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Holiness and active participation in meeting the needs of others have always gone hand in hand. In the Old Testament, God called His people to be a source of healing and light to the nations: not just in doctrinal purity, but in service to those who were in need.
In the Levitical law, for…
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I was overcome with shock, grief, and uncertainty as I listened to our pastor of 17 years announce that he had accepted a call to another church. As I stole the occasional glance around the sanctuary, it looked as though the rest of the congregation had a similar reaction. After the service,…
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A good friend of mine is a sailor. By sailor, I don't mean someone who pilots motor-powered boats. He is a purist who prefers the song of the winds filling the sails to the din and throb of a motor in his boat.
Once while sailing in Florida's Tampa Bay, he somehow sailed outside the currents and…
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"Are you sure that's what you want?" The voice within my mind was firm but gentle.
"Oh yes Lord," I replied, "I want more than anything to be consumed by you, by the fire of your presence."
"You do understand fire, don't you?" the Lord replied.
"Of course I understand fire," I replied…
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Kitty Voges has spent 22 years as personal secretary to the Africa Regional Director, and also manages the Africa Regional Office. She is married to Peet Voges, the World Mission Communications coordinator for that region. The Voges have three grown sons.
Q. Where were you born and raised?
A.…
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Andrew Twibell from Muncie, Indiana, is a senior biology/pre-med major at Olivet Nazarene University (ONU) in Bourbonnais, Illinois. He is serving his second year as the ONU student body president and has been elected as the co-chair of the Nazarene Student Leadership Association. After graduation…
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Q: Sometimes I've heard preachers talking about God waiting for a certain amount of prayer before He'll meet a need, such as church growth or bringing a lost child to salvation. That sounds a lot like we have to do works to persuade God to act in grace. How can that be?
Your question raises an…
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The First General Assembly of the Church of the Nazarene in 1907 emphasized the vital role the Sunday School plays in the lives of people: "It is necessary that each teacher be in possession of 'perfect love' as a definite experience, that each pupil may have a living object lesson." The Sunday…
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Statistics are part of the Church of the Nazarene. The groups that united at Pilot Point had kept meticulous records for years. At each annual assembly, leaders carefully preserved membership data, finances, and even lay leader addresses.
Church leaders studied this information to gauge the spread…
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Family stories are wonderful ways of transmitting family history and heritage across generations. Can you imagine what it must have been like to be a Hebrew child listening to the ancient tales of the great heroes of Israel? Every evening when the sun sank low and the evening stars began their…