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On a recent trip, I entered a city filled with billboards and posters advertising religious events. One especially caught my eye. The bright red headline screamed, "Rapture or Rupture: Your Choice!" It included the time and place of teaching on biblical prophecy. I was intrigued. I realize the…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
"If You Aren't Careful, I'll Have To..."
Ray Hendrix is the son of Spurgeon and Fae Hendrix, who served as missionaries in Argentina, Cuba, in addition to other short-term assignments.
We were living in Argentina when Pearl Harbor was bombed. My parents listened to the news through short-wave…
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"When you're on the mission field, do you do anything besides travel around and eat?"
The question surprised me. I was in the United States on home assignment, traveling to churches and telling people about the work of missions in the former Soviet Union. On these occasions, I usually pulled out…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
"When you're on the mission field, do you do anything besides travel around and eat?"
The question surprised me. I was in the United States on home assignment, traveling to churches and telling people about the work of missions in the former Soviet Union. On these occasions, I usually pulled out…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
"When you're on the mission field, do you do anything besides travel around and eat?"
The question surprised me. I was in the United States on home assignment, traveling to churches and telling people about the work of missions in the former Soviet Union. On these occasions, I usually pulled out…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
"When you're on the mission field, do you do anything besides travel around and eat?"
The question surprised me. I was in the United States on home assignment, traveling to churches and telling people about the work of missions in the former Soviet Union. On these occasions, I usually pulled out…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
The denomination's Centennial Celebration that took place October 5 included 18,000 Nazarene churches in all 24 time zones. In many churches, celebratory events spanned the days and weeks before and after October 5.
Preparations for the day began in 2004 with the writing and translation of…
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The six people sitting across from me were so powerful that it was illegal for them to be in the same room. They had to get special permission from the government to meet. And yet, here they were in a Warner Brothers board room, six of the most influential people in television: the network vice…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
We often teach that the “Reformation period” ended in the late 1700’s, as the separation of church and state became viewed as a powerful and preferred ideal within Western political imaginations and structures. Interestingly, however, there are some who include the Reformation as merely the first…
Dec, 01, 2009 0
Woman's place. Those two words can flare up intense controversy whenever they are uttered.
The 20th century began and ended with intense debates on the topic. The polarization continues. Has our denomination reflected on the question of the 'official' place of women, both lay and clergy?…