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Posts from ‘March, 2009’

Riches in Christ: Meditations on Eph. 1:3-14

My last three Twitter updates:

Grateful for God’s glorious grace (Eph 1:6), which is my only hope and what should receive my praise and glory.
Grateful for God’s predestination of me, a personal act done in love (not cold & Impersonal) as He adopted me as His son (Eph 1:4-5).
Eph. 1:3-14: the most power-packed sentence in the [...]

‘Does your church HAVE a counseling ministry or IS your church a counseling ministry?’

I recently listened to a presentation with this title given by Steve Viars, pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Lafayatte, Ind., at the 2002 National Association of Neuthetic Counselors (NANC) conference.
NoutheteĊ is a Greek word meaning, “the training by the word, whether of encouragement, or, if necessary, by reproof” (”An Expository Dictionary of New Testament [...]