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Editor’s Note: Sadly Rev. John Thomas has called for a “Sacred Conversation on Race” to be held on Trinity Sunday. The only hope for the human community is to enter into union and communion with the Triune God exclusively through Jesus Christ. Why? Because the Holy Trinity - in the mysterious union of the [...]

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Editor’s Note: This is an open letter from Dr. Robert Gagnon of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, a PCUSA institution. The original may be found here. It responds to a dangerous new trend of punishing Blacks who speak out when they do not appreciate having their struggle against racism equated with with efforts to promote the [...]

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Editor’s Note: This article (c) 2008 by the U.S. Center for World Mission and is reprinted with permission of the Global Prayer Digest. To subscribe to this daily prayer update for unreached people groups, you may send an email to subscribe to: subscribe-brigada-pubs-globalprayerdiges@hub.xc.org
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On April 25th, 2008 the World Council of Churches in which the United Church of Christ and other mainline denominations are members called for the immediate release of results from Zimbabwe’s recent elections as a Chinese freighter attempted to unload a deadly cargo to perpetuate the dictator Mugabe’s oppressive regime.
But the outrage from the World [...]

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Editor’s Note: Is the hope for renewal in the mainline to be found in mimicking the latest megachurch gadgetry? As other articles note, church renewal is not dependent on becoming a “clone” of a larger church. As Dr. Horton notes, neither is renewal dependent on finding “Super Pastor”.
Never mind Paul’s exhortation [...]

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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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When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was [...]

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Luke 2: 1 - 20
The Christmas story must not be relegated to the status of a cute bedtime story for children… Though Luke’s account records an inauspicious story in the regions beyond the seats or world power either then or now, Luke’s narrative is the proclamation that God Himself is sending the Messiah of Israel. [...]

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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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Perhaps you’ve read the one liner “Shrimp anyone?” appended as a post script to one missive or another to serve as the final nail in the coffin for the doctrine of Biblical Authority. Why? The fact that the people of God eat shrimp with impunity is alleged to show that the Word of God is [...]

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