Witchdoctoring and child sacrifice are on the rise in Uganda
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… and apparently it’s about money a good bit of the time. -BBC
The Beagley case goes to court in Oregon this week
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“Jeff and Marci Beagley are charged with criminally negligent homicide for failing to provide adequate medical care for their 16-year-old son, Neil, who died in June 2008 of an untreated urinary tract blockage.” - Oregonian
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Is the emergent/emerging church movement dying... already?
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Phil Johnson thinks so. “You wonder why I’ve hardly posted anything about Emergent/ing Christianity for the past year? The movement has been self-destructing nicely without any help from me.”
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Book Review: The 7 Hardest Things God Asks a Woman to Do
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I am currently leading a group of ladies in a study on consecration, using Havergal’s Kept for the Master’s Use (a verse by verse discussion of her hymn, “Take My Life and Let It Be”). The chapter we are now perusing has to do with the line, “Take my will and make it thine—it shall be no longer mine.” That, in essence, is the theme of this book. Though the idea of self denial is not one that has women alone in the Scripture’s crosshairs, Kathie Reimer and her daughter, Lisa Whittle, discuss from a feminine viewpoint seven seeming paradoxes in the Word of God:
- Have a single focus, yet multi-task
- Be tolerant toward some things, yet intolerant toward others
- Fail, and simultaneously succeed
- Proceed, while also waiting
- Hold on and, in turn, let go
- Lead, and still follow
- Die, and consequently, live more abundantly
An apt sub-title for this book would be, What It Looks Like for Christian Women to Deny Self.
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