Faith
A language with 55,000 speakers just got a new New Testament. It took 89 years.A language with 55,000 speakers just got a new New Testament. It took 89 years.
12 October 2026 · 2 min read
Faith
Bible teaching, formation and theology made readable — including apologetics written for readers in their twenties rather than for a seminary common room.
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Why we stopped, and why we are back
Eighteen issues, a new baby, a format that stopped working, and a website taken from us. What happened to 5Talents in 2014 — and what returns in January.
This is the Camp that God Built
Jenny Svetec on Numbers 5, a Hebrew word that means to move in permanently rather than rent, and what was actually waiting for the people who got sent outside.
Every job in a king’s palace has a match in the church
Soldiers, watchmen, messengers, potters, musicians, gardeners, administrators. A theology lecturer runs the whole staff list and asks who you are on it.
“I just came to tell you one thing”
A conversation with God on a wet afternoon, in verse, with the scripture He keeps answering in.
Crossing the Bandra–Worli sea link, I could not see the other end
Five and a half kilometres of cable, thirty thousand vehicles a day, and no way to see where it finishes. A short essay on faith.
Every Christian has both natural talents and spiritual gifts
One comes to you at birth and is developed over a life. The other is given by the Spirit for the sake of other people. Knowing which is which changes what you do with them.
An empty lampstand looks exactly like a full one until the room goes dark
God gave Moses the dimensions of a tent and specified the oil for its lamps. Three thousand years later the question the tent was asking is still the only one that matters: where does your light come from?
I prayed for wisdom to win a Sunday school prize, then prayed a whole week that the coin would land my way
It did, and he thought he had worked out how prayer functions. It took him considerably longer to notice what Solomon had actually been given, and by whom.
The only bowing down I do to the tree in our house is to water the thing so it does not catch fire
Four objections to celebrating Christmas, taken seriously and answered one at a time, by a pastor who remembers a silver tree with a colour wheel and is buying a fake one this year.
Zacharias had believed the promises for forty years and had quietly written himself out of them
The Christmas chapters are usually read as pageantry. Read as a description of how God moves, they are about who gets called in, and the answer is not a professional cast.
We cannot see faith, but we see everything because of it
The woman on the corner who feeds her children first and sleeps hungry. The student who sits an exam she has not read for and thinks she might just make it. If that is not faith, what is she living on?
A missionary was preaching, and I got up and ran out of the service
He knew exactly what God was saying to him, and he did not want it. Then came months of running, which is where he found the book of Jonah useful.
The prophetic word may depend more on the soil it lands in than on its own power
A prayer written through Luke 8, on the words God has spoken that have not happened yet, and the honest possibility that the delay is not his.
The welcome mat says Live, Love and Laugh Often, and it is quite worn out
Not a call to try harder at loving people. An argument that the love is already in you, and that being convinced you are loved is the thing that releases it.
The same day they fed five thousand people, they were terrified in a boat
Twelve men watched bread multiply in their own hands at lunchtime. By three in the morning they were rowing into a headwind and frightened out of their wits. Mark tells you exactly why.
We say freedom on the fifteenth of August and mostly mean permission
Flags, the anthem, the telecast from the Red Fort. Then a year in which a girl was surrounded outside a bar in Guwahati and an infant died in Punjab over two hundred rupees.
We named this magazine after a parable where the master hands out the money before anyone has earned it
Somebody has told you that you are good for nothing. Matthew 25 does not open with what the servants produced. It opens with what they were handed.