… my family and I were going through an extremely difficult season. My husband had lost his job. I was just beginning to recover from severe depression, and we were young parents raising a toddler. At the same time, we were serving as leaders in our home church.
For the past 10 years, City To City New York City has been leading the New York Project with the goal of helping plant 250 churches and train leaders across greater New York City. We are so incredibly grateful to God that as the project comes to an end, we accomplished our goals. God graciously gave us resilience to endure numerous trials, including both the global pandemic and the passing of our founder Tim Keller.
Lesslie Newbigin was a British missionary who went to India in the 1950s and returned home to retire some thirty years later. When he left, the “western church” in Europe and North America was still in a relationship to the culture which was often called “Christendom.”
Do you know that feeling? The one where if it isn’t one thing, it’s the next? Before you’ve even had time to process one battle, another one is already waiting for you. There have been times, especially this year—a year that has stretched me in more heart-wrenching ways than I thought possible—when I’ve wanted to tap God on the shoulder and say, “God, I know You’re the Creator of time … but some of us need a moment to catch our breath.”
Peter’s sermon on the day of Pentecost is known as the first sermon of the New Testament Church. And miraculously, on this day when the gospel was first preached by the church, it was preached in every language at once.
This Month's Featured Book
The meaning of Christmas can often be hidden, covered by the decorations, gift exchanges and seasonal parties that happen at this time every year. In this book, Tim Keller examines the hard edges of the biblical story of Christ’s birth and what it means for us today.
