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Salad bowl not melting pot
The image we might prefer for the Bible’s portrait of the nations is not a melting pot (in which differences are blended together into a sinle allow) but a salad bowl (in which ingredients preserve their distinctive colour, texture and taste.) The new creation will preserve the rich diversity of the original creation, but be…
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First modern missionary
Between 1627 and 1640, 15,000 people emigrated from England to America, most of them Puritans, carrying this great confidence in the worldwide reign of Christ. In fact, the seal of the colonists of Massachusetts Bay had on it a North American Indian with these words coming from his mouth: “Come over into Macedonia and help…
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In his letter to a
In his letter to a predominantly Gentile church in Ephesus Paul applies the promise of the inheritance of the land specifically to Gentile children of Christian believers who are obedient. Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. "Honour your father and mother"–which is the first commandment with a promise "that it…