While typing my thesis, I suddenly sensed someone behind me. Turning around in my chair, I saw a large homeless man, blank-faced, dazed by drug use. He had entered the church building—and my office—silently. Engaging him in conversation, I called down the hall for the senior and associate pastors to join me and was soon […]
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Why Seminary Students Must Be Involved in a Local Church
Many Bible college and seminary towns have the same dilemma—how to get seminary students out of their peer group and into the life of the local church. Students flock to local churches, especially to those with vital preaching and evangelism ministries, yet can often be found clustered together in a circle talking about their studies […]
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In the opening verses of Ezra 5, the returned exiles, now re-engaged in their calling to rebuild the temple, encounter opposition: “Tattenai, the governor of the province beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their colleagues came to them and spoke to them thus, “Who issued you a decree to rebuild the temple and to finish this […]
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