This website is a personal web ministry of Matthew B. Gage and is dedicated to providing solid yet simple information and resources to believers everywhere.
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Valparaiso Indiana (IN)
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Your hosts: Ken and Betty Christensen
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A mission that works in conjunction with the local church.
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Compassionate Christ centred care
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Need: Bi-Vocational, Self-Supported, or Missionary Pastor
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Seeking a Senior Pastor
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We must always be people of the Word, but we'll have to reimagine deep engagement with Scripture.Christians are readers. We are “people of the book.” We own personal Bibles, translated into our mother tongues, and read them daily. Picture “quiet time” and you’ll see a table, a cup of coffee, and a Bible spread open to dog-eared, highlighted, annotated pages. For Christians, daily Bible reading is the minimum standard for the life of faith. What kind of Christian, some of us may think, doesn’t meet this low bar?This vision of our faith resonates for many. It certainly describes the way I was raised. As a snapshot of a slice of the church at a certain time in history—20th-century American evangelicals—it checks out. But as a timeless vision of what it means to follow Christ, it falls short, and it does so in a way that will seriously impinge on our ability to make disciples in an increasingly postliterate culture, a culture in which most people still understand the bare mechanics of reading but overwhelmingly consume audio and visual media instead.We can see how this literacy-focused idea of Christianity will fail in the future by looking to the past. For most of Christian history, most believers were illiterate. Reading the Bible daily wasn’t an option because reading wasn’t an option.This doesn’t mean Scripture was irrelevant to ordinary Christians’ lives. But the sacred page wasn’t primarily a private matter for personal devotion; it was a public matter heard in the gathering of God’s people for worship. The Bible was the church’s book—a liturgical book, a book whose natural habitat was the voice of Christ’s body lifted in praise. To hear the Word of God, you joined the people of God. Lectors ...Continue reading...
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The digital transformation of healthcare has revolutionised the way you manage your health, making it more accessible and personalised than ever before. With the advent...Exploring the Role of Technology in Personal Health: A New Age of Wellness
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Legendary actor Dennis Quaid calls his new gospel album an “autobiographical” record, saying it tells the story of a man searching for purpose until he filled his “God-sized hole” through his Christian faith.
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As more people are dancing around the topic of Technocracy, more pieces of the puzzle fall into place. Personally, I take original Technocracy at its...Technocracy: “The Science Of Social Engineering” And The End Of Debt
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Notable Evangelical pastor, author, and radio personality Chuck Swindoll is stepping down as senior pastor of Stonebriar Community Church, a Texas megachurch based in Frisco, but he will continue to preach on Sundays.?
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