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03/11/10 Rabies
03/06/10 The Supreme Importance of the Great Commission
03/04/10 Pray for the Work in Ethiopia
02/27/10 Who Does God Use?
02/25/10 Missions As Partnership
02/13/10 "Dios No Me Hizo Para Sufrir"
01/31/10 La Gran Comisión del Matrimonio
01/31/10 Sacerdotalism Or Every-Member Ministry?
01/22/10 Cristianos sin Fronteras
01/15/10 Spiritual Fatigue
01/08/10 Fatigue and Me
12/21/09 Peace and Priorities
12/12/09 You Make Me Feel Brand New
12/09/09 Sister Wife
11/13/09 Assisting the Work in Ethiopia
11/06/09 Making a Mockery of the Great Commission
10/25/09 What the Jesus Freaks Got Right
10/23/09 Living in Denial: Cancer and Romans
10/18/09 Freely Give
09/26/09 A First Small Step
09/24/09 Pain
09/16/09 In Pursuit of Health
08/29/09 Coping with Trauma
08/24/09 Update from Becky
08/20/09 The God of What-Ifs
08/18/09 God Didn't Make Me to Suffer! (Part 3)
08/15/09 God Didn't Make Me to Suffer! (Part 2)
08/13/09 God Didn't Make Me to Suffer!
08/10/09 Where Can I Go to Get Away from You?
08/09/09 To Go On Living Is Christ
07/27/09 Shopping List for the Galana Clinic in Burji, Ethiopia
07/14/09 Team Work at the Burji Clinic
07/13/09 Would Jesus Have Written a Book?
07/03/09 Clinic Work in Burji
06/19/09 Why Church?
06/15/09 A Lesson from Ethiopia
05/20/09 Down to Earth Disciples
04/20/09 Our Family on the Hill
04/13/09 Greek DVDs Now Available
03/22/09 Bi-Polar Christians
03/05/09 Beyond Religious Infighting (Phil. 2:12-18)
03/02/09 God's Better Way (Phil. 2:1-11)
02/20/09 Why Pedagogy Matters
02/19/09 Howard Marshall on Christian Harmony
02/16/09 Report on the Galana Clinic: Part 2
02/12/09 Harold Hoehner: Co-Yoked with Christ
02/10/09 Stereotypes!
02/06/09 Report on the Galana Clinic: Part 1
01/31/09 Introducing Philippians
01/29/09 Servants-in-Training
01/23/09 Returning Evangelism to the Local Church
01/22/09 Obama's Sermon on the Steps
01/19/09 Teach, Then Baptize?
01/15/09 Developing a Biblical Ecclesiology
01/10/09 Christians without Borders
01/08/09 Returning Biblical Education to the Local Church
01/02/09 How Are Your Verbs?
11/20/08 Ethiopia Prayer Itinerary, Nov-Dec, 2008
11/20/08 Are You Going to Ethiopia Again?
11/10/08 What Government Cannot Do
11/07/08 Be a Peter!
11/05/08 Are You a Teacher?
10/28/08 Christianity's Prescription for Sick Churches
10/27/08 Will I Vote for McCain?
10/13/08 What's Happening in Ethiopia?
09/19/08 Needs for the Galana Clinic
08/29/08 My Life's Goal
08/27/08 My Fight
08/24/08 Jesus Or Julius?
08/20/08 On the Writing (and Reading) of Books
08/19/08 Current Needs for the Burji Ministry
08/18/08 About Those Sunday School Quarterlies
08/15/08 Is America Sounding Jeffersonian Again?
08/05/08 Ten Timely Tips for Teachable Teachers
07/22/08 Thinking of Christmas?
07/19/08 Erasmus and You
07/14/08 Weeds
07/12/08 Why I Love the Anabaptists
07/09/08 Rite of Passage: A Return to Scriptural Adulthood
06/26/08 As Long As
05/24/08 Dave's Prayer Itinerary
05/11/08 Putting Sacrifice in Perspective
05/08/08 Redestined to Be a 4-Point Missionist
05/01/08 A Message from Aberash and Tilahun
04/29/08 Dissent
04/25/08 Ethiopia Wish List
04/20/08 Just a Servant
04/17/08 Sleepless in Addis Ababa
04/09/08 I Have to Walk
04/01/08 Confessions of a Missional Greek Prof
03/31/08 Where Are the Peace-Makers?
03/21/08 Beyond Lone Ranger Christianity
03/19/08 Contemptus Mundi
03/05/08 An American Theocracy?
02/09/08 Aphorisms on Education
02/02/08 The Power of Personal Observation
01/18/08 Riding a Blue Donkey
01/13/08 Oh, the Beauty of Scripture!
01/07/08 Aberesh of Alaba, My Sister
01/05/08 Understanding the Great Commission
01/02/08 The Role of Humanitarian Aid in Building the Kingdom
12/10/07 Are We Still a Nation of Liberty-Lovers?
12/08/07 Christmas and Prisoners
12/03/07 Regrets
12/01/07 2008 Projects to Help the Church in Ethiopia
11/29/07 Blessed Is the Internet (Sort Of)
11/15/07 Dedicated Servants of Yesteryear
11/13/07 What Christianity Offers Us
11/08/07 You Can't Lock Up Lady Liberty
11/06/07 Admitting Our Mistakes
10/25/07 The Astounding Power of Poverty
10/07/07 Blogging, Politics, and Servitude
10/04/07 Drawing on the Bank of Heaven
10/02/07 My Horses, My Teachers
09/25/07 Are You Intentional About Witnessing?
09/20/07 Me and My Ducks
09/18/07 Is Yet Another War Justified?
09/13/07 Who Is Head of Your Church?
09/11/07 The Suffering Church
09/08/07 A Word to My Ph.D. Students
09/07/07 The Synoptic Problem: Why Are the Fathers Ignored?
09/01/07 A Twenty-First Century Church
08/28/07 The Post-Political Church
08/23/07 The Purpose of a Seminary
08/09/07 A Great Commission Marriage
07/28/07 Shewalem
07/14/07 Is Your Knee Bent?
07/11/07 Handicapped? Serve the Lord Anyway!
07/09/07 The Constitution or Caesar?
07/07/07 Kura
07/05/07 How We Do Missions
07/04/07 Cessasionist or Continualist?
06/30/07 Recovering Paul's Perspective on Pastoral Leadership
06/30/07 We're Back!
05/27/07 John 3:16 and Me
05/24/07 Thoughts of a Roving Missionary
05/21/07 Creedal Or Deedal Orthodoxy?
05/14/07 Greek Student: Quo Vadis?
05/10/07 The Buck Starts Here
05/03/07 Loafs and Fishes
04/30/07 Living Church
04/26/07 Ride That Horse!
04/04/07 A Lesson in Teamwork
03/26/07 Doctrinal Blobdom
03/22/07 Interview with Alan Knox
03/16/07 Praying for the Lost
03/05/07 Smelling Ethiopia
02/22/07 Are You a Missionary?
02/19/07 Our Goals for 2007
02/15/07 Codependent No More!
02/13/07 Taking Care of Each Other (Part 2)
02/06/07 Taking Care of Each Other
02/05/07 Why I Love WMU Sunday
02/02/07 The Importance of Mentoring
01/29/07 Erecting Buildings (Part 2)
01/24/07 Emails from Alaba
01/20/07 Commemorating the Anabaptists
01/18/07 Erecting Buildings
01/13/07 A Definition of "Ministry"
01/11/07 Surprises from Heaven
01/08/07 Miracle in Alaba
12/14/06 Back to Africa
12/08/06 Aflame for the Gospel
12/03/06 Building in Bedene
12/03/06 A Gift at Christmas
11/26/06 Ethiopia Update (Nov. 26, 2006)
11/22/06 Evangelism: Show and Tell!
11/16/06 A Heart of Obedience
11/09/06 Sidetracked by "Issues"?
11/03/06 Scot McKnight on the Emerging Church
10/31/06 The Gift of Fixing Towel Racks
10/30/06 Why Not Open Sharing?
10/27/06 A Time to Rest
10/23/06 Silent Sufferers
10/19/06 The Seduction of Politics
10/14/06 Servers Win!
09/23/06 Partners in the Gospel
09/21/06 Gamblers for Christ
09/12/06 Truth and Love: Finding Our Balance
09/08/06 The Problem of Wineskins
09/04/06 The Joy of Volunteering
09/01/06 On the Road Again -- and Needing Your Prayers
08/31/06 Carpenters for Jesus
08/28/06 What I Learned During My First Semester in Seminary
08/25/06 Ethiopian Spring (May 2006): Part 5
08/18/06 Hurry Up and Relax!
08/17/06 Ethiopian Spring (May 2006): Part 4
08/14/06 How to Master a Foreign Language
08/08/06 Why God Loves the Cities
07/26/06 A Lesson from the Garden
07/25/06 Developing Biblical Convictions
07/14/06 Men From Among You
07/11/06 Letter to My Greek Students
06/30/06 Ethiopian Spring (May 2006): Part 3
06/27/06 Companionate Leadership
06/22/06 Ethiopian Spring (May 2006): Part 2
06/19/06 Ethiopian Spring (May 2006): Part 1
06/16/06 Our Supreme Business
06/10/06 Teaching Our Children Practical Skills
06/07/06 The Church No One Wanted To Join
05/25/06 Got Any Splanchna?
05/23/06 Honoring Our Wives
05/19/06 Return to Ethiopia
05/12/06 Watch That "I"!
05/10/06 Every Member an Evangelist
05/08/06 Graduate, Be Like Jesus!
05/04/06 Why Not Ecclesiology?
04/29/06 Every Member a Bible Scholar
04/20/06 The God of Ethiopia
04/18/06 Dressing Up the Truth
04/15/06 On and Off Christians
04/11/06 Every Lord's Day Is Resurrection Sunday
04/07/06 Yielding Our Unsurrendered Selves
04/04/06 Raising the Bar
03/21/06 The One Table of the Lord
03/02/06 Swimming on Dry Ground
02/25/06 Church as Meetinghouse
02/17/06 Ethiopia Report (Part 6): Going on from Here
02/14/06 Ethiopia Report (Part 5b): Visiting Deda
02/10/06 Ethiopia Report (Part 5a): Walking on Holy Ground
02/05/06 Ethiopia Report (Part 4): On to "Dusty" Alaba
02/01/06 Ethiopia Report (Part 3): Bible Conference in Soyama
01/26/06 Ethiopia Report (Part 2): Rural Ministry in the Burji District
01/23/06 Ethiopia Report (Part 1): Addis
01/20/06 The Great Need
01/19/06 How Tall Was Robert E. Lee?
12/11/05 Itinerary and Prayer Guide for the Blacks' Trip to Ethiopia
12/08/05 Christmas: Going On From Here
12/01/05 Why We No Longer Celebrate Christmas
11/29/05 No Place for Idleness
11/10/05 The Anabaptists and State Religion
11/03/05 Extending the Reformation
10/25/05 Greener-Pasture Pastors
10/13/05 Back to the Bible!
10/02/05 Female Bloggers
09/29/05 A Clock from Switzerland
09/07/05 What Time Is It?
09/05/05 Projects to Help the Lord's Church in Southern Ethiopia
09/01/05 Shining in the Darkness
08/30/05 To Blog Or Not To Blog?
08/28/05 Take the Gospels Quiz!
08/24/05 Followers of Jesus
08/23/05 Why Evangelize?
08/20/05 American "Values"
08/16/05 The Love of Teaching
08/15/05 Moody's Thirst for God
08/12/05 Whose Church?
08/11/05 How's Your Garden?
08/09/05 Why We Must Insist On Every-Member Ministry
08/07/05 The Value of Short Term Missions
08/05/05 Church Business Or Kingdom Business?
08/04/05 Why We Must Preach Jesus As Lord
08/02/05 Controversy for the Truth
07/31/05 Saying Goodbye to the Needs-Based Church
07/30/05 O, Ethiopia!
05/26/05 A Boy and a Basket
05/25/05 Trails and Temptations
05/22/05 Call Me a Biblicist If You Like
05/20/05 The Fashion of the Christ
05/17/05 Will You Pray for Ethiopia?
05/15/05 Hidden in Christ
05/12/05 Take the Bible Test!
05/11/05 Our Delinquent Generation
05/06/05 With a Mother's Love
05/04/05 Club Med Christianity
05/04/05 Let Pastors Teach
05/02/05 Every Member a Missionary
04/29/05 Every Member a Minister
04/28/05 Paper Perfect Churches
04/27/05 America's Harsh Winter
04/26/05 Bound by Conscience
04/23/05 What's In A Name?
04/21/05 Graders Who Don't Grade
04/16/05 The Bible Plus Nothing
04/12/05 Men Who Risk It All
04/05/05 Of Sheepdogs and Christians
03/31/05 A Fowl Lesson
03/28/05 Lee's Traveler - and Mine
03/27/05 How to Abandon New Testament Christianity in Ten Easy Steps
03/22/05 A Horse Named Cody
03/20/05 Enjoying Nature Without Worshipping It
03/15/05 Profs Without Borders
03/13/05 Building Christ's Church: His Way or Mine?
03/10/05 Borderline Christianity
03/08/05 "Azanaw" Becomes "Bereket"
03/06/05 Rejoice!
03/03/05 Ten Rules for Christian Bloggers
02/19/05 The Heart of a Secretariat
02/18/05 The Narrow Way
02/17/05 Eating Together
02/15/05 Restful Rushing
02/14/05 Living in Community
02/10/05 Non Scholae Sed Vitae
02/08/05 The Lord's Day Still Belongs to the Lord
02/07/05 The Scripture-Driven Church
01/31/05 That Powerful, Prophetic Pen
01/27/05 Is the Cost of Empire Worth It?
01/25/05 The Final Note
01/23/05 Our Readers Respond
01/18/05 Muggeridge and Me
01/16/05 Growing the Body of Christ through Evangelism and Edification
01/11/05 The Gospel of Hospitality
01/07/05 Romans 13 in Context
01/01/05 Beginning at the Beginning
12/24/04 A Christmas Story
12/24/04 Enter to Serve, Depart to Worship
12/23/04 Christianality
12/21/04 Remembering the Pilgrims
12/15/04 A Balm in Gilead
12/13/04 Reaching for the Moon
12/12/04 Should Christians Tithe?
12/11/04 Loving God - and Our Neighbors
12/09/04 Whose Traditions?
12/07/04 The Future of the Church
12/06/04 TV Or Not TV?
12/04/04 A Marriage Made In Hell
12/02/04 We Will Live To Regret It
11/26/04 The Sleeping Church
11/23/04 The Watchdog Is Alive and Well
11/22/04 America's Neo-Gospel
11/20/04 Hardly a Christian Nation
10/11/04 Adventures in Abyssinia
10/07/04 America's Crisis of Fidelity
10/06/04 Confessions of a Limping Theologian
10/04/04 Seizing the Root
10/01/04 How Much Lettuce in Hebrews 12:1-2?
09/30/04 Are You Praying?
09/29/04 Judging Riders - and Politicians
09/27/04 The Disciple Whom Jesus Kept On Loving
09/25/04 No Tactics of Accommodation
09/23/04 The God of Hope
09/21/04 To Whom Shall We Sacrifice?
09/18/04 A Place at the Table
09/17/04 Outside the Camp
09/13/04 Our Nation's Watchmen
09/10/04 My Horse, My Friend
09/07/04 Whose World Is It?
09/06/04 Why the Defection, Pat?
09/05/04 Schism
09/04/04 Nothing But A Heresy
09/03/04 Our Jealous God
08/31/04 Nehemiah's Prayer, and Ours
08/30/04 Lord of the Voting Booth
08/28/04 Christ or Caesar?
08/27/04 Merely Inconsistent Or Spiritually Dead?
08/25/04 Incurable Infracaninophiles
08/24/04 The Biggest Busybody
08/18/04 Politics: The Art of the Ought
08/16/04 See No Evil
08/09/04 The Indelible Stain of Congress
08/05/04 Rejecting the Feasts of Ahab
07/30/04 Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
07/26/04 Pessimist or Optimist?
07/23/04 Home Grown Pastors
07/22/04 Preaching With the Eleven
07/21/04 Equestrian Servants and Pedestrian Princes
07/15/04 Out of Africa
07/14/04 Will You Pray?
06/17/04 Diagnosis of a Kulturkampf
06/14/04 The Screen of the Scriptures
06/11/04 No Mistakes?
06/07/04 The Great Omission in the Great Commission
05/27/04 Chicken Love
05/25/04 The Truth About Terrorism
05/20/04 "Our Doctrine Is Not Right"
05/18/04 Speaking of Sovereignty
05/17/04 Are We Above the Law?
05/13/04 Mother's Day Reflections
05/12/04 Who Is To Blame?
04/27/04 The Federal Marriage Amendment: Cure-All Or Band-Aid?
04/26/04 Suffer the Little Children
04/22/04 Constitutionalists: Keep On Shining the Light!
04/14/04 Will the Draft Become the Most Important Issue in 2005?
04/01/04 The America I Love
03/31/04 With Or Without "Under God," the Pledge Is Still a Bad Idea
03/22/04 Europe Crosses the Rubicon
03/16/04 Remembering September 11
03/15/04 Packaged or Planted?
03/11/04 True Patriotism
03/09/04 The Real Lesson of Christ's Passion
03/05/04 Solus Christus, Sola Scriptura!
02/17/04 Our Corporate Bribery System
02/12/04 Whither America in 2004?
02/11/04 When Christians Oppose the State
02/05/04 Origen on the Authorship of Hebrews
01/09/04 Brethren, Let Us Return to New Testament Practices
01/06/04 Want to Reform Your Youth Ministry? Reject Adolescence!
01/02/04 Anabaptists and the First Amendment
12/26/03 Cleanliness Is Next to Impossible
12/19/03 Back to the Constitution!
12/15/03 Temples of Ceramic Deities
12/10/03 Once Again, the "Mistakes" of War Are Costing Us Our Credibility
12/04/03 The State Is Not Our Savior!
12/01/03 Needed: Saints With Edges On Them!
11/24/03 The Theory That Backfired
11/17/03 It's Nobody's Fault But Our Own
11/13/03 Prophetic Resistance as the Calling of the Church
11/05/03 The Man Who Stood Alone
11/04/03 Christianity on Trial
10/31/03 No Slack for Bush
10/30/03 Wer bin ich?
10/29/03 Dark Days for America
10/27/03 Groaning for Freedom
10/27/03 Are We Right?
10/22/03 No Virginia, America Isn't a "Christian Nation"
10/22/03 No More Excuses: Pastors Must Get Serious About Teaching Their Flocks
10/01/03 The Rise and Rise of American Power
09/24/03 Clueless Crybabies
09/16/03 The Price of Patriotism
08/21/03 Eat Or Be Eaten
08/19/03 In Praise of "Seabiscuit"
08/14/03 The Scandal of the "Great Society"
08/13/03 Mr. Bush, Tear Down This Wall!
08/12/03 The Great Evangelical Heresy
08/11/03 The Death of English
08/05/03 The Crisis Is Wider Than the Episcopal Church
08/01/03 Gibson's "The Passion"
08/01/03 If Only Bush Had the Moral Courage of the Pope!
07/30/03 There's a (New) World (Order) of Difference between Patriotism and Nationalism
07/28/03 The Myth of Republican Conservatism
07/27/03 The Only Hope for the World
07/25/03 A Sincere and Heartfelt "Thank You"
07/23/03 Marching with the Wrong Crowd
07/22/03 The Core Problem Is Not Political But Theological!
07/21/03 Three Cheers for Ben Curtis
07/14/03 Can You Name the Face?
07/10/03 Life on the Farm
07/10/03 Launching Your Own Website
07/07/03 The Dark Continent
07/07/03 Paul's Thorn in the Flesh - and Ours
07/06/03 The Disciple Whom Jesus Kept On Loving
07/05/03 Our Magnificent Constitution
07/04/03 Cracked Pots
07/01/03 Cleaning Up the Backyard
06/22/03 Questions for Leaders
06/19/03 The Me Generation
06/18/03 Resurrecting Dry-Bone Saints
06/12/03 This Flag Day, Remember Your True Country!
06/06/03 D-Day and the Limitations of Liberty
06/05/03 The Clergy Don't Need to Endorse Big Government!
05/31/03 Who Will Stand for the Truth?
05/30/03 The Selfish State
05/29/03 Life in the World
05/28/03 Rules for English Composition
05/27/03 Europe Is Still a Mission Field
05/26/03 Leviathan
05/08/03 Brokenhearted Joy
05/07/03 The Real Lesson of Bill Bennett
04/28/03 A Lesson from King Arthur
04/18/03 Exactly Which Constitution Are You Following?
04/13/03 The Genesis of the Gospels
04/08/03 The Blessing of Wiping Out
04/07/03 The Deity of Christ Under Attack
04/03/03 Doing One's Duty
03/26/03 Why I Love Marx (and the First Amendment)
03/21/03 The Iraqi War and Christian Convictions
03/19/03 War Must Never Be Trivialized
03/10/03 Joie de Vivre
03/07/03 America's Real Leaders
03/05/03 Remembering the People of the Towel
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The Literary Structure of 1 and 2 Thessalonians