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  1. 'Call me Abdi'

    ... 27, 2010   “I’ll tell you my story, but you can’t use my name. Call me Abdi*.” ... were removed. He found himself in charge of the nursery with 50 babies. He noted that the nursery was large enough to hold 200 African ...

    dgbennett - 05/15/2012 - 11:18am - 0 comments

  2. Mission Myths: Is Mission Just a Budget to Pay?

    ... of the world. Therefore, shouldn’t your heart and my heart be burdened with what caused our Savior to bleed? Lost souls. That is what missions ...

    dgbennett - 05/22/2012 - 11:44am - 0 comments

  3. No room for "all nations"

    ... Jesus quoted Isaiah 56:7 as the reason for His actions: “ My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations. ” ... “ a den of thieves ” (a phrase from Jeremiah 7:11).  With the Gentiles effectively squeezed out, the Temple could no longer serve as ...

    gpottenger - 04/02/2012 - 4:40am - 0 comments

  4. Review: 'With Cords of Love: A Wesleyan Response to Religious Pluralism'

    ... 2, 2010 Ours is a global village. With hundreds of religions laying claim to truth, what should be the Christian ... He insists (pp. 83-84): “If the gospel is all about my salvation apart from God’s plan to unite all things in heaven and earth ...

    dgbennett - 04/27/2012 - 11:45am - 0 comments

  5. Missionary Profile: Bev and Howie Shute

    dgbennett - 04/23/2012 - 8:47am - 0 comments

  6. Faced with suffering: Who is my Neighbor?

    ... became a total “outsider” who never fully identified with either Jew or Gentile. His conviction that Jesus was the Messiah who ... to be outmaneuvered by Jesus, the scholar asks, “Who is my neighbor?” The scholar, trained to understand the law and its ethical ...

    dgbennett - 04/27/2012 - 12:12pm - 0 comments

  7. Mission declaration from the cross?

    ... Friday, March 16, 2012   “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”    This question -- ... something else?     Bible scholars plead with us to read Bible verses in their larger context. Let’s do that with th ...

    gpottenger - 03/16/2012 - 5:43am - 0 comments

  8. Is mission first local and then global, or all at once?

    ... upon His followers. Then, He said to them, “You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the ... future, we can go to the ends of the earth. The problem with that interpretation is that it doesn’t square with what the early Chur ...

    gpottenger - 04/25/2012 - 12:27pm - 1 comment

  9. Q&A: What is biblical social justice?

    ... compassion or evangelism?" This week, we talk with James Casler, director of the J.V. Morsch Center for Social ... ministry as part of achieving social justice. When I ask my students how they define “compassionate ministry,” they typically ...

    mfetting - 03/13/2012 - 9:18am - 0 comments

  10. Under His Sky: Belinda Allder's story

    ... February 6, 2012 We are talking with Belinda, or “BJ,” Allder, a Nazarene missionary from Sydney, ... do stuff around chemo dates. Then, basically the last month, my body’s just taken a turn around and they’ve said, “No more.” ...

    gpottenger - 02/15/2012 - 1:33pm - 0 comments

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