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Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir. Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to [...]

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The New York Times recently published this article: Megachurches Add Local Economy to Their Mission. It documents an interesting trend. Megachurches are commonly accused of teaching a “health and prosperity” gospel just to gather a crowd and, certainly, some do.
But a number of megachurches are taking steps to help improve their local economy through development [...]

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Whether it’s a movie star like Will Smith or the pastor of a church, what do you say when someone prominent says that Scientology (or some other cult for that matter) is “just like the Bible”?
First, let’s analyze something that’s true of all cults. Coming years after the canon of scripture was closed and trying [...]

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By Dr. Phil Corr (c) 2007
In my previous post I relayed Dr. Roger Olson’s perspective on Jonathan Edwards’ contributions to the history of doctrine. In this post I am going to share from George M. Marsden’s excellent biography, “Jonathan Edwards: A Life.”
Published in 2003 (the three hundredth anniversary of Edwards’ birth), Marsden does [...]

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Here is a message received from a church planting movement related to a UCC “daughter” church in the Third World. While we in America have downgraded Thanksgiving to another day off, the refreshing pause before the years’ biggest shopping day, or another experiment in our hedonistic gorging, our brothers and sisters in Christ understand what [...]

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An interesting phenomenon has occurred across the United States in the mainline renewal movements except, it seems, in the case of the United Church of Christ.
That phenomenon is the Networking of Global Orthodoxy.
Anglicans, Presbyterians and Methodist renewal movements in the United States have found the tables turned on them.
Where once we were the “Mission Sending” [...]

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Editor’s Note: Dr. Phil Corr’s article reminds us that not just the UCC but American Evangelicalism as a whole owe an amazing debt to the theological work of Jonathan Edwards. His theology combined the profound Reformation emphasis on the majesty and sovereignty of God combined with the warm hearted passion for the salvation of sinners [...]

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Editor’s Note: This continues Rev. Dr. Phil Corr’s contributions on the Life of Jonathan Edwards, America’s first theologian and - by many estimates - still the best. As people in the United Church of Christ discern their future, it may be wise to return to one of the UCC’s unheralded “firsts” - the theological thought [...]

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Editor’s Note: This continues Rev. Dr. Phil Corr’s contributions on the Life of Jonathan Edwards, America’s first theologian and - by many estimates - still the best. As people in the United Church of Christ discern their future, it may be wise to return to one of the UCC’s unheralded “firsts” - the theological thought [...]

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Bella: True Love Goes Beyond Romance is an amazing movie with a profound message on several levels. First it attempts to represent Latinos in a positive light. Most U.S. television portrays Latinos as gangsters or promiscuous “Latin Lovers”. Currently “Illegal Immigration” is a hot topic and Latinos are considered “illegals” until proven otherwise. Every [...]

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