The Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality – Glen Scrivener (Good Book Co., 2022) From the IntroductionGoldfish don’t see water…It shapes everything they do and everything they see. But they don’t see it. Here’s the contention of this book: if you’re a Westerner…you are a goldfish, […]
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“All Things To All People”: Paul’s Principle of Accommodation Part 1 “All Things To All People”: Paul’s Principle of Accommodation Part 2 3. The principle in practice Paul’s principle of accommodation, as explained in 1 Corinthians 9, refers primarily to his social conduct. Instances in Acts and the Epistles can be used to show that
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A History of Denmark Palle Lauring, David Hohnen (Translator) Excerpts from the book p. 203 The Danish position at the outbreak of nearly every war may puzzle some people: did the Danes then never learn? Time and again the same strategic situation, time and again apparently the same mistakes, e.g. the army inconveniently in Holstein just when
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The notion of Unreached People Groups (UPGs) has been an important one in world missions for a number of decades now. A UPG is usually understood to be a distinct ethnic group that is incapable of reaching itself with the Gospel. In other words, there are either no believers or so few believers in that
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“All Things To All People”: Paul’s Principle of Accommodation Part 1 1. Introduction With the words “I have become all things to all people” the Apostle Paul summed up an explanation of the principle which was foundational to his mission. Interestingly, these words appear in common parlance today with various meanings. Often they are an expression
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Parts 1 and 2. A brief history of the Mission Part 3. Aims, motives, principles and methods of the BEM Part 4. Features in the emergence of the indigenous church 4.1 The political climate The political climate in Borneo over the life of the BEM made a significant contribution to the rise of
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Parts 1 and 2. A brief history of the Mission Part 3. Aims, motives, principles and methods of the BEM 3.1 Aims and motives From its foundation, the most fundamental aim of the BEM was to evangelise the unreached tribes of Borneo and to assist in the establishment of a truly indigenous church of
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