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Ed Setzer: What Can we Redeem? Missionaries Ask This Everyday…
BTW Christians in the US need to start thinking and acting like missionaries… Taiwan Video 2: Ancestor Worship and Taiwanese Christians from EdStetzer.com by Ed Stetzer One of the fundamental challenges with evangelistic cultural engagement is how far to go … Continue reading
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No One Wants To Live in Warzone!
This Wednesday we start the teaching and small group video with ken sande. My prayer is it will change heart, save friendships, marriages, and help our church become alive through biblical/Jesus-centered conflict resolution. Peacemaker’s Pledge A Commitment to Biblical Conflict … Continue reading
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the Shack
This book was written by a guy that is a part of an Alliance church. Strangely enough he has some good 3rd way orthodox theology expressed in prose. The problem is many Fundamentalist-evangelicals are on a witch hunt and want … Continue reading
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Final Green Clean Reminder!
Just a final reminder the Women of Mercy have a GREAT Green Clean event today at 1:00 PM. Bobbi, Betty, Staci & Anne have done the research, are ready to teach and have a good time. Stewardship involves not only … Continue reading
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AHHH HOW refreshing…
Some times you just need a spiritual slap… I would add I don’t agree with everything in Jame’s post…but in the Western post-modern culture we need to understand his main point and DO the work of the Kingdom of Love, … Continue reading
Peace-Making in Electronic Communication
BOY have I often blown it from time to time. In fact I have gotten into the habit just telling people I will not discuss certain stuff in email, text, blogs, etc. I am still learning the boundaries, but here … Continue reading
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What Kind of Friends do you have – I am a sinner and saint in process – SURPRISE!
One of the things that has to be said is that I need the grace of God daily as much as the next guy or gal. It’s wonderful that I have friends in my life who can speak the truth … Continue reading
Why we are “repenting of religion” at Mercy Church and still Evangelical…
I read these some years ago now. Frank Schaffer was the son of the 60s-80s evangelical “saint” Francis schaffer. He left evangelicalism for the reasons many of us are warry of e.g. the fundamentalist back-sliding that has gone on. He … Continue reading
Sabbatical continuing ed piece
Sabbatical continuing ed piece here are some books that we have recommended (read two) for the NWD pastor’s institute that I am attending in January. The first one was sourced in some leadership material I remember reading about 6 years … Continue reading
Thank you Dr. Boyd! Preaching it!
He’s one of the best closet Mennonite communicators out there. If you want to read some others (not in the closest as far as being anabaptist-evangelicals/mennonites): John Roth John Howard Yoder I will list some more. “True Believers” and the … Continue reading