SQJ Taipei

Thanks to Wayne at ekklisia for linking to What Kind of Resurrection? on Dr. Darrell Bock’s blog.
Dr. Bock is one of the main speakers at the Taiwan Missionary Fellowship 2008 Summer Conference.
Although I’ve done some work on the TMF website and currently sit on the administrative committee, I didn’t know Dr. Bock had a blog.
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I think this is the right moment to consider a question which is often asked: If Christianity is true why are not all Christians obviously nicer than all non-Christians? What lies behind that question is partly something very reasonable and partly something that is not reasonable at all. The reasonable part is this. If conversion [...]

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The Amish are usually right.
OCT 2, 2007
One year ago today, a shooter entered a one-room Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pa., dismissed all but 10 girls, and fired at them execution-style, killing five before shooting himself.
Within hours, the Amish community forgave the killer and his family. News of the instant forgiveness stunned the outside world [...]

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HT: Michael at The View From Taiwan
I found this article about Taiwan’s Aborigine Christians pretty interesting on several levels.

It assumes that Christianity is primarily about “going to church”
It reveals some of Taiwan’s history, primarily in aboriginal cultures
It spotlights some of the pitfalls of transplanting western Christian structures here
I happen to know John McCall who is [...]

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So some letters have been found that indicate Mother Teresa did not always feel the presence of Christ.
All this means is that she was like you and me in some ways.
John at Bikehiker has a great post as to the implications of this revelation and how it perhaps even makes her example even more powerful [...]

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What Christ thinks of the church is a question of great concern to all Christians. What we ourselves think of it from the inside and what others think of it from the outside are also important. But far more significant is the view of Jesus Christ himself, since he is the church’s founder, head, and [...]

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Fighting Over the New Testament - Real Live Preacher

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The other day, Mark Roberts started post #6 in the series Ancient Ephesus and the New Testament with these words from Paul:

“But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost, for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries” (1 Cor 16:8-9).

Christians seem to talk a lot about [...]

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If you are into Christian history, Biblical history, Archaeology, and Prayer… you probably already read Mark Roberts’ Blog. But if you don’t already read it… you’ll probably like to start with his current series, inspired from a recent trip to Ephesus.
This is the permalink for the entire series:
Ancient Ephesus and the New Testament
Ephesus is a fascinating city…
Here’s a [...]

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A couple years ago, I started looking at Harding University Graduate School of Religion. Now that I’ve been out of school for a while, I have a better idea of what I’d like to study. I’m not sure that I’ll study with HUGSR or not. But now I’m on their mailing list.
Their Summer 2007 issue [...]

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