So, when a light wind sprang up from the south, thinking that they had found their opportunity, they weighed anchor and kept along the coast of Crete, close in shore. But shortly afterwards a hurricane came down on us off the land--a north-easter, as it is called. The ship was caught by it and was …
Month of Sundays: Sovereignty
They sent their disciples, with the Herodians, to say to him: “Teacher, we know that you are an honest man, and that you teach the way of God honestly, and are not afraid of any one; for you pay no regard to a man’s position. Tell us, then, what you think. Are we right in …
Taking Evangelicals on a "Wild Goose Chase"
That's what they're hoping to do at least: The Wild Goose Festival, an ongoing four-day revival camp in North Carolina featuring music, yoga, liberal talk and embracing of gays and lesbians, is facing heat from evangelicals who say it is aimed at selling gnostic beliefs to the youth. “Most Religious Left groups that advocated leftist …
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Book Review: Peoples of the New Testament World: An Illustrated Guide
One of the challenges of New Testament study at any level is simply putting ourselves--and the events and people depicted therein--into the world in which they actually happened and lived. The Greco-Roman and Jewish world at the turn of the first millennium has many features that are on their face unfamiliar to us, yet are …
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Have Pentecostals (and Others) Got the Idea of the Calling to Ministry Backwards?
In his interesting study as to why Church of England women ministers tend to be older than their male counterparts, the Ugley Vicar makes a very profound observation: But this then raises a question in my mind, which has actually been there for some time, as to whether we have really got it right when …
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Month of Sundays: Servanthood
No, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to take the first place among you, must be your slave; Just as the Son of Man came, not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. (Matthew 20:27-28) The disciples were …
Month of Sundays: Provision
And my God, out of the greatness of his wealth, will, in glory, fully satisfy your every need, through your union with Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:19) It was time to go home. We had experienced another good cruise in the Bahamas, but it was time to get back to the good old U.S.A. So we …
Christian Militants Don't Need to Bring Down the Country
Rep. Shelia Jackson-Lee misses the point: In an exchange with witness Patrick Dunleavy, the former deputy inspector of the criminal intelligence unit, New York Department of Correctional Services, Rep. Jackson Lee mentioned the case of a man who blew up an abortion clinic and proposed that this perhaps was an attempt to undermine U.S. law …
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Month of Sundays: Priority
After dismissing the crowds, he went up the hill by himself to pray; and, when evening fell, he was there alone. The boat was by this time some miles from shore, laboring in the waves, for the wind was against her. Three hours after midnight, however, Jesus came towards the disciples, walking on the water. …
Fruit of the Spirit: He Loves You and Me
Fruit of the Spirit He Loves You and Me (Holiday 12101, 1976) A great deal of the "Jesus Music" of the 1960's and 1970's was performed in coffee-houses. An innovative form of ministry, it broke with the "church" tradition (a breaking churches struggle with perpetuating until this day) and placed the gospel in a laid …
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