Month: May 2015
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THE CHALLENGE TO HOLINESS FROM A SURPRISING SOURCE
I wanted to share with you some reflection on a marvelous book I have been reading (listening to). It is The Road to Character by David Brooks. I find it a wonderful and thought provoking work, and very challenging as I am forced to inspect my own character, or character flaws, if you will. …
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IS CROSS CULTURAL WORSHIP AUTHENTIC?
One of the questions that has come up several times in the course of my training churches in cross cultural ministry is in the area of worship. Once I had a white pastor say to me, whose church was in an African American neighborhood, “we do lots of ministry in the community, but so far…
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AS YOU WOULD HAVE OTHERS DO TO YOU…
If loving your neighbor as you love yourself means fulfilling the golden rule, i.e., “do unto others as you would have others do unto you,” then what you say and what you do should rightly be taken as the way you want to be treated and the way you want others to speak of you.…