Posted on February 18th, 2008 by Dr. Brian Rapske
Other Categories: Bible Study • Christian Life • Culture
Tags: God • Jesus
You can’t get away from it. Everyone’s talking about profits and losses.
The global economy is moving into a deep recession–perhaps even a depression–some say. Others are just as convinced that the markets are moving through a period of "turbulent correction" trying to find "a bottom" from which they will eventually "power upward" again to new [...]
Posted on January 29th, 2008 by Dr. Brian Rapske
Other Categories: Bible Study • Conversion
Tags: Church
This Sunday marked the second installment in a four part series that our pastor is preaching through entitled "LO$T." The dollar sign in the title is purposeful. The series is all about the dangers of becoming lost as a result of things and the pursuit of them.
He began with a question, "Why do you have [...]
Posted on January 11th, 2008 by Dr. Brian Rapske
Other Categories: Bible Study • Discipleship • Faith • Marriage
Tags: Church • God • Marriage • Prayer • Seminary
Over the Christmas holiday, Rita and I received a long distance call from our eldest daughter Trish in Aberdeen, Scotland . With great excitement she announced, "Pete and I are engaged!"
The journey to this moment of family joy has been nothing if not exciting and a challenge to faith.
From their very earliest years, we as [...]
Posted on January 7th, 2008 by Mr. Loren Warkentin
Other Categories: 2008 Challenge • Bible Study • New Year
Tags: Bible • God • Gospel • Jesus • Prayer
I would like to present you with a tough but exciting challenge for 2008 . . . but let me back up a little!
This past two months I have been somewhat restricted in my activities because of a ruptured achilles tendon. After 4 weeks in a fiberglass cast and now another almost 4 weeks in [...]
Posted on December 21st, 2007 by Dr. Lyle Schrag
Other Categories: Bible Study
Tags: Church • God • Holy Spirit • Prayer
There seems to have been a revival of interest in ancient forms of spiritual discipline, notably in the area of prayer. From the early Church, the day was marked by regular hours. As early as the Didache in 60 A.D. Christians were encouraged to pray with regularity – the Lord’s Prayer three times a day, [...]
Posted on October 22nd, 2007 by Dr. Brian Rapske
Other Categories: Bible • Bible Study • Biblical Languages • Christian Life • Church • Discipleship • Ethics • Hermeneutics • Preaching • Translation Issues
Tags: Bible • Church • Jesus
It’s that time of the semester once again. The Registrar’s office has asked each professor to indicate whether they are requiring an examination that needs to be scheduled into the examination week for their courses. The schedule is out and professors and students are all now aware of when each examination will need to be [...]
Posted on October 17th, 2007 by Mr. Loren Warkentin
Other Categories: Bible • Bible Study • Christian Life • Culture
Tags: Bible • Church • Culture • God • Gospel • Leaders • New Testament • Prayer • Scripture • Translation
There is, today, a proliferation of articles, books and speakers discussing the topic of “hearing God”. Several well known evangelical preachers and leaders have weighed in with their contributions. I did a web search on the words “hearing God” and was fascinated by what came up. Page after page listing web sites, books, articles and other [...]
Posted on September 26th, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other Categories: Bible Study • Christian Life • Discipleship • Spiritual Formation
Tags: Bible • Church • God • Jesus
For the past couple of years I have been leading a Bible study on the theme “touching the robe of Christ.” This was adopted as a paradigm for the desire to break past misleading interpretations, religious terminology and church traditions and trappings in order to connect with God through Christ, to experience the reality of [...]
Posted on September 19th, 2007 by Dr. Larry Perkins
Other Categories: Bible • Bible Study • Biblical Languages • Hermeneutics • Ministry • New TestamentTalk • Preaching • Theology • Translation Issues
Tags: Bible • God • Gospel • Jesus • Leaders • Ministry • New Testament • Theology • Translation
No, this is not an attack on any Bible translation. But it is a serious question — how do our translations of the Bible influence the forming of our Christian worldview? We believe that God intended his Word to be translated into every language. Yet as we make the transition from Greek or Hebrew text [...]
Posted on August 2nd, 2007 by Dr. Brian Rapske
Other Categories: Bible Study • Conversion • Evangelism
Tags: Cross • God • Jesus • Theology
Yesterday, August 1st at 6:05 pm, an extended section of the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota suddenly collapsed, sending dozens of vehicles, together with their drivers and passengers, plunging into the Mississippi River. The images yesterday were of emergency personnel and citizens on the scene scrambling amid the tons of twisted metal and broken concrete [...]
Posted on July 31st, 2007 by Dr. Larry Perkins
Other Categories: Bible Study • Biblical Languages
Tags: Church • God • Gospel • Jesus • New Testament • Old Testament
Eugene Boring in his new commentary on Mark’s Gospel published in the New Testament Library (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006) proposes that the first word in Mark’s Gospel (archÄ“) signifies both beginning or origin, and norm, which he proposes should be translated as "the norm for the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ" (32). There [...]
Posted on July 24th, 2007 by Dr. Brian Rapske
Other Categories: Bible Study • Church
Tags: Cross • God • Gospel • Jesus • Missions • Old Testament
Our house has been a-hum with guests most of this month. But as busy as we’ve been, the joy has been greater. Sitting around the crowded dinner table laden with good things this week, I’ve been reminded of how many times in the past my family and I have been the beneficiaries of God’s great [...]
Posted on July 13th, 2007 by Dr. Brian Rapske
Other Categories: Bible Study • Evangelism • Salvation
Tags: God • Jesus
Last night our family had a dinner and DVD night at home. After a delicious taco salad, we settled in to watch Miss Potter, about the famed children’s author Beatrix Potter who gave the world Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-duck and a host of other characters and their various adventures. A significant sub-theme in the movie [...]
Posted on July 3rd, 2007 by Dr. Brian Rapske
Other Categories: Bible Study
Tags: God • Jesus
While there is a debate on about the extent of global warming, there are a few things that are sure: Storms will come and we all experience them. We may lose a few shingles off our roof. On the other hand, we may lose the whole house! This is also true in a metaphorical sense. [...]
Posted on June 22nd, 2007 by Dr. Brian Rapske
Other Categories: Bible Study
Tags: Church • Jesus
This past week, I’ve been teaching a course on the letter to the Philippians. Written by the apostle Paul out of the troubled circumstances of an imprisonment, it is addressed to one of his most beloved congregations who themselves were going through much trouble and persecution.
Do you know the good and the great embodiments of [...]
Posted on June 18th, 2007 by Mr. Loren Warkentin
Other Categories: Bible Study • Godliness
Tags: God • Jesus • Scripture
For the past several weeks our care group has been studying the topic of godliness. We have looked at a number of passages of Scripture that speak to the subject. The theme question we have posed for this study has been, “What does godliness look like in everyday shoe leather?”
The apostle Peter, speaking [...]
Posted on June 11th, 2007 by Dr. Larry Perkins
Other Categories: Bible Study • Biblical Languages
Tags: God • Gospel • Holy Spirit • Jesus • New Testament • Old Testament • Translation
In the infancy stories of Jesus recounted in Luke and Matthew God actively directs events to preserve his Son and to inform participants about the significance of these occurrences. For example twice in Matthew 2 God reveals (chrÄ“matizÅ) “by dream†his divine decree to the Magi and to Joseph. In the [...]
Posted on June 8th, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other Categories: Bible Study • Membership
Tags: Bible • Church • Cross • God • Gospel • Jesus • Seminary
My wife, Karen, and I belong to a Bible study connected with our church with participants who are extremely diverse in their Christian faith. One person saw God as a finite being who came into existence at the Big Bang. Another refers to himself as a “lapsed Catholic” who views God as an impersonal force. [...]