This week in WWDWWD we will answer the question: “Why are we going to plant a church?” We plant churches for God’s glory, because it is the church’s mission, and because we love lost sinners. There are many proximate purposes, but only one ultimate purpose for the church’s sojourn on earth. Proximate purposes include being …
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Why We Plant Churches
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Latest News
Posted Apr 26th, 2011 By Cadets in Cadets Blog With | No CommentsThree things: News from the Okkens: “Rejoice with us on this Resurrection Sunday as the whole Karimojong Bible has finally been printed! We should be receiving many copies this week. What a joy to see some Karimojong reading the Old Testament for the very first time.” Thanks to everybody for helping out at the pancake breakfast, we were …
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The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Posted Apr 22nd, 2011 By Allison in Pastor Brian's Blog, Why We Believe What We Believe With | No CommentsThere is always a tendency to knock off some of the rough edges of our faith. And among those rough edges stands the roughest of them all: the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. The resurrection is absurd because in our everyday experience dead people don’t come back to life. Imagine your reaction …
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Bottles & Rags
Posted Apr 18th, 2011 By Cadets in Cadets Blog With | No CommentsAs your cadet(s) might have told you, we’ve started to make crosses. As I’ve told the boys, in cadets we will make something that is the shape of a cross, but it will be up to them to sand and finish at home to make it beautiful. The finish we’ll be using is both simple …
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Holy Week
Posted Apr 15th, 2011 By Brian in Pastor Brian's Blog, Why We Believe What We Believe With | No CommentsThe church calendar makes a wonderful servant and a horrible master. This is one of the reasons we have chosen to use it in some places (notice the prayer in the front of the bulletin every week and the description of the Sunday, Maundy Thursday service, Good Friday service) while not others (we exposit books …
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Update from Japan
Posted Apr 10th, 2011 By Dean in Missionaries, Missions News Blog With | No CommentsA recent update on the relief efforts in Japan are up at the MTW web site; please visit there and especially the Apr 7 update with corresponding youtube videos. The videos are dramatic and very helpful in reminding us at the devastation, but also of God’s grace in providing help to those effected. From the MTW …
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History of the English Bible, part 13
Posted Apr 8th, 2011 By Brian in Pastor Brian's Blog, Why We Believe What We Believe With | No CommentsIn 2001 Crossway released the most recent revision of the KJV and its revisions, the English Standard Version (hereafter ESV). As the name indicates, the ESV is closely related to the Revised Standard Version and the New Revised Standard Version. Like the New American Standard and American Standard versions, the common theme in these translations …
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2004 Pinewood Video
Posted Apr 7th, 2011 By Cadets in Cadets Blog With | No CommentsThanks to David Dinwiddie for originally shooting and producing, and Craig Doty for rediscovering, this awesome video — look at all those kids from back when they were small!
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History of the English Bible, part 12
Posted Apr 3rd, 2011 By Brian in Pastor Brian's Blog, Why We Believe What We Believe With | No CommentsRevisions of the KJV continued beyond the Revised Version (1885). At the beginning of the 20th century the American Standard was released as a further revision. Then, in 1952, the Revised Standard Version. In 1971 both the New American Standard Version and the King James II Version were released and in 1982 the New King …
