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Today at our all staff meeting at Eastbrook Church, we discussed a message by Tim Keller entitled "God's Global Urban Mission - Contextualization" from Cape Town 2010, the Third Laussane Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town, South Africa. It was a very stimulating conversation about the nature of the church in urban settings. You …
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A number of people have joined me this year in reading through the Bible in a year together in 2011, I am dropping a blog post in here every week to give you all a chance to share how God is speaking to you through the readings, or some of the challenges or questions you …
Even though attention has centered on the unrest in Egypt in the last few days, there is still much happening in the North African country of Tunisia. The number of local believers in Tunisia is quite small and so we must pray for and with them during these challenging days. Recently, a new web resource …
Nearly everyone I talk to has been talking about our need to stand with brothers and sisters in Egypt these days. A friend passed along this very helpful post on The Gospel Coalition web-site from Ramez Atallah, general secretary of the Bible Society of Egypt. I have merely re-posted what he shared on that site. …
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It is one thing to talk about forgiveness of sin and another thing to talk about how we respond when others sin against us. Earlier this week, I wrote about the necessity of complete forgiveness from Jesus' words in Luke 17: If a brother or sister sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, …
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Matthew Erickson 