In my early days as a college religion professor, a student wanted to write an essay on the concept of Satan in order to fulfill a course requirement. When she submitted the paper, I laughed heartily—throughout the paper she had misspelled Satan as "Satin."
Actually, maybe she was not far off!…
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When he accepted his assignment as 33rd general superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene in 2001, Talmadge Johnson said, "I accept your voice today. And I will get on with the business of serving God and honoring Him."
Johnson has never gone back on that promise to his church. In fact, from…
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"Anywhere with Jesus I can safely go . . ." When I was a child attending church, we often sang that chorus on Sunday nights. And our congregation sang the chorus with exclamation marks: "Anywhere! Everywhere! Fear I cannot know."
I thought of the song while pondering the psalmist's question: "…
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In 25 years, HIV has infected 65 million people, and killed 25 million of these through AIDS. Currently 17.3 million women live with the virus, 13 million of them in Africa. Indeed, in several sub-Saharan African countries more than 25 percent of the adult population is infected with AIDS.…
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If you've had your ears open around church, you've heard the term "postmodern." For more than a decade, culture specialists and sociologists have announced the coming of the postmodern generation—a generation that would upset all we know about the growth of Christianity.
Gone are the days when the…
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Most people are looking for a life that pleases them. Who wouldn't? In 1 Thessalonians, the first book of the New Testament to be written, the apostle Paul talks about a life that pleases God. Actually, the life that pleases God also pleases us. Our experiences and Scripture teachings demonstrate…
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HT: How did you become interested in missions?
From the time I was a young girl, missions was interesting to me. I wanted to tell others about Christ and his great love.
I loved hearing missionary speakers who visited our church for Faith Promise services. Of course I enjoyed their stories, but I…
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Even though I grew up in a pastor's family in Germany, that does not mean I lived as I should have lived. I didn't. I needed to find out for myself what the world had to offer, and I certainly did. Today, as a youth pastor in the Netherlands, I see young people beginning the same journey and…
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After years of listening to people in my counseling office share their own "shouldas, couldas, and wouldas," I decided I'd live to regret it if I didn't write about this topic. Not that I didn't already harbor my own compunctions. I would love to relive plenty of conversations or open doors of…
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Q: How can we not worry with all that is going on in the world?
I woke up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat. My heart was pounding and my mind was racing. "Will I be able to pay our bills when our first child arrives?"
Even though we were seven months from our daughter's birth,…