Archive for the 'Missions' Category
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Jeff Fuller of the Reformed Evangelist blog knew he possessed two things anyone in ministry would love to have at the same time: seekers hungry for the Gospel and many people willing to help get it to them. All he had to do was find a way to bring those two together. In Jeff’s case, [...]
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Saturday, February 10th, 2007
The Student Missions Fellowship will sponsor the 2007 Missions Conference at Westminster Theological Seminary all next week (February 12-16). Theme this year is “Becoming servants of Theology and Training to the Global Church.” Find all details here.
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
I have this love/hate relationship with the Reformation21 blog…have you noticed? Sometimes it infuriates me…and then it turns right around and challenges me in ways that deeply move me toward Christ and his Cross.
Very often, the latter occurs through the musings of Rev. Philip Ryken, senior minister of Tenth Presbyterian Church in center city (never [...]
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Sunday, January 21st, 2007
As part of my involvement with the new Conn-versation team blog dedicated to the life and legacy of missional visionary Harvie Conn, I have been completing my reading of his magnum opus, Eternal Word and Changing Worlds: Anthropology, Theology, and Missions in Trialogue. The final two chapters, on theologizing and theological education from a missional [...]
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Monday, November 13th, 2006
It is now going on two weeks since the Emerging Church Forum sponsored by the Student Association of Westminster Theological Seminary. One of our hopes in putting on that conference was to stimulate thinking and dialog not only between Reformed seminarians and emerging church folk but also within each of those two circles. It was [...]
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Sunday, November 12th, 2006
The second Sunday of November is designated by many churches as the “International Day of Prayer and Remembrance for the Persecuted Church.” Tonight I will be attending a prayer meeting for our persecuted brothers and sisters across the globe at Maple Glen Church near our home. More information on the persecuted church can be found [...]
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
Drew Parlee, a recent Westminster Theological Seminary graduate whi is now teaching seminary in Serbia has seven students who cannot afford Greek New Testaments of their own. If you have a spare you are no longer using and can get it to me soon, I will make sure it gets to his students.
Thanks!
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Sunday, October 8th, 2006
Note: The following is a rather long post, but Karyn and I humbly request that all of those who care about us and what the Lord might have for us to do in his service take the time to read it through. Bless you, our dear friends!
If I made an FAQ of things people ask [...]
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Thursday, October 5th, 2006
In evangelical Christianity today we argue and debate and postulate and publish ad nauseum about the best ways to “reach” our culture and fulfill the Great Commission. The recent news coverage of the tragic school shooting in the Amish community of Lancaster, PA, made me aware that perhaps those folks have hit on a methodology [...]
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Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
At a special colloquium entitled “Biblical Matters: Biblical Reflections on ‘Going Global’” held this morning, James W. Skillen and Carl F. Ellis, Jr., each delivered impassioned pleas that the Church of Jesus Christ needs to be aware of and speak into all of life. The meeting at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia was sponsored by [...]
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