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Archives for 2005
How Does the Disciple Live? 12/18/2005 How the disciple lives naturally comes out of who the disciple is...read My Soul's Dark Night 12/11/2005 The best of evangelicalism didn't prepare me for this struggle...read Lights for Thanksgiving 11/24/2005 Dad was always full of plans...read Who Is Your Teacher? 11/20/2005 What happens to Jesus in the crush of the information pushers?...read The Righteousnessness of God 11/20/2005 Righteousness is something that every heart longs for. Let me show you what I mean...more Apologetics in Action 11/13/2005 We asked Dallas Willard to role-play an evangelistic conversation with a 20 year old girl who grew up in a Christian home, but finds her worldview challenged when she goes to college...more A Hard Pill to Swallow 11/13/2005 How the tiny tablet upset my soul...read Exploring a Parallel Universe 11/06/2005 by Philip Yancey Why does the word evangelical threaten so many people in our culture? ...read The Hardest Task 11/06/2005 First, change yourself...more Mystery Solved 10/30/2005 Can I Really Expect God to Protect Me? 10/23/2005 Divine promises in the midst of suffering...read Plastic Christianity Or The Real Thing? 10/23/2005 The "process" of how we live is as important to God as the "end product" of what we become...more Bringing Peace to Paradise 10/09/2005 British missionary John Williams pioneered the spread of Christianity in the South Pacific by employing the zeal of Polynesian converts...more Does Prayer Change God? 10/09/2005 Probing a fathomless mystery....read A 'Coward' Who Stayed to Help 10/09/2005 Why Brennan Manning isn't interested in asking why he survived Katrina and others did not...read Jason Questions a Jesus Freak 10/02/2005 San Francisco in the '60's ...read For Such A Time As This 09/25/2005 Not every time period in history is the same...more Of Wardrobes and Potters 09/25/2005 Worship 09/18/2005 John Piper It would be my great joy to persuade you that God's demand for worship is beautiful love, not ugly pride...more The Importance of Fasting 09/18/2005 Bill Bright When we fast, we turn from the things that daily grab our attention, and we focus solely on God...read Parable of the Good Church 09/11/2005 Neither the fury of Katrina nor inefficiencies of government can stop the people of God...read The Grace of Forgiveness 09/11/2005 Forgiveness is no minor aspect of the Christian life. It is an incalculable blessing that we receive from the Lord when we exercise saving faith and repentance...more After Katrina, Some Hard Questions 09/04/2005 In the catastrophic wake of Hurricane Katrina, America is no longer the same...more Tsunami and Repentance 09/04/2005 John Piper Every deadly calamity is a merciful call from God for the living to repent...read God Behind Barbed Wire 08/28/2005 How a Nazi-soldier-turned-theologian found hope...read The Gift of Shared Pain 08/28/2005 "It's natural to fight pain and run from it. But you do not need to be defeated by it. Believe it or not, pain can be a gift. The day that understanding comes to you, you will find peace...more Christians Raise Ministry Profile 08/21/2005 'Celebration 2005' offers service as low-key witness...more I Seek Not What is Yours But You 08/21/2005 by John Piper...read In the open fields, I sang a song of freedom 08/14/2005 read... Environmental Wager 08/07/2005 Why evangelicals are—but shouldn't be—cool toward global warming...read An Effective Response to Terrorism 08/07/2005 An army officer with frontline experience in counter-terrorism operations, David Christie still carries a piece of terrorist grenade in his body...more Running to Prison 07/31/2005 Doing what Jesus says doesn't make any sense, but—if you actually try it—it works...read Meet the New C&MA President 07/31/2005 Dr. Gary M. Benedict...more How Discipline Died 07/24/2005 The church should stop taking its cues from the state...read "Fear Not; I Am with You" 07/17/2005 Reflections on the London Blasts...read What's Cooking? 07/10/2005 Chef Barna’s State of the Church in 2005...read A More Perfect Society 07/03/2005 Why I wouldn't want to live there...read Worship as Higher Politics 07/03/2005 Political priorities for citizens of the kingdom...more How To Drink Orange Juice to the Glory of God 06/26/2005 John Piper Sin is anything you do that you don't do for the glory of
God...read The Way of Service 06/26/2005 Sadhu Sundar Singh An Indian mystic explores "seva"...more The Japanese Joseph 06/26/2005 by Philip Yancey What the North Korean regime meant for evil, God used for good...read In Praise of Fatherhood 06/19/2005 One of the oldest pieces of advice for families is the Fifth Commandment of Moses: “Honor your father and your mother”...read A Jewel of a Writer 06/12/2005 Bret Lott is a true-blue evangelical who writes literary fiction that New York takes seriously (and that Oprah loves)...more Success? 06/12/2005 Money Can't Buy Happiness...read A Quirky and Vibrant Mosaic 06/05/2005 Evangelicals are admired, mocked, praised, scorned—and all for good reason...read Jesus' Reminders 05/29/2005 Philip Yancey The image Jesus left with the world, the cross, the most common image in the Christian religion, is proof that God cares about our suffering and pain...read Toward the Tithe and Beyond 5/29/2005 John Piper How God Funds His Work...more Naked Pride 05/22/2005 John Stott The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man...read Swords Into Plowshares 05/22/2005 A Former Soldier of Christ Offers the Church a New Metaphor for Evangelism...more Sex in the Body of Christ 05/15/2005 Chastity is a spiritual discipline for the whole church...read Letters from Ban Nam Khem 05/15/2005 Americans on the Receiving End...more The Daffodils 05/08/2005 William Wordsworth On a breezy day in the spring of 1802, the great poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and his sister Dorothy were out walking along the Ullswater in England’s Lake District...read A Bow and a Kiss 05/01/2005 by Philip Yancey Authentic worship reveals both the friendship and fear of God...more Cost Plus 05/01/2005 Missionaries pay a high price for the falling greenback...read Like Fire 04/10/2005 Peter Riedemann
"Once a fire really flares, the more wood one puts on it, the better it burns. When there is no more wood, however, it dies and grows cold. It is the same with love..." read more Thinking Straighter 04/10/2005 Why the world's most famous atheist now believes in God...continued We Get No Respect! 04/03/2005 Hey Dad, Dads get no respect. I know this doesn't come as a shocker to you …continue The Last Hour 04/03/2005 Thoughts on Dying - and Letting Go...read Emergency Room Easter 03/27/2005 Three days before Easter, one of our six-week-old twin boys came down with bronchiolitis...read My Last Visit with Terri Schiavo 03/27/2005 If only Terry could say 'I want to live,' this whole thing could be over, says a lawyer for the Schindlers...more Spirituality for All the Wrong Reasons 03/20/2005 Eugene Peterson talks about lies and illusions that destroy the church...read You've Got Mail 03/13/2005 Eugene H. Peterson To the Suburban Church of North America: Read... Forgiving the Unrepentant 03/13/2005 Can I forgive those who have betrayed me if they are not repentant? More... Global Suspense 03/06/2005 by Philip Yancey The trick of faith is to believe in advance what will only make sense in reverse...continued The Relinquished Life 03/06/2005 Oswald Chambers No one is ever united with Jesus Christ until he is willing to relinquish not sin only, but his whole way of looking at things...read The French Reconnection 02/27/2005 Europe's most secular country rediscovers its Christian roots...continued My 300-year-old mentor 02/22/2005 .Jonathan Edwards' legacy lives on..read Justification by Faith 02/20/2005 The Remedy for Paralyzed Sinners, Fallen Saints, and Provincial Christians...here Sensation or forgery? 02/20/2005 Researchers hail dramatic First Temple period finding...read 'Let My Heart Be Broken … ' 01/30/2005 World Vision has changed much over the years, but the vision and compassion of its founder, Bob Pierce, continues to give it heart and soul...more Living as God's Beloved 01/23/2005
by Paula Rinehart An Interview with Brennan Manning...read Bent but Not Broken 01/16/2005 By Manpreet Singh A pummeled church helps bury the dead and bring life to those who remain...read True Fellowship 01/16/2005 Jerry Bridges Is there more to fellowship than coffee and doughnuts after the worship service? ...click here Tsunami and Repentance 01/09/2005 John Piper From pulpits to news programs, from the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal, the message of the tsunami was missed...read Back From the Brothel 01/09/2005 by Philip Yancey Thanks to brave ministries, prostitutes are still entering the kingdom...more A Look Of Love 02/07/2005 Persecuted priest's smile planted faith in a Chinese activist...read A Season of Preparation 02/06/2005 Reflections on Lent...here |