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Category Archives: Missiology
Love Is Our Mission: Pulpit and Paradigm
John Howard Yoder once wrote that the mission of God is to create a people who are both “pulpit and paradigm” of a new humanity. What does that mean? It means God’s mission is to create a people who both … Continue reading
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Love Is Our Mission: Textual Underpinnings
Some of the most familiar passages in our Bibles tell the story of our Missionary God. John 3:16, For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have … Continue reading
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The Gospel as a Caged Lion
The Word of God can take care of itself, and will do so if we preach it, and cease defending it. See you that lion. They have caged him for his preservation; shut him up behind iron bars to secure … Continue reading
Love First: Missional
What does God desire of us? What does He want from His people? In Scripture, we see that our God is a God of mission. He is a missionary God, sending His own Son into the world for our sake. … Continue reading
Posted in 2 Corinthians 5, Devotional, God, Gospel, Jesus, Kingdom Values, Love First, Love God, Love Others, Missiology, Scripture, Theology
Tagged Missional Living, Missionary God
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Hope Is Not Optimism
In a Rolling Stone interview years ago, American professor and scholar Cornel West made the following statement about optimism and pessimism: The categories of optimism and pessimism don’t exist for me. I’m a blues man. A blues man is a … Continue reading
Posted in Devotional, Eschatology, Faith, Hope, Kingdom Values, Missiology, Social Issues
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The Story: Deliverance
Deliverance – Exodus 12:13 The Bible is, at the heart, a story of deliverance. It’s the story of God’s people crying out from under the yoke of oppressive taskmasters. And it’s the story of a God who goes to great … Continue reading
Posted in Devotional, Faith, God, Kingdom Values, Missiology, Scripture, Theology
Tagged Bondage to sin, Exodus 12, Moses, Passover, Taskmasters
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The Story: Blessed
He emerges from the line of Shem, the son of Terah in the land of Ur. From among the people in the world, God selects one man, Abram, to receive a special call. Information about Abram’s life is scant prior … Continue reading
Posted in Devotional, Faith, God, Missiology, Scripture, The Story, Theology
Tagged Abram, Blessed, Blessed to be a blessing, Genesis 12
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Colossians 4
Reading for Thursday, Aug. 16: Colossians 4 Paul closes this chapter with some final remarks about the Christian life: “Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful,” (v2). For many of us, I suspect prayer is a posture of thanksgiving. … Continue reading
Posted in Blessings, Friends, Kingdom Values, Missiology, Project 3:45, Scripture
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Acts 17
Reading for Monday, April 30: Acts 17 Acts 17 gives us insight into Paul’s missionary strategy. As he passes through Thessalonica, Paul goes to the local synagogue for three consecutive Sabbaths to preach Jesus as the Messiah. “He reasoned with … Continue reading
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Quotes on Culture
Quotes on culture from Andy Crouch’s “Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling”: There is no such thing as “the Culture,” and any attempt to talk about “the Culture,” especially in terms of “transforming the Culture,” is misled and misleading. Real … Continue reading
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