I believe in God, maker of Heaven and Earth
Sermon preached by Peter Harris at Westlake Church, Nyon, January 2001.
A Rocha International
Creation care and mission
An excerpt from a chapter written by Peter Harris for the book Down-To-Earth Christianity
LEAD Asia Environmental Guidelines and Best Practices
LEAD Asia staff, as part of the Body of Christ, believe that creation stewardship is an integral part of following Christ and that biblical faith is an important part of creation stewardship.
Reflections on the tsunami
I spent [the 2005] New Year’s Eve in Chennai, a city of 8 million where perhaps 200 were swept away by the tsunami. This terrible event shook me. The scale of human suffering, the raw power of nature, the lack of warning.… I was shaken as somebody born in India, as a Christian believing in a loving Sovereign God, and as an environmentalist, who spends his time talking about how wonderful nature is.
Tsunami tragedy: Where was God?
On 26 December 2004, ‘Tsunami’ replaced ‘Sushi’ as the best-known Japanese word in the world. Since that tragic day, there have appeared a number of articles and letters in newspapers all over the world questioning the credibility of faith in God in the light of such a terrible event. Some Christians add fuel to the cynic’s fire by making naive statements about ‘God’s will’, ‘God’s judgement’, ‘God’s end-times’, and so on. Even well-meaning expressions of gratitude to God for rescue and safety lead us to wonder what purpose is served by saving some but leaving so many thousands to die.
The A Rocha Blog
The Planetwise blog is A Rocha International’s blog. In English, we publish one or two new articles each month, which we then translate into other languages, as resources allow.
Joint Evangelical post-COP21 Statement
‘As leading evangelicals engaged in addressing the issues of poverty, creation care and climate change, we welcome the Paris Agreement signed on Saturday 12 December 2015. For the first time in history, the world has a global climate change deal where almost every nation on earth has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and has agreed to pursue efforts to keep global average temperature rise below 1.5 degrees C.’
Whitten Declaration: On the Care of Creation
‘As followers of Jesus Christ, committed to the full authority of the Scriptures and aware of the ways we have degraded creation, we believe that biblical faith is essential to the solution of our ecological problems.’
Marine Conservation in Genesis 1:20–31: An inductive bible study
Marine conservation in the Bible? While the Bible does not use those words directly, it does speak to this topic. Come explore what the Bible has to say.
The hidden things of God in the ocean
The ocean is experiencing tremendous threats from human activity. What is our response to these threats? We must root marine research and conservation in theology in order to live integrated lives and base our hope ultimately in God. Download Robert Sluka’s paper from the Journal of Ecotheology: Volume 2, Spring 2016