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Habakkuk’s Song of Thanksgiving in Time of Calamity

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  • Laurens Roth

Trusting God in the face of calamity is not easy. When you know that things are not looking good, what should you do? God is faithful, which is the anchor that kept Habakkuk. It will keep you too, as this meditation shows.

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A Pastoral Approach to the Trauma Coping Process

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  • E. Brink

This article is about trauma and providing spiritual guidance to the victim of trauma. The author looks at the example of Job.

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When Trauma Comes to Church

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  • Judy Dabler

This article reminds the church that Christ has provided us with the resources that are needed to help people who have experienced trauma of one kind or another. The author offers several specific tips for dealing with trauma.

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Why Panic Is the Devil's Friend

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  • Leah Baugh

What fills your mind and heart when you face a crisis or experience pain? Many people panic, doubt God or are filled with fear. This article argues that when you face a crisis or pain in your life you need to consider the past instances where God demonstrated his power, so that your faith in Christ may be able to shine bright even in this hopeless world.

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PTSD and People: Maintaining an Accurate Anthropology (Part 1)

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  • Greg Gifford

This article offers clear and practical instruction, based on biblical principles, to help those caring for people who are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The author seeks to show the interconnectedness of body and soul.

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Where Is God in All of This?

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  • Beverly Moore

The author shows how 1 Peter, along with other Bible passages, helps believers to gain perspective on their suffering, so that in their suffering they come to know God in his love, mercy and grace.

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Judging God

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  • Beverly Moore

This article addresses the natural tendency to judge God when we’re suffering, and gives advice on how to lead people to trust in him.

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Speaking Through Silence

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  • Lilly Park

The author makes the point that those who are suffering are comforted by the silent presence of fellow believers.

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Learning from King David’s Mid-Life Failure

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  • Jim Newheiser

This article identifies David’s fall into sin with Bathsheba as a consequence of his “midlife crisis,” and draws some lessons that can be learned, to help men who are experiencing such a crisis.

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Understanding a Man’s Middle Age Crisis (Part 2)

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  • Mark Shaw

This article offers an assessment of what has been called "midlife crisis," which affects men in middle age and is characterized by regret over past decisions and dissatisfaction with the life situation those decisions have created. The author offers clear a biblical understanding and approach.

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Understanding a Man’s Middle Age Crisis (Part 1)

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  • Mark Shaw

This article offers a description of what has been called "midlife crisis," affecting men in middle age, characterized by regret over past decisions and dissatisfaction with the life situation those decisions have created.

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Maddening Injustice

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  • Anne Dryburgh

Injustice, especially in the church or in the Christian community, can provoke a crisis of faith. In this article, the author addresses the anger that is so often the natural response to injustice.

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The Blindside of Suffering

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  • Adrian Martinez

This article provides a biblical perspective on suffering. It is intended to equip those who minister to believers who are enduring some kind of trial.

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Trauma and the Significance of Meaning

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  • Dave Dunham

This article addresses the struggle of a person who has suffered trauma to find meaning in his or her experience. It provides advice for those who are called to come alongside those who suffer.

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A Loving Father Disciplines Those He Loves

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  • Betty-Anne VanRees

This article reminds those who are going through a crisis that God uses suffering as discipline to train believers in faith and holiness, and that discipline is confirmation of his love for them.

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Biblical Storm Tips after Harvey

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  • Kevin Hurt

Reflecting on a very destructive hurricane (Hurricane Harvey) that struck the Houston, Texas (U.S.) area in 2017, the author offers biblical insights and encouragement for surviving the storms of life.

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Help to the Hurting: A Response to the Shooting in Las Vegas

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  • BCC Staff

This article was written in the aftermath of a mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada (U.S.) in 2017. It includes a list of thirty-six revealed purposes of God in his people’s suffering. The list, together with the Bible references, will be useful in caring for believers who are experiencing a crisis.

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Basics for Discipleship in Suffering

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  • Andrea Lee

This article provides sound biblical advice for providing discipleship to those are suffering.

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Trusting God in the Storms of Life

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  • Shannon K. McCoy

This article draws on Scripture to encourage those who are undergoing trials to trust in God.

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Two Gifts of Indomitable Joy

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  • Pat Quinn

The author encourages those experiencing tribulation by directing them to the joy that Christ holds out to believers.

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When Your Trial Seems Impossible

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  • Kevin Carson

This article provides solid biblical encouragement to those who are undergoing heavy trials.

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Gospel Guidelines to Guard against Greed-Driven Gluttony

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  • Donn Northup

This article discusses the eating disorder known as gluttony, and addresses the spiritual dimensions of this issue. It identifies the unbelief and sin, as well as the hope that is given in the gospel.

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The Prodigal Son, the Elder Brother, and the Bulimic

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  • Steve Hoppe

This article discusses the eating disorder known as bulimia, and addresses the spiritual dimensions of this issue. It identifies the unbelief and sin, as well as the hope that is given in the gospel.

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The Impact of Anorexia on a Family (Part 1)

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  • Ellen Castillo

This article discusses the eating disorder known as anorexia, and addresses the spiritual dimensions of this issue. It identifies the unbelief and sin, as well as the hope that is given in the gospel. Anorexia can precipitate relationship- and life-threatening crises.

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Three Foundational Truths to Fight Our Fears: A Meditation on Isaiah 41:8-10

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  • Robert Jones

Fear is an instinctive response to crisis. This article reflects on the words of Isaiah 41:8-10, to give a biblical perspective on the crisis, and the comfort of God’s promises.

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Face-to-Face with Poor Health

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  • Jason Hsieh

This article reports that serving others has been shown to be helpful therapy for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress. The author notes that this lines up with biblical teaching about serving others.

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New Research: Volunteering Gives Purpose and Help to Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress

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  • Charles Hodges

This article reports that serving others has been shown to be helpful therapy for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress. The author notes that this lines up with biblical teaching about serving others.

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PTSD: When It Comes to Finding Help, Choice Matters (Part 4)

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  • Charles Hodges

This article offers practical instruction for helping those who are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. The author affirms the importance and benefits of biblical counseling.

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Counselling Complex Traumatic Relationships (Part 3)

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  • Rachel Rosser

This article offers clear and practical instruction, based on biblical principles, to help those who are counselling individuals with Complex Post Traumatic Stress, a kind of post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Restoring Hope: Crisis Counselling for PTSD (Part 2)

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  • John Foldberg

This article offers clear and practical instruction, based on biblical principles, to those counselling people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. The author provides a common course of counsel in such cases.

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Caring in Crisis: Beyond the Counselling Office

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  • Betty-Anne VanRees

In this article, the author provides clear biblical insight and instruction for helping those who are caught up in a crisis.

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Pastoral Care: In Crisis and When It’s Chronic

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  • Dave MacDonald

This article offers some general insights and principles for providing care for people in crisis, and when the critical needs of members become chronic.

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Meeting the Needs of People in Crisis

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  • LifeWay

This article provides basic, practical advice that will be helpful for office-bearers and members who have the opportunity to minister to fellow believers dealing with a crisis in their lives.

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The Tower to Which the Righteous Run Suffering and the Sovereignty of God

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  • Tim Trumper

God is sovereign in preventing suffering, ordaining it, sharing in it, deploying it, and in terminating it. These are biblical truths that the believer should recall when facing suffering.

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Caring for the Christian Family: The Times of Crisis

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  • John R. Sittema

How do you show care to Christian families in crisis? There are five principles that must guide pastoral care to families in crisis. 

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God’s Gift of Pain Another Way of Seeing what the Saviour went Through

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  • Hans Voschezang

Though pain is not something we like, this article shows that pain is God’s gift.

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    • Christian mind
    • Conviction and tolerance
    • Discernment
    • Christian lifestyle
    • Responsibility & Collective Responsibility
    • Compromise
    • Conflicting obligation
    • Conscience
    • Impartiality
    • Justice
    • Tradition and accomodation
    • Wisdom and prudence
    • Ethics of Christian Community
    • Indifferent things (Adiaphora)
    • Submission
    • Self-denial and Hedonism
    • Temperance and Abstinence
    • Virtue
    • Worldview
    • Vocation
    • Truth and lying
  • Doctrine of life - Ethical themes
    • Gender - Role of manhood and womanhood
    • Sexual Ethics
      • Sexual Ethics - General
      • Homosexuality
      • Premarital Sex
      • Sex Education
      • Lustfulness and Chastity
      • Pornography
    • Dating and Singleness
    • Marriage and Family
      • Marriage (General)
      • Family (General)
      • Adoption
      • Procreation and Family Planning
      • Adultery
      • Celibacy
      • Childhood
      • Adolescence
      • Young Adulthood (Twenties and Thirties)
      • Middle-Age (Forties and Fifties)
    • Divorce and remarriage
    • Education (General)
      • Christian education
      • Purpose of Education
      • Discipline
      • The child
      • Child development
      • Theories of Education
      • History of Christian Education
    • Parenting
    • Schooling
      • Teaching and Learning (General)
      • The Christian school
      • Home schooling
      • Teaching methods
      • The Curriculum and Evaluation
      • The Teacher
      • The School Board
      • Parents and the School
      • Church and the School
      • Place of Government in Education
    • Friendship
    • Hospitality
    • Economics
      • Economics (General)
      • Code of ethics for economists
      • Economic Theories
      • Development
      • Income Distribution
      • Inequality
      • Scarcity
      • Sustainability
    • Work & Employment
    • Business Ethics
      • Trade Unions and Strikes
      • Wages and Salaries
      • Prices
      • Labour Standards
      • Minimum Wages
      • Business Ethics (General)
      • Corporate Social Responsibility
    • Wealth & Poverty
      • Money and Possessions
      • Tithing
      • Generosity
      • Borrowing and Lending
      • Poverty
      • Consumerism
      • Taxes
      • Gambling
      • Prosperity gospel
    • Environmental Ethics
      • Environmental Ethics (General)
      • Energy and Energy Consumption
      • Global Warming
    • Public Ethics
      • Public Ethics (General)
      • Human Rights
      • Equality and Discrimination
      • Race and Racism
      • Nationalism and Patriotism
      • Judicial System
      • Crime and Punishment
      • Capital Punishment
      • Social welfare
      • Social gospel
    • Political Ethics
      • Government - Role and Responsibility
      • Democracy
      • Civil Disobedience and Revolution
      • State and Church Relationship
      • War and Peace
      • Terrorism
      • Genocide
      • Pacifism
      • Nuclear Weapons
      • Interrogation and Torture
      • Refugees and Genocide
      • Political involvement
    • Christ and Culture
    • Bioethics
      • Bioethics (General)
      • Genetic Engineering
      • Cloning
      • Reproductive Technologies
      • Prenatal Diagnosis
      • Contraception
      • Surrogate Father/Mother
    • Medical ethics
      • Medical Ethics (General)
      • Health
      • Illness
      • Disabilities
      • Health Care
      • Forgoing and Withdrawing Treatment
      • Organ Donation and Transplantation
      • Definition of Death
      • Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and Letting Die
      • Abortion
      • Sterilization
      • Late Miscarriage & Stillbirth
      • Epidemics
    • Beauty and Arts (General)
    • Appearance
    • Visual Arts
    • Music
    • Drama and Cinema
    • Food and Food Consumption
    • Media and Censorship
    • Sabbath and Sunday
    • Recreation and entertainment
    • Speech and Communication
    • Sport
    • Time Consumption and Priorities
    • Other topics
  • Spirituality & Godliness
    • Fear of the Lord & Godliness
    • Spiritual exercises
    • Means of grace
    • Prayer
      • Prayer - General
      • Intercession
      • God answering prayers
      • Practice of prayer
      • Bodily posture in prayer
      • Private prayer
    • The Lord's Prayer
      • Lord's prayer - General
      • Beginning and Conclusion of Lord's prayer
      • First petition - Hallowed your Name
      • Second petition - Your Kingdom come
      • Third petition - Your will be done
      • Fourth petition - Give us today our daily bread
      • Fifth petition - Forgive us our debts
      • Sixth petition - And lead us not into temptation
    • Fasting
    • Meditation
    • Singing
    • Listening to sermons
    • Personal Devotions (General)
    • Reading of Spiritual Literature
    • Family worship
    • Preparation for home visitation
    • Christ and the new life
    • Personal relationship with God
    • Walking with God
    • Spiritual warfare & struggle against sin
      • Spiritual warfare (General)
      • Struggle against Temptation
      • Living with Hope
      • Desertion by God
      • Place of sin in the believer's life
      • Spiritual growth and backsliding
    • Sanctification of the whole life
    • Spirituality and experience
    • Gratitude
    • Blessedness
    • Different Fruit of the Holy Spirit
    • Different Fruit of the flesh
    • Heavenly mindedness
    • Joy in the Lord
    • History of Spirituality
  • Worship & Liturgy
    • Principles of Worship
      • Principles of Worship (General)
      • Worship as Communion with the Triune God
      • Worship as Communion with the People of God (General)
      • Worship as Gathering and Communion of the Local Church
      • Worship as Communion with Young and Old
      • Worship as Communion with the Church of all Ages and Places
    • Elements of the worship service
      • Liturgy - General
      • Call to worship and Salutation
      • Confessing of sin and assurance of pardon
      • Praise in music and song (General)
      • Public Prayer
      • Scripture reading
      • Preaching (place in worship service)
      • Gifts and offerings
      • Corporate confession of faith
      • The Amen
      • Sacraments in the worship service
      • Benediction
    • Different Liturgies
    • Church music
      • Musical instruments
      • Character and principles of church music
      • Musicians
      • Psalms as songs
      • Hymns
      • Church choir
      • History of church music
    • Liturgical year
      • Liturgical year (General)
      • Christmas
      • Good Friday
      • Easter Sunday
      • Ascension Day
      • Pentecost
    • Church architecture
  • Church Leadership and Offices
    • Church leadership (General)
    • Offices - General
    • Pastor/Preacher - General
    • Pastor/Preacher - Qualifications
    • Pastor/Preacher - Task
    • Pastor and his wife and family
    • Theological Training
    • Elder - General
    • Elder - Qualifications
    • Elder - Task
    • Deacon - General
    • Deacon - Qualifications
    • Deacon - Task
  • Preaching
    • Preaching (General)
      • Preaching, election and the free offer of the gospel
    • Principles of Preaching
    • Purpose and Function of Preaching
    • Types of Preaching
    • Preaching Method and Sermon Preparation Process
    • Sermon Evaluation
    • History of Preaching
    • Preaching style and delivery
    • Steps for making a sermon
  • Pastoral care
    • Principles of Pastorate
    • House Visitation
    • Confidentiality
    • Psychology
    • Care in Abuse and Neglect
      • Abuse - General
      • Spiritual Abuse
      • Sexual Abuse - General
      • Child Sexual Abuse
      • Clergy Sexual Abuse
      • Spousal Abuse
      • Elder Abuse
      • Emotional and Verbal Abuse
      • Ministry to Abusers
    • Care in Addictions
    • Care in Conflict and Bad Relations
    • Care in Depression
    • Care in Self-Esteem and Inferiority
    • Care in Anger
    • Care in Anxiety
    • Care in Crisis
    • Care in Psychological illnesses
    • Care in Autism
    • Care in Loneliness
    • Care in Aging
    • Care in the Dying Process
    • Care in Grief
    • Care in Burial Practices
    • Care with Last Will and Testament
    • Care in Honouring and Grieving the Dead
    • Care in Suicide
    • Other themes of Pastorate
  • Youth ministry and catechism
    • Principles of Youth ministry
    • Material for Youth ministry and catechism
      • In Thy Hands Children Material
        • In Thy Hands Part 1
        • In Thy Hands Part 2
    • Public profession of faith
  • Church Government
    • General Principles of Church government
    • Church Order
      • Purpose and observance of the Church order
      • Offices
      • Church Assemblies - General
      • Church Assemblies - Consistory
      • Oversight of doctrine and worship
      • Church Discipline
      • No Lording
    • Different systems of Church government
    • Church government and civil government
  • History & Church History
    • Church history - General
      • Historical writing
    • Church history - Early Church
      • Ignatius of Antioch
      • Constantine the Great
      • Council of Nicea
      • Cyprian
      • Cyril of Alexandria
      • Didache
      • Early Church (general)
      • Gregory of Nazianzus
      • Irenaeus of Lyons
      • Basil the Great
      • Jerome
      • John Chrysostom
      • John of Damascus
      • Justin Martyr
      • Marcion
      • Melito of Sardis
      • Clement of Alexandria
      • Augustine
      • Polycarp
      • Athanasius
      • Patrick of Ireland
      • Origen
      • Tertullian
    • Church history - Middle Ages
    • Church history - Reformation
      • Theodore Beza
      • Ulrich Zwingli
      • William Tyndale
      • Reformation in The Netherlands
      • Renaissance
      • Zacharius Ursinus
      • Reformation in Germany
      • Reformation in France
      • Reformation in England
      • Reformation in Eastern Europe
      • Reformation (General)
      • Philipp Melanchthon
      • Peter Vermigli
      • Martin Luther
      • John Knox
      • John Calvin
      • John a Lasco
      • Hugh Latimer
      • Heinrich Bullinger
      • Guido de Bres
    • Modern Church History
      • Church history - Asia
      • Church history - Europe
      • Church history - Africa
      • Church history - South America
      • Church history - North America
      • Church history - Oceania
    • Different theologies
      • Charismatic theology
      • Evangelical
      • Roman Catholic
      • Reformed
      • Five points of Calvinism
  • Defending the faith (Apologetics)
  • Mission & Evangelism
    • Biblical Basis of Missions
    • Missions and Evangelism
    • God as Missionary God
    • Missions as Work of God
    • Missions and the Glory of God
    • The Great Commission
    • Missions and local church
    • Missions and every believer
    • Church growth
    • The Missionary
    • The Mission Board
    • The Sending Church
    • Missions and Money
    • Short-term Missions
    • Mission Training
    • Missions to Children and Youth
    • Different Mission Approaches
    • Trends in Missions
    • History of Missions
    • Missionary and Culture
    • Missionary and Politics
    • Missions - Word and Deed
    • Missions and the Social Gospel
    • Mission, election and the free offer of the gospel
    • The Message in Missions
    • Mission and the Point of Contact
    • Prayer and Missions
    • The Mission Encounter
    • Boldness in Missions
    • Material to use in Missions
    • Missions and the New Convert
    • Worship in the Mission Field
  • Other religions
    • Relationship between Christianity and other religions
    • Islam
    • Cults
    • Judaism
    • Jehovah's Witnesses
    • New Age
    • African Traditional Religions
    • Atheism
    • Other religions (General)
    • Sects (General)
  • Faith & Science
    • Faith & Science (General)
    • Evolution
  • Philosophy & Culture
It is for the Word to form and reform the church; it is for the church to keep and keep the Word J. I. Packer
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