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Cultivating Christlike Intercultural Relational Competency
Cultivating Christlike Intercultural Relational Competency:A Christ-Centered TEAM ApproachRevelation 7:9-10Many of you have asked to hear more about my presentation on intercultural (multicultural) ministry. Here's an outline.Presentation ObjectivesThe primary goal of...
Join the Journey!
Join the Journey!I invite you to join me on a forty-day intercultural journey of promise. I will be blogging during the forty days from Martin Luther King Day on January 19, 2009, to the end of Black History Month on February 28, 2009. Our focus will be: The Journey:...
Faith and Football
Faith and FootballOriginally From: Faith Still at Core of Warner's SuccessCardinals Quarterback Goes Out of His Way to Credit God by Paola Boivin - Jan. 9, 2009 12:00 AM"If you ever really want to do a story about who I am, God's got to be at the center of it. Every...
A Prayer for the Body of Christ
A Prayer for the Body of ChristApril Boycik is a former student of mine and a lifelong friend. Her prayerful response to my posts on intercultural ministry, with her permission, is posted below."Lord,Let me plug in and serve together with whom you would have me serve,...
Toward a Description of Intercultural Ministry/Relating
Toward a Description of Intercultural Ministry/RelatingIn the old game show, Name That Tune, contestants would say, "I can name that tune in ____ notes" (the lower the number of notes, the better). Well, I canNOT name the "tune" of intercultural (or multicultural or...
Just How Biblical Is Intercultural Ministry?
Just How Biblical Is Intercultural Ministry?I've been working on a new presentation on Cultivating Christlike Intercultural Relational Competency: A Christ-Centered TEAM Approach. Of course, if it is Christ-Centered, then it is going to be everywhere in the Bible,...
Bushisms
BushismsIn today's blog, I veer from my focus of comprehensive, compassionate, culturally-informed posts designed to equip you to change lives with Christ's changeless truth.Instead, a little levity to start the year right.These "Bushisms," or jangled speeech of...
Christ All-Sufficient
Christ All-SufficientThe following Puritan Prayer from The Valley of Vision reminds us of the glorious grace of Christ.All thy lovingkindness is in thy Son,I bring him to thee in the arms of faith,I urge his saving name as the one who died for me.I plead his blood to...
God All-Sufficient
God All-SufficientThe following prayer is from The Valley of Vision, a collection of Puritan prayers."O Lord of Grace,The world is before this day,And I am weak and fearful,but I look to You for strength;If I venture forth alone I stumble and fall,but on the Beloved's...
Pros and Cons of The Shack
Pros and Cons of the ShackThough I read, and then re-read, The Shack once I heard all the "buzz," and though I intended to write a review (I have over 350 reviews on Amazon.com and have actually made it in the top 200 Amazon reviewers--out of over 5 million), I still...
