Title: Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion.
Author: By Rebecca McLaughlin
Harold Jantz reviews and recommends this book that will not only equip you intellectually but also call you to compassion and empathy for your questioning, unbelieving neighbour,
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These are biblical phrases I pray when I wake up or as I walk or cycle. I repeat one several times or pray it once and sit with it for…
I like to pray these phrases from Scripture when am I in a difficult situation. They help me focus my mind on Christ’s sufficiency and away from fear and anxiety.…
Based on Psalm 18 You Oh Lord, keep my lamp burning; you turn my darkness into light. With your help, I can advance against an army. With my God, I…
A conversation between two Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary professors about why and how Scripture is read in worship services. Lynn Jost is professor and program director for Old Testament…
Unsettling the Word: Biblical Experiments in Decolonization Steve Heinrichs, editor Mennonite Church Canada, 2018 Review by David Warkentin What is the subject? The book’s subtitle describes Unsettling the Word best:…
Change rocked the Western church 500 years ago as successive groups discovered new things about God through Scripture, and separated from the Roman Catholic church. Renewal 2027 is a framework for a 10-year series of events within the Mennonite World Conference (MWC) global family, commemorating Anabaptism’s role in that period of culture and religious change called the Reformation.
Performative worship songs in Angola teach Bible truth “Why is that woman carrying a huge water can on her head?” I thought to myself. “Why are people putting chairs on…
The men’s prayer meeting had barely begun when he lay his head on the table and said, “I just can’t win over pornography.” I now know that many Christian men…
Throughout church history, Christians have affirmed that the Bible is the authoritative Word of God. But what does that actually mean? While serving in southern Africa, I met people who…
Varied resources encourage daily Bible reading One of the challenges facing churches today is a decline in daily Bible reading. To make God’s Word part of daily life, Waterloo Mennonite…
WINNIPEG Norman Brown’s goal: to distribute the Plautdietsch (Low German) Bible free of charge to every home in Bolivia. Since Kindred Productions released De Bibel in 2003, the Winnipegger has…
According to Scripture, there are many ways in which Christ’s atoning work is good news for every person, whatever his or her experiences. (Our word atonement comes from the Old…
How much of your worship service is spent reading and hearing Scripture? Ten percent? Fifteen? More? Less? In 2004, Constance Cherry, who teaches worship and Christian ministries at Indiana Wesleyan University, surveyed a wide variety of churches in the U.S. to see how much time was spent reading Scripture during worship. She discovered that in traditional, contemporary and “blended” churches, only 2–5 percent of the service was spent reading the Word. In most congregations, significantly more time was taken for announcements than for Scripture reading.
Anabaptism 101 Radical Anabaptism for today “Behold, most beloved reader, thus true faith or true knowledge begets love, and love begets obedience to the commandments of God…” —Menno Simons For…
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