Posted on June 17th, 2008 by Dr. Brian Rapske
Other Categories: Christian Life • Discipleship • Heaven • New Testament
Tags: New Testament
Christians are called to live above the level of their culture. I’m OK with that. But living unreflectively can be as spiritually unhealthful as enthusiastically endorsing the culture.
Though I’ve had my share of childhood scraps and squabbles, I’ve never as an adult settled a dispute by resort to bloodshed. I feel good that I’m living [...]
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 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 16th, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other Categories: Christian Life • Discipleship
Tags: Cross • Ministry
During the time we lived in Larkana, Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto became prime minister of Pakistan. Since Larkana was her family home town, there were some obvious perks. One of the most obvious was the construction of several fountains at key intersections. Each fountain had a plaque proclaiming the name of the patron who had funded [...]
Posted on October 5th, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other Categories: Christian Life • Discipleship • Evangelism
Tags: Church • God • Gospel • Jesus • Ministry • Missions • Scripture • Seminary
Five aspects of evangelism common to our churches that need to change if we are to make a gospel impact in our communities:
a. The individualistic nature of evangelism. People commonly view Sunday worship as their expression of church, while the rest of the week is lived without church involvement. For example, I have seen [...]
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 21st, 2007 by Dr. Brian Rapske
Other Categories: Christian Life • Church • Discipleship • Faith • Membership
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My daughters, who’ve recently left home and struck out on their own, are searching for a home church. Sunday they tried out a young congregation meeting at a local movie theater. When we asked them, they described what had gone on that morning during the service. It was great! Earlier in their search they’d found [...]
Posted on September 10th, 2007 by Dr. Larry Perkins
Other Categories: Discipleship • MinistryTalk • Spiritual Formation
Tags: Bible • God • Jesus • Leaders • Ministry • Old Testament • Prayer • Scripture
Great interest now focuses upon fostering spiritual formation within all segments of Christianity. In its best forms, Christian spiritual formation uses various exercises and disciplines to form us to be like Christ, in thought, word and deed. Jesus himself taught his followers to pray, to resist evil, to love, to serve, to pursue righteousness, to [...]
Posted on August 23rd, 2007 by Dr. Brian Rapske
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Have you seen March of the Penguins? It’s an amazing movie! One of the most remarkable scenes is when the Emperor penguins are all clustered together for warmth in stormy, sub-zero Antarctic weather. Many are trying to hatch their young, keeping them delicately balanced and nestled on the tops of their feet.
Without food, the nesting [...]
Posted on February 15th, 2007 by Dr. Larry Perkins
Other Categories: Discipleship
Tags: Church • God • Jesus • Leaders • Ministry • Northwest • Prayer • Seminary
In a post-Super Bowl comment, winning coach Tony Dungy is quoted as saying, ".more than anything else, Lovie Smith and I are not only African-American, but also Christian coaches, showing you can do it the Lord’s way." He doesn’t drink or rant and rave at his players or curse them. Such things are not necessary [...]