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		<title>Diversions and Distractions</title>
		<link>http://missionsforum.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/diversions-and-distractions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blaise Pascal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Diversions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Piper]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A buddy of mine and I were reflecting on the state of our souls as they relate to pleasure and joy. We agree with John Piper that God created us with the capacity to seek after pleasure and joy. Like Augustine, we agree that being fallen creatures, we love (i.e. seek pleasure) inordinately. In other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionsforum.wordpress.com&blog=1538013&post=189&subd=missionsforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Gentle Wind of God: The Influence of the East Africa Revival</title>
		<link>http://missionsforum.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/a-gentle-wind-of-god-the-influence-of-the-east-africa-revival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[East Africa Revival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[East African Revival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racial Reconciliation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Repentance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burundi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Festo Kivengere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mennonite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roy Hession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rwanda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Simeon Nsibambi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tanzania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Nagenda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Richard K. MacMaster and Donald R. Jacobs masterfully recount the genesis and on-going life of the East Africa Revival in &#8220;A Gentle Wind of God: The Influence of the East Africa Revival&#8221; (Find on Amazon).
The significance of this revival for the vitality (vigour in the Latourettian terms) of East African Christianity cannot be overemphasized. Furthermore, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionsforum.wordpress.com&blog=1538013&post=185&subd=missionsforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is Myth?</title>
		<link>http://missionsforum.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/what-is-myth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Anthropology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Myth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Hiebert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Smalley]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Myth is a cosmic story passed on from generation to generation within a people group that explains the nature of reality and existence in light of the world of the gods and ancestors.  These stories, though containing supernatural and sometimes fantastic elements, are assumed to be true by the people group who pass them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionsforum.wordpress.com&blog=1538013&post=182&subd=missionsforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Christians as the Romans Saw Them</title>
		<link>http://missionsforum.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/the-christians-as-the-romans-saw-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Contextualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evangelism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paganism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Timeaus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wilken, Robert Louis. The Christians as the Romans Saw Them. 2d. ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Find on Amazon.
As an interesting perusal of the pagan reaction to Christianity, Wilken provides a valuable insight into the ways in which Christianity is viewed by outsiders. What stands out, at least until Julian in the fourth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionsforum.wordpress.com&blog=1538013&post=178&subd=missionsforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Evangelism in the Early Church</title>
		<link>http://missionsforum.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/evangelism-in-the-early-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Life and Practice in the Early Church]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Green, Michael. Evangelism in the Early Church. Rev. ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004. Find on Amazon.
In Evangelism in the Early Church, Michael Green has given us insight into the world in which early Christians lived, thought, worshipped and evangelized. While the cultural context has changed since then, it is no less complex than the cultural [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionsforum.wordpress.com&blog=1538013&post=164&subd=missionsforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Occasional Posts</title>
		<link>http://missionsforum.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/occasional-posts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Friends, 
I will on occasion resume posting on this blog. Its been a while, but I have had some people still commenting on old posts. So I think God is still using this blog. Look for something once every other week from me.
Blessings!
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		<title>life as mission &#8211;  part 4 of my growing understanding of a theology of mission</title>
		<link>http://missionsforum.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/life-as-mission-part-4-of-my-growing-understanding-of-a-theology-of-mission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Missiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Missional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Missions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[missio Dei]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holistic mission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mission as life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vocation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thus, given a proper understanding of God’s providence and of the missio Dei, the Christian mission, or missiones ecclesiae, is best defined as a holistic transformation of rebellious humanity into a radically humble, obedient, and loving community of Holy Spirit indwelt people from every tribe, nation, and tongue worshipping the Lord Jesus Christ in catholic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionsforum.wordpress.com&blog=1538013&post=162&subd=missionsforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>messianic expectation &#8211; part three of my growing understanding of a theology of mission</title>
		<link>http://missionsforum.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/messianic-expectation-part-three-of-my-growing-understanding-of-a-theology-of-mission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Biblical Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Messianic Expectation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[missio Dei]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Hirsch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apostolic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christendom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Frost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Missional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[missiones ecclesiae]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This missio Dei flows throughout the grand story of scripture, from creation to consummation; it starts in Genesis chapter one and continues until Revelation chapter twenty-two. It is the divine interpretation of reality centered on the birth, life, death, burial, resurrection, ascension, return, and reign of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is mission because it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionsforum.wordpress.com&blog=1538013&post=161&subd=missionsforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God is Bigger than Race!!!</title>
		<link>http://missionsforum.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/god-is-bigger-than-race/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Racial Reconciliation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jena 6]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial equality.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Repentance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jena, LA, is going from this&#8230;. 

to this&#8230;
      
What the national media is not covering demonstrates our nations lust for disunity and discord. Ironically, the one thing that people marched for &#8220;unity&#8221; and &#8220;justice&#8221; is being fulfilled in Jena, LA. Crowds aren&#8217;t thronging this city again to see the work and the change. Oh, that they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionsforum.wordpress.com&blog=1538013&post=159&subd=missionsforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God&#8217;s Providence &#8211; Part 2 of my growing understanding of a theology of mission</title>
		<link>http://missionsforum.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/gods-providence-part-2-of-my-growing-understanding-of-a-theology-of-mission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Creation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Messianic Expectation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Missions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Providence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[missio Dei]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concurrence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Milton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Missionary Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paradise Lost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustenance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology of Mission]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is the best way to understand the word &#8220;mission&#8221;?
Mission is a word chosen to describe actions driven by a purpose or end. The best theological term to describe God&#8217;s mission is his providence. Theologically, God&#8217;s providence has been understood in terms of sustenance, concurrence, and governance. In other words, God actively sustains the world [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionsforum.wordpress.com&blog=1538013&post=158&subd=missionsforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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