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Friday, January 20, 2006, was a leisurely morning for my husband Matt and me—just as so many we had enjoyed through the years. We sat in front of the bay window enjoying the blessings of companionship. He drank his morning coffee while I sipped my tea.
He read from the Word and I listened to the…
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As he prepares to enter his third year as president of Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts, J. David McClung offers insights into his life.
Q. What is your concept of joy?
A. My grandchildren.
Q. What is your greatest fear?
A. Being bored.
Q. Which historical figures interest…
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Since 1984, Dwight and Carolyn Rich have served as Nazarene missionaries. They live in Quito, Ecuador, where Carolyn is a nurse, food service coordinator for Seminario Teologico Nazareno Sudamericano, and office administrator for the North Andean Field. Dwight is field strategy coordinator for the…
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It was introduced rather quietly and it could have been very easily ignored. For that reason, I'd like to bring it to your attention.
As our committee moved to a unanimous adoption of the resolution, there was a palpable sense that we all desired our church to wrestle with this challenge. This was…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
As director of Marketing and Creative Services for the Carolina Hurricanes, Howard Sadel has had the privilege of being part of a Stanley Cup-winning hockey team. A member of North Raleigh Church of the Nazarene in Raleigh, North Carolina, he has also had the challenge of living out his faith in…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
It was introduced rather quietly and it could have been very easily ignored. For that reason, I'd like to bring it to your attention.
As our committee moved to a unanimous adoption of the resolution, there was a palpable sense that we all desired our church to wrestle with this challenge. This was…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
The essence of Christian worship is captured in these two excerpts written 260 years apart—one now considered a classic hymn of the Church and the other an often—played contemporary chorus, respectively. They both capture the interplay between who God is and our response to God’s work.
In worship…
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All Christians believe that God expresses grace. And all Christians believe God is the source of salvation. But Christians differ among themselves about how best to understand grace and salvation. The key to John Wesley's view of salvation is his understanding of divine grace.
At its essence,…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
All Christians believe that God expresses grace. And all Christians believe God is the source of salvation. But Christians differ among themselves about how best to understand grace and salvation. The key to John Wesley's view of salvation is his understanding of divine grace.
At its essence,…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
I stood looking at the devastation with a sense of foreboding that was hard to shake. Hurricane Katrina had wreaked such havoc across the Gulf Coast that the images on television and in the newspapers made it appear horrendous enough. To see it first hand was almost more than I could take. It was…