the second part, "and then to the Greek“, entailed gaining an understanding of the prevalent Greek and Roman religion and philosophy.

Working Through Discouragement and Depression: Practical Help for the Struggling Leader

29 May 2024 | spoling

What do you do when life and leadership take an emotional, physical and spiritual toll? Burnout, discouragement and exhaustion are real dangers, but there are ways to protect and preserve your calling. This talk gives you real-life survival tools that will encourage you and lengthen the life of your ministry.

An Interview with James Tour

4 Nov 2024 | James Tour

James Tour is a Professor of Chemistry, Computer Science, and Materials Science and NanoEngineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas. In this ELF interview, Peter Imming and Alexander Fink, leaders of the ELF Scientists Network, speak with Professor Tour about his life as a Christian academic and scientist–how he has been bold about his faith in his career, the challenges he's faced, and advice he has for other Christian academics and scientists.

Collective Trauma and Narrative

28 May 2024 | SAndjelic

What is collective trauma? How do things like wars and natural catastrophes impact a whole community? In this talk, we explore what collective trauma is and how understanding it can help us support people in breaking the circle of violence and loyalty to a destructive community.

Enemies Personal and National: Praying the Hardest Psalms with Jesus

28 May 2024 | sjenkins

How should Christians approach imprecatory psalms? For many readers today, these psalms that call down evil against enemies come off as self-righteous and obsessed with vengeance and hatred toward others. How do they fit with Jesus' teaching to love our enemies and His instructions to announce the blessing of the Gospel to all through repentance and faith? In this talk, we examine some of the most difficult psalms, concerning personal enemies and nations that attack God’s people.

Genuinely Loving Your Neighbour

26 May 2024 | smcquoid

What does it mean to love our neighbour, and why is it important? Nothing can replace relationships that enable people to see the plausibility of our faith as a first step towards faith. In this talk, we examine how genuine and caring relationships are the key for evangelism in our secular world.

Caring for Ministry Spouses

27 May 2024 | KMiller

Tales of ministry burnout are sad and sobering. The stories of leaders who struggle with burnout often become well-known. However, an often-hidden area of ministry stress is spouse burnout. What do we do when the spouse of a ministry leader is struggling? What are the best practices for caring for ministry spouses? Every ministry family is different, but there is hope for those walking through a challenging season. There are guardrails that can be put in place to support and encourage every member of our ministry teams, including the spouses of our leaders.

Delegating Authority: Principles for Experienced Leaders

28 May 2024 | Ross Hendry

An integral part of being human and made in God’s image is to be stewards over creation. The idea of God creating us to be stewards reminds us that the Father is happy to delegate to us – indeed He rejoices in seeing us partner Him and take on the task of being fruitful in our work. The implication is that as image bearers we too should be willing to delegate; not just willing, but delight in seeing others flourish with the responsibility and objectives we give them.

How to Engage with Different Worldviews and Respond to Difficult Questions

27 May 2024 | AFink

Many Christians are very eager to share the good news and quote bible passages but then feel frustrated when the messages seem to fall flat. One reason might often be that we are using the gospel like an advertising flyer instead of an individual letter that should speak to a person’s life circumstances. Jesus usually starts from the person and shares the gospel differently with everyone. In this talk, we discover how we can understand people, think through their worldviews and life concepts, and communicate the gospel in an appropriate way.

Cultural Intelligence

28 May 2024 | JVenugopal

In our globalized world, we are increasingly rubbing shoulders with people from other cultures, ethnicities, and countries. Many business and ministry leaders used to take months to learn the culture of a country in order to engage effectively. Does working with others who have significant cultural differences require this kind of intensive learning?

Leader-to-Leader Interview—Prayer: A Dialogue with God

26 May 2024 | JRoot

Jesus taught His disciples to pray. This would indicate that prayer, at least in part, is a learned discipline. To the degree that any human is engaged with God, every feature of our soul is at play: the mind, the emotion, and the will. Prayer allows a believer to reach into the depths of himself and disclose to God what He already knows about us: our sins (in prayers of confession); our fears and sorrows (in prayers of lamentation); our joys and thanksgiving (in prayers of adoration and praise).

An ELF Interview with Terry Virgo

10 Dec 2024 | TVirgo

Terry Virgo is well-known to many as the founder of Newfrontiers, a worldwide association of some 3,000 churches in over 90 nations. In this ELF interview, Maurice Nightingale, leader of the ELF Church Life, Leadership, and Planting Networks, speaks with Terry about his own experience of church life, leadership, and planting. Terry shares the wisdom the Lord has given him through his years of experience and faithful ministry.