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Written By: Rich Hannon

July 29, 2021

Navigating Theological Change
Human organizations are messy. Faulty, political, subject to factions. A collective that will never hold enough uniformity of belief to avert...
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Written By: Kevin R. McCarty

July 28, 2021

A Risk Worth Taking: The Story of My...
I went from a partaker of church events to an invested member of a community.
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Written By: Jason Hines

July 22, 2021

The Other Brother
Throughout the ages theologians have hypothesized about the best way to interpret parables. We have come to realize that they have multiple layers of...
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Written By: Kim Allan Johnson

July 22, 2021

Does God Call Us to Minister to the...
My new insight was that God’s strategic plan for reaching Babylon included a radically different type of mission strategy. Unlike us, he targeted the...
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Written By: Matthew Quartey

July 15, 2021

Is it Presumptuous to Expect Straight...
Supplications to God should be grounded in profundity, not empty habit. But when prayer becomes a cliché, as evidenced by the phrase “thoughts and...
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Written By: Hanz Gutierrez

July 08, 2021

How Historically Embodied is a Prophet...
One merit of Steve Daily's book is that it highlights the inevitable link between prophetic ministry and psychological profile. But while Daily...
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Written By: Kevin McGill

July 07, 2021

Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others
It is absurd to believe in equality with one breath and deny it with another. Complementarianism, as spread through Emerson Eggerichs’ Love &...
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Written By: Courtney Ray

July 01, 2021

Say No to This
Our church’s emphasis on health puts us in a prime position to champion the promotion of good mental health habits. This includes the art of saying “...
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Written By: Charles Scriven

June 26, 2021

Time to Start Over: Is There Dawn After...
Over several months, I have been offering occasional essays under the title, “Time to Start Over.” Here is my last, and I want first of all to say...
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Written By: Jason Hines

June 24, 2021

Naaman and Presumptive Judgment
Unless God has come to any one of us specifically and told us that we must inject ourselves into someone else’s life and decisions, then I think we...
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