Imaginatively Missional
You hear many pastors and theologians attempting to interpret the Book of Revelation in light of what is happening in our world today: Plagues, racial riots, a political antichrist, and the list could go on. It's to be expected, after all, we generally think the end times is about us. Right? Our desire to know …
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Now is a time to empower people to use their gifts (2 Tim 1:3-6), inspire them to join in hardship (2 Tim 1:8-14), entrust them to teach faithful people to carry on the mission (2 Tim 2:1-7), and remind them to preach the word in season and out of season (2 Tim 3:16-4:2). This little …
Many churches and parachurches are evaluating the question of their vision and mission. What is it that we can give up without compromising our mission as we live in the world of the Coronavirus? Now, you have to take what I’m writing as coming from a person who has a medium-to-high tolerance for risk and …
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While many are rightly concerned about the spread of the Coronavirus, it is important to highlight three historical events in the church where God turned the tragedy of the spread of plagues to His glory. First, a plague between 165 AD and 180 AD resulted in a dramatic population decline. Over the course of more than …
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As cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) begin to rise across the globe, governments are instituting travel restrictions, encouraging social distancing, canceling major community and social events, establishing quarantines, and in some cases imposing large-scale lockdowns. Such disruptive measures to daily life in the free world are naturally upsetting and worrisome. Anxiety is already high …
Tom (not his real name), sat up from his position on the couch opposite me, exhaled deeply, and asked the group, “So, what should we do about it?” Last Sunday at our weekly church gathering we found ourselves in a debate. People say never to mix politics and religion, but Jesus never shied away from …
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