Editor’s Note: This excerpt from the autobiography of a former UCC leader of the Calvin Synod Conference, Rt. Rev. John Butosi describes his personal “conversion” and is used with permission. It describes his passage from the Christian faith as his ancestral religion to his personal relationship with the Risen Savior Jesus Christ. In many ways, [...]
Entries from July 2008
From Folk Religion To Christian Faith
July 30th, 2008 · No Comments
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Surprised By Grace - How The Risen Christ Can Change The Mainline One Pastor At A Time
July 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Editor’s Note: Is there any genuine hope for the mainline? If so, in what might that hope consist? Yes. There is hope. But not the kind that comes by the continued compromise of truth and bureaucratic tinkering. So where might actual hope lie? That hope lies in the sovereign grace of God displayed in [...]
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Congregational Missionary Preaching, Part Two
July 15th, 2008 · No Comments
(c) 2008 Dr. Phil Corr
According to historical material, he manner of preaching by American Board Congregational missionaries had to do with both broad strategy and detailed information on how preaching was carried out on any given Sunday in locations in a number of countries around the world.
Understanding the context of various belief systems in the [...]
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Preaching by Early American Congregational Missionaries
July 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Editor’s note: With this article Dr. Phil Corr begins a series on the matter that passionately motivated the early American republic Congregational missionaries: proclamation of Christ and Him crucified. At the heart of the efforts of these individuals and the American Board and local churches they served was the declaration that Jesus [...]
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Covenant Children, Covenant Nurture, and Covenant Succession
July 9th, 2008 · No Comments
Editor’s Note: Though the following article is written by a Presbyterian minister, we, being Reformed, should find great affinities for what is written here. Likely though, we practice infant baptism out of tradition instead of conviction. Our allegiance to the Word of God demands that this change and that our church life be lived from [...]
Tags: Church Renewal · Family · Ministry and Outreach
Global Christianity’s Statistical Center of Gravity
July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Editor’s Note: With the recent conclusion of the GAFCON meeting in Jerusalem–with significant leadership led by African Anglican leaders–the following material might be of interest when it comes to the trajectory of the Christian Church when measured demographically through history.
Drawn from “Ockenga Connections” (A Ministry of the Ocknga Institute of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
(volume 11, number [...]
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Christian Release Time Basics - By Paul Humber
July 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Editor’s Note: In our last installment “How I Became Involved In Christian Release Time Ministry”, we published part of Mr. Humber’s story relating to how Christian Release Time ministries have grown in Philadelphia, PA and how they might grow where you are? How many UCC churches are just a short walk from a public school [...]
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