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Today (October 13, 2017) we celebrate the 109th Anniversary of the founding of the Church of the Nazarene. Happy Birthday, Nazarenes! Throughout this month we are also celebrating the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, so we thought, “Why not combine the two celebrations today in one post?” Rev. Klaus Arnold is a German Nazarene... Continue Reading →
The following is a video created by Ligonier Ministries, that provides a summary of the historic and important Protestant Reformation. "500 years ago, a German monk named Martin Luther started a protest that exploded into a worldwide movement. So what was the Protestant Reformation all about? Discover the answer in this short video narrated by... Continue Reading →
*Excerpt from Five Minutes in Church History by Dr. Stephen Nichols. This month we are celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation by writing various reflections concerning this momentous occasion and its influence. Dr. Stephen Nichols does the same thing in his Five Minutes in Church History, a podcast I highly recommend. The following... Continue Reading →
I have recently become fascinated by the backstories of great leaders throughout history. Growing up, I studied in school the presidency of Abraham Lincoln and the political influence of Martin Luther King, Jr. Today, students around the world research Gandhi’s brave pacifism and Wangari Maathai’s contribution to democracy and sustainable development. These are history-makers, and... Continue Reading →
“Whether by day or by night, whenever the cloud lifted, they set out…At the Lord’s command they encamped, and at the Lord’s command they set out. They obeyed the Lord’s order, in accordance with his command through Moses” (Numbers 9:21, 23). October 2017 is a special month. It marks the five-hundredth anniversary of the Protestant... Continue Reading →
We must fix our sights on places where the church is not yet, engaging in intercessory prayer, sacrificial giving, and physically going to and mobilizing others to go to these places. Each time you give to the World Evangelism Fund, you send the message of the gospel into areas where “the church is not yet.”... Continue Reading →
Por Scott Armstrong "On hearing this, Jesus said, 'It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners'" Matthew 9:12-13 NIV. (Read Matthew 9:9-13) I have to admit. The Emergency Room is... Continue Reading →
By Dan Reiland It’s easy to get so busy doing ministry that you don’t take the time to evaluate your ministry. But evaluation is how you get better. It’s like your annual physical. No one wants to get a check-up, blood work, and maybe a test or two, but that’s how you learn what you... Continue Reading →
By Scott Armstrong "He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there (Genesis 12:5)." (Read Genesis 12:1-9) What was the most incredible vacation you ever went on? Where did you go and what... Continue Reading →
This is part two of the article published in the previous post written by Dan Reiland. 1) Discover what is underneath. When a person becomes difficult, and the situation seems to persist, try setting the issue aside and take the conversation to a more personal level. Get “underneath” the obvious to discover if there is... Continue Reading →
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