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Category Archives: Mission
Closer to those Outside the Church
Watch a TV sitcom and see if that is how married couples are portrayed. My guess is that you will find just the opposite: the women treat their husbands like fools and the men don’t know their wives at all, and don’t want to. But that’s not just TV; it’s real life – your neighbors’ and coworkers’ lives. Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Church, Church Life, Encouragement, Faith, Family, Marriage and Family, Mission, Sermons, Theology
Tagged 1 Peter 2, 1 Peter 3:1, 1 Peter 3:14-15, 1 Peter 3:7, Bible, Christian community, Christian lifestyle, Christian submission, Christianity, Faith, God, James Bryan Smith - The Good and Beautiful Community, Jesus, Jesus Christ, John 14:1, Lifestyle evangelism
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Covenant Flyover
God kicked them out of “The Perfect Earth” program and exiled them from the Garden training center, but – and this is important – he did not give up on the plan. He still intends to have a perfect world stewarded by perfect people, ruling in his name with wisdom and love. Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Faith, Mission, Sermons, Truthfulness
Tagged Abrahamic covenant, all peoples blessed through Abraham, biblical theology, covenant, divine covenants, Genesis 1:28, Hebrews 8, Jeremiah 31:31-34, New Covenant, Noahic covenant, Sinaitic covenant, The Lord's Supper and covenant
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Divided We Fall: Paul, Romans, and a Fractured Faith
Do we feel about the divisions in today’s church (between black and white, old and young, female and male, left and right) the way Paul would, or do we regard division as something we’ll just have to live with? Continue reading
The Family Business: A Sermon from John 5
When bad things happen in our lives, we might think about God the way my parents thought about the police: Why isn’t he doing something? Someday, we’ll discover that he was. But, unlike the police, he wanted us to join him in his work. Continue reading
The Ascension and Spiritual Gifts (Eph. 4:7-16)
Who would have guessed? Those little pieces were important. And so are the gifts that God gave to each of us. You can say, “My gift is probably not important,” but Jesus gave that gift to you for a reason, and gave you to us for a reason. Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Church, Church Life, Encouragement, Faith, Mission, Sermons, Spiritual life, Theology
Tagged Bible, Christianity, Eph. 4:7-16, Faith, God, How to find your spiritual gift, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Saints - meaning of the word, Spiritual Gifts, The Ascension
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Submission Is for the Mission
The biblical context makes it clear that wives are not the only ones instructed to submit. This submission cannot be about male superiority since three of the four times Peter instructs people to submit, men are the ones submitting. Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Church, Family, Marriage and Family, Mission, relationships, Sermons, Worldview and Culture
Tagged 1 Peter 3:1, 1 Peter 3:7, 3-D pictures, Biblical teaching on submission, Christian marriage, Christian Mission, marriage, Revised Common Lectionary, Spousal abuse in the church, Win your husband to Christ
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Submission Is for the Mission
The biblical context makes it clear that wives are not the only ones instructed to submit. This submission cannot be about male superiority since three of the four times Peter instructs people to submit, men are the ones submitting. Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Church, Marriage and Family, Mission, Sermons, Worldview and Culture
Tagged 1 Peter 3:1-7, 1 Peter 3:7, 3-D pictures, Bible, Biblical teaching on submission, Christian marriage, Christian Mission, Christianity, Faith, marriage, Revised Common Lectionary, Spousal abuse in the church, submission, Win your husband to Christ
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Your Mission, Should You Decide to Accept It
But our mission is more complicated than just bringing news about God to people who have never heard it. We are bringing news about God to people who have misheard it. They think they already know about “God and those Christians.” Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Church, Church Life, Mission, Sermons
Tagged 1 Peter 2:9-10, anti-Christian sentiment, Bible, Christian Mission, Christian submission, Christianity, consciousness of God, Faith, God, Good deeds, identity in Christ, Jesus, role of desire in spiritual formation, slavery in the New Testament
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The In-Betweeners
They live in that strange land between the already and the not yet, between what is and what should be. The pressure here is like that of gravity. Often it goes unnoticed, but sometimes it slams you to the ground. Continue reading
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