Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal published an article entitled "Syrian Conflict Draws in Christians" which draws attention to the unique challenges Christians face within the ongoing conflict in Syria. One often unnoticed or under-reported challenge of the of the last few years is that, due to their precarious situation of during the Arab Spring, many Christians are …
Saturday Prayer 29
How can those who are young keep their way pure? By living according to Your word. (Psalm 119:9) Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth. (John 17:17 Lord, make me alive according to Your word. Take me into the truth, for Your word is truth. I want to live according to Your word, …
Saturday Prayer 28
And after the fire came a gentle whisper. (1 Kings 19:2) Lord, let me hear Your whisper today. With all the din of sounds and voices, Let me hear Your whisper today. [This is part of a series of prayer posts in 2012 that began here.]
GIG 2012 at Eastbrook Church
Tomorrow marks the beginning of the bulk of our Global Initiatives Gathering (GIG) 2012 here at Eastbrook Church. GIG 2012 is an exciting opportunity for us as a church to be informed about God's work in the world and invited into specific ways that we can join that work together. We are joined this year by …
Religion and the City [repost from NewGeography]
Aaron Renn from The Urbanophile recently had an article reposted at NewGeography that a friend passed along to me. The article, "Religion and the City," traces the importance of religion in urban contexts from a sociological perspective outside of the Christian sphere. It is an insightful read calling for religion to be taken seriously in …
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