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Good News Productions International
Mission & Evangelism

Sending, Serving, Reaching: Good News Productions International

Good News Productions International equips local teams around the world to use culturally relevant media, technology, and local languages to share the gospel in their own communities.

Jennifer Taylor · February 20, 2012
FAME medical missions
Mission & Evangelism

Sending, Serving, Reaching: FAME

FAME executive director Rick Wolford explains how medical mission teams, health-care facilities, scholarships, and Community Health Evangelism connect compassionate physical care with opportunities to share the gospel.

Jennifer Taylor · February 20, 2012
Hope Partnership Nairobi
Mission & Evangelism

Sending, Serving, Reaching: Christian Missionary Fellowship

Christian Missionary Fellowship combines evangelism with education, health care, economic development, campus ministry, and church planting, bringing a holistic approach to communities in Nairobi and around the world.

Jennifer Taylor · February 20, 2012
Christians and misinformation
Christian Living

Speak the Truth Even on the Internet

Eleanor Daniel challenges Christians to take truth seriously, verify Internet rumors before sharing them, and recognize that responsible use of social media is part of faithfully representing Christ.

Eleanor Daniel · February 16, 2012
extending grace
Christian Living

Our Journey with Grace

Pam Parmenter reflects on confession, hurt, forgiveness, and broken relationships, sharing how a painful season revealed the difficulty—and transforming power—of extending grace to one another.

Pam Parmenter · February 14, 2012
confession and forgiveness
Discipleship & Spiritual Formation

Works Without Grace Are Dead

Todd Parmenter reflects on ministry failure, confession, forgiveness, and restoration—and how moving from a theology of works toward grace transformed his understanding of Christian community.

Todd Parmenter · February 14, 2012
church restoration
Church Leadership

What We Learned

Brad Neal reflects on lessons learned as church elders walked through ministry failure, repentance, forgiveness, and public restoration, discovering how accountability and grace can lead a congregation toward…

Brad Neal · February 13, 2012
pastoral restoration
Church Leadership

Celebrating the Restoration of a Broken-World Brother

Don Green recounts a 20-month pastoral restoration process involving accountability, counseling, confession, reconciliation, and a public service celebrating a minister’s restored fellowship with the church.

Don Green · February 12, 2012
going to church
Church Life

His Church & Her Church

Daniel Schantz humorously compares the very different ways he and his wife experience church, from fellowship and worship to Communion, sermons, and the people sitting around them.

Daniel Schantz · February 11, 2012
Church Leadership

Our Elders May Function Differently Than Yours

Stephen Bond explains how Summit Christian Church approaches elder selection, term limits, leadership, and decision-making while challenging assumptions that Scripture requires one model of church governance.

Stephen Bond · February 9, 2012
biblical meaning of Communion
Theology & Bible

More Than a Memorial

Tom Lawson examines how Reformation history shaped Protestant language about Communion and argues that the New Testament presents the Lord's Supper as more than a memorial or merely…

Tom Lawson · February 6, 2012
Theology & Bible

Meeting and Meaning at the Lord’s Supper

Lee Magness explores the Lord's Supper through four familiar names—Lord's Supper, Communion, Eucharist, and sacrament—and considers how each reveals the meal's significance and central place in Christian worship.

Lee Magness · February 5, 2012
biblical restoration
Restoration Movement History

What Are We Trying to Restore?

Gary Weedman considers what Christians mean by “restoration,” arguing that the biblical vision reaches beyond restoring church practices to God's larger work of restoring relationships, his rule, and…

Gary Weedman · February 3, 2012
growing up in a parsonage
Church Life

Seven Heavens

Daniel Schantz looks back with humor and affection on growing up in seven parsonages, recalling crowded homes, nonexistent privacy, childhood mischief, unexpected visitors, and memories that made each…

Daniel Schantz · January 31, 2012
growing up in a minister's family
Family & Relationships

A Preachers Kids Hopes for His Own PKs

Minister and preacher's kid Shan Caldwell reflects on growing up in a minister's family and shares lessons about church, parenting, conflict, vocation, ministry, community, and prayer.

Shan Caldwell · January 30, 2012
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