My time in training for Christian ministry in study for a Master of Divinity at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, overlapped with Tim Keller, who has been a very able and respected pastor and au
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Click on picture/movie and listen as you read.
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Jesus is the Messiah and He is Lord.
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Canada was once a 'churched' culture. It no longer is that.
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Back to school shopping - sure? Back to church shopping - not so much.
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Who wrecked our church, our denomination, our plans? Why are we challenging what and how – we believe and do? Why don’t people come and get committed to what we believe and do?
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Whether we have ‘come strategies’ or ‘go strategies’ as local churches, we are to consider ourselves ‘sent’ (that is, in apostolic ministry) following the Saviour and with His apprentice-disc
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I was struck and then mused over some words in a review by Claudia FitzHerbert of the book: “Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China”, by Hilary Spurling.
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Reading, understanding and appreciating the symbols, art, language and cultural mores of others is vitally necessary in mission.
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The Modern Age led people to organize and analyze, and in this case to chlorophorm beauty and to pin it on white-board (complete with frame) and give it a Latin name (on the reverse side).
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How to share faith when one is among clans and tribes - and not mere 'individuals?'
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The effects of the Fall are reflected in the way people sin or show the ‘curse’ in their lives. This is reflected in at least three ways (cf. Genesis 3): You shall surely die.
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Can one local church possibly reach, reflect and respond to all the different kinds of people around it?
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If we were going to be missionaries, say in Kenya, we would take seriously our need of entering another land, other cultures (one or more of scores of tribes and clans and sub-cultures), learning t
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Pop culture - a great number of conversations intermingling, vying for attention.
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Whether we have a garden or an orchestra, we can appreciate the rich sights and smells or the wonderful sounds of music that emanate through such diversity - in the context of unity - from th
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