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In percentages, experts indicate that the “foreclosure crisis” in the United States affects less than 5% of the population. That’s a small number, but for those facing foreclosure, it’s a 100% of the population for that particular family.
Governmental “fixes” are supposedly coming.
The question is will they arrive “too little, too late”? And, in the end, [...]

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Editor’s Note: This is the third installment in a series on Congregational Missions. The pre-Christian worship of Hawaii or the Sandwich Islands was the “Kapu System” which in addition to a caste system had an extensive system of taboos. To break them was to be punished by death. In the providence of God, 6 [...]

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On the right hand column of the web page, under “Recent Entries” you’ll find a new link. Under the Recent Entries link that lets you visit ReformationUCC.org’s archives is a new link.
This links to articles around the web as displayed on ReformationUCC’s Google Reader Page.
There you’ll find articles we trust you’ll find informative, entertaining, edifying [...]

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Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in a series on Congregational Missions. From the beginning the postmillennial vision of Ameican Congregationalists lead them to promote the Good News of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth at great cost. May their efforts inspire us to undertake the work of Christ’s kingdom [...]

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Editor’s Note: The United Church of Christ is known for it’s bold attempts at ecumenism among the various branches of the reformation churches. What the heat of rhetoric could not achieve in Bucer’s day - a merger of the Lutheran and the Reformed - was achieved through the heat of pietism in the crucible of [...]

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Apartment Life Cares Teams are an interesting ministry more churches and apartment management firms should know about!
According to the Apartment Life, churches tend to focus their ministry on homeowners, not apartment dwellers. While outreach programs may target homes and subdivisions, apartment dwellers often go uncontacted by churches.
In response to this need, Apartment Life recruits teams [...]

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Editor’s Note: The Congregationalists whose offspring, in part, formed the United Church of Christ lead the United States at one time in their zeal for what was known then as “Foreign Missions”. While our understanding that the “nations” are as likely to be right in our own backyard instead of far away, we may no [...]

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One of the greatest tools of the Devil is despair. Pastors and Christian Leaders face this despair routinely. John Bunyan faced a deep depression for lengthy periods that only lifted briefly while he was preaching and then the dark cloud descended again.
For many of us, the malaise is not so severe. Instead of incapacitating gloom [...]

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