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Thursday, April 28, 2011

New Paradigms for Cultural Engagement: A Review of "To Change the World."

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This week, I'm at the Exponential conference in Orlando, the largest gathering of church planters in the world. As is usually the case ...
Thursday, April 07, 2011

Why Maryland Should Grant In-State Tuition Benefits to Illegal Immigrants

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If you want to see tempers flare up quickly on both sides of a volatile issue, just start a conversation about illegal immigration. If ever...
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Monday, March 28, 2011

Passing the Baton: Ensuring an Ongoing Church Planting Strategy

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This is my last installment on the subject of how to facilitate effective church planting in the Baptist Association. This post also covers...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Tom Elliff Speaks to the Parents of Missionaries

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Ideas, as Francis Shaeffer once said, have consequences, and this statement is never more true than when contemplating the result of promoti...
Monday, March 14, 2011

To Fund or Not to Fund: The Question of Financial Support in Church Planting

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Former President Ronald Reagan had a particularly narrow philosophy when it came to the idea of government funding. He expressed it in thre...
Saturday, March 12, 2011

Repost: Making Love and the Glory of God

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Pastor Douglas Wilson correctly and graphically observed a couple of weeks ago that our culture is doing to sex what people who chew with th...
Sunday, February 27, 2011

Developing a Support System for Church Planting

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Over the past couple of weeks, I've been writing posts related to a presentation I gave to Directors of Missions at the NoBA conference ...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Why Evangelicals Lost the Gay Marriage Debate

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As I write these words, Senate Bill 116 is making its way through both houses of the Maryland legislature. Predictions are that both the Se...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Creating a Culture for Planting Churches, Part II

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In my last post, I stressed the need for a culture-shift within Associations of churches that results in a high priority on the multiplicati...
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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Creating a Culture for Planting Churches, Part I.

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My maternal grandfather passed away when I was six years old. Even at that young age, my early experiences with him left an indelibly posit...
Monday, January 31, 2011

The Strategic Role of Associations in Church Planting

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As I mentioned in my last post, I'll be spending the next few weeks on this site talking about effective church planting in the local ...
Monday, January 24, 2011

Church Planting Systems and Baptist Associations

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Two weeks ago I was invited to lead a session at the NoBA annual conference for Directors of Missions at Southwestern Seminary on Effective...
Friday, January 21, 2011

Slander Among the Saints: John MacArthur, Darrin Patrick, and the Need for Godly, Older Examples

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John MacArthur needs to repent! That's a strong statement, I know. And before I explain why I feel this is the only appropriate respons...
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Dr. Joel Rainey is an imperfect, but growing follower of Jesus Christ, husband to Amy, father of three, and Lead Pastor at Covenant Church, Shepherdstown, West Virginia. He serves on the adjunct faculty of two seminaries, and the author of three books.
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