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During the summers of my junior high years in Springfield, Oregon, my father would take my brothers and me to the University of Oregon Hayward Field where “all-comers” track meets were held. Anyone could purchase a ticket, or number of tickets, to compete in various track events.
The Twentieth Century Methodist missionary and theologian, E. Stanley Jones shared a very strong message that we enter the kingdom of God personally, but we live it corporately.
That is essential. Salvation is, of course, individual. Christ calls each of us to a personal decision to make Him…
"You are my refuge and my shield; I have put my hope in your word." Psalm 119:114
We are encouraging supporters to pray for NBC students every week! (Check it out on Facebook: bit.ly/LoveofScripture )…
There's a verse of scripture tucked away in Psalm 139 that I know I've read many times, but I heard it maybe for the first time not long ago. The interesting thing is I heard it not while I was reading the scripture, but I heard this verse in my spirit not in a sermon or a Bible study. I…
The Lord's prayer, or the Our Father as it is sometimes called, is more -- much more -- than something to be memorized for points in Vacation Bible School. Jesus gave it to His disciples when they realized how inadequate their prayer lives were in comparison to His.
These few short phrases…
The lectionary readings for the week of March 30 come from Joshua 5, Psalm 32, 2 Corinthians 5, and Luke 15. We’ll take a peek at each of them in a moment. But before we do, I want to suggest there’s a common theme that runs through the four texts. That theme is “Pursuing…
What do we want NBC students to hear? First, I hope, is a clear call from God. One of the texts that students can choose in the initial preaching class at NBC is Isaiah 6. Isaiah 6:8 says “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And Isaiah said, “Here am I. Send…
Clarence and Roger Bowman are notable figures in the history of Black Nazarene Ministries. They have contributed significantly to the development of strategies for reaching Black communities through church planting and discipleship programs, and Clarence and Roger were both professors at Nazarene…
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