Author: Jonathan Dodson

International Day of Prayer for North Korea

The Asia Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization just announced 25 June,the day that the Korean War broke out, as the international Day of Prayer for North Korea. Korean Christians are requesting assistance that all Christians around the world join them in prayer for salvation of 25 million North Koreans.

Note the date in your calendar and paste the following prayer needs:
a. Freedom of religion be granted in North Korea
b. North Korean defectors be recognized as refugees so that they will be guaranteed the freedom of residence, c. The divided Korean Peninsula be reunited by the Gospel.

Help Pass the Federal Marriage Protection Amendment

Join the grassroots movement to flood our senators offices with messages for the preservation of marriage between a man and a woman in support of the Senate vote on the Federal Marriage Protection Amendment on June 5 by going here

N. T. Wright on Engaging Culture

Check out this excerpt from N. T. Wright’s address to Seatle Pacific University. The full transcript is here and addresses the ubiquitous Da Vinci Code.

“The task of engaging the culture with the Christian gospel and so working to transform the world always includes three elements. First, we must speak truthfully about Jesus of Nazareth, and explain how it is what we discover who God is by looking at him. Second, we must do so in full engagement with the world of our own day, understanding its ebbs and flows, its fashions and follies, the places where it has got things gloriously right and the places where it has got things gloriously wrong. Third, we must be prepared to refute — that is, to give a reasoned rebuttal of, not simply to say we disagree with — popular misconceptions which leave people with muddled and misguided ideas about Jesus and the nature of Christian faith.”