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Remember our missionaries and the mission
I have been on mission trips to a number of countries. I have been to the remote areas of South America witnessing to the Quechua Indians. On two different visits to Lebanon I went door to door to pass out Bibles in Shiite Muslim neighborhoods. Going to India last year [...]
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Siguiendo y Obedeciendo a Nuestro Dios
El ser salvos significa que Dios espera algo de nosotros al vivir en este mundo. Dios espera que le sigamos y que le obedezcamos toda nuestra vida. El problema que vemos hoy en día es que algunos de los seguidores y obreros de Cristo no están haciendo esto. La verdad [...]
Continue ReadingA war on women? Which women?
War has often been harder on women and children than on combatants. When the tides of battle wash over a populated area, women herding children will always be overrepresented in the crowd of refugees. Matthew 24:19 even singles out pregnant and nursing mothers as particularly unfortunate during bad times. Misfortune [...]
Continue ReadingLeaders and followers
Everybody has a head. Maybe not two kidneys or hands, maybe not a spleen or appendix but everyone has that center of knowing and doing that usually rests atop the shoulders. That’s why Paul’s description of Jesus as the head of the church in Colossians 1 and Ephesians 1 works [...]
Continue ReadingCP: A sacred 'how' for the Great Commission
April 22 is Cooperative Program Day in the Southern Baptist Convention. This is an excellent time to share with your congregation about how we work together through combining our financial resources. Let me share with you some of the personal involvement you have through the Cooperative Program. Over 100,000 evangelistic packets [...]
Continue ReadingWomen's health care and Logic 101
Maybe a few of us still learn logic in college. If so, you’ll recognize this: If all A is B and all B is C, then all A is C. Of course there were violations of this formula as in: All beagles have floppy ears and all beagles are dogs; [...]
Continue ReadingWe still need the Cooperative Program
Ever been in an older building where sections of it were impossible to heat or cool to a comfortable level? Many churches have areas that have been subdivided or added on to so that they irreparably alter the original HVAC scheme. Adding a wall here or a wing there sounds [...]
Continue ReadingThis Easter, stay with the gospel
Easter used to be one of the most attended worship days of all the holiday Sundays. In my observation over the last decade, there has been a marked decline in Easter worship attendance. Easter is sort of an inside ballgame event for Christians. Unless you are into bunny rabbits and [...]
Continue ReadingTHE CHURCH: Practicing Believer's Baptism
The sight of a large man sitting in a kiddie pool near the road caused quite a stir in the community. Cars were slowing down to take a look. Kids on bicycles stopped to watch. I was baptizing one of the first converts at a church plant in a heavily [...]
Continue ReadingNeutrality isn't often neutral
It’s not easy being Switzerland. A quick survey of the nation’s efforts to remain neutral during the wars of the 20th century shows deployments of up to 400,000 troops to guard their borders, interment of more than 100,000 soldiers and airmen from belligerent countries, and accidental and intentional border incursions [...]
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