Month: May 2021
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Discovering Worship
For years I puzzled over the meaning of worship. My church wasn’t big on catechism at all, but one year we had catechism in school. One of the questions was, “What is worship? Answer: Worship is that attitude in the heart that finds expression in outward acts of prayer and praise and service.” Growing…
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That Jesus Podcast: Same-Sex Attraction
How common is unwanted same-sex attraction? What should a person do about it? That Jesus Podcast continues its series on sex and gender, with Abram sharing his experience growing up Old Order Mennonite while wrestling with same-sex attraction. Listen as he cuts through assumptions and myths about this topic. https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/55-same-sex-attraction-feat-abram-martin/id1487348559?i=1000522931680
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Kingdom Women Podcast: Relationship with the Father
We’re pleased announce the start of the 2021 season of the Kingdom Women’s Podcast. We started this podcast a year ago with a passion for having conversations about Kingdom Womanhood. May you be encouraged and edified! A new season begins and we’re welcoming a new cast member, Sarah Ornelas! Join the Kingdom Women as we…
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How Some of the Most Active Missionaries Can Still Be Very Prejudiced
If our outlook on ‘missions’ is focused only on ourselves, and namely the things we do and the ways we behave, it is going to manifest itself in inadequate and half-hearted relationships. I sent that in response to a brother I met a few months ago through online discussion. He has been struggling significantly with the…
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(VIDEO) Gospel in Brief: Old and New Testaments
Here’s a wonderful resource for those looking to study the gospel through the Old and New Testaments with a Kingdom focus. Andrew Power, who attends a small home fellowship with his family in Arkansas, filmed and recorded these professionally and is planning to put out more written and video resources in due course! His channel…
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You Cannot Love God and Hate Palestinians: Christianity and the “Other”
“You shall love the stranger as yourself” This is proverbially dipping our toes into a maelstrom and one can hardly expect not to be battered in the ensuing lashing winds. But, come, let us speak. Anti-semitism is real. I have seen its face, its faces. The hate is something that stews in the background of…
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Instruments of Holiness: Seven Lessons from Scripture
What is holiness? Is holiness simply a term for self-righteousness or an obscure sense of pious righteousness? Or is it the living reality of a set-apart disciple of the Messiah? In today’s article, we’ll explore seven observations from Scripture about this topic. God is holy, holy, holy. And one cried to another and said: “Holy,…
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Why the Christians you disagree with aren’t “The Unreached”
Sometimes Christians have the tendency to think of only “our group” as the “right kind of Christian”. Titus Kuepfer dispels the notion and calls Christians to focus on bringing the gospel to the world that has not yet even heard His name.
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Discipleship as Education: What Jesus Taught Us About Teaching
When Jesus calls us to be His disciples, He calls us to learn (Matthew 11:29). When Jesus trained and sent His disciples out, He appointed them as teachers (Matthew 28:16-20). Because the first disciples went out and taught all nations and discipled them according to Jesus’s command, including the command to go and teach all…
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