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Pastoral Whiplash Syndrome: Five Causes

Pastoral Whiplash Syndrome: Five Causes

The metaphor has changed. For most of my ministry, we often referred to the up and down of pastoral ministry as a roller coaster. It made sense. One day the pastor will celebrate five new believers in Christ. The next day the pastor is met by a long-term church member who is leaving the church…

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Global Mission In Pentecostal Perspective

Murray W. Dempster, Byron D. Klaus And Douglas Petersen, Eds., Called & Empowered  Global Mission In Pentecostal Perspective (Peabody, MA  Hendrickson Publishers, 1991), 321 Pp. $14.95 Paper

113 Murray W. Dempster, Byron D. Klaus and Douglas Petersen, eds., Called & Empowered: Global Mission in Pentecostal Perspective (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1991),…

Why does the man who marries a divorced woman commit adultery, if the last husband committed adultery by remarrying?

Why does the man who marries a divorced woman commit adultery, if the last husband committed adultery by remarrying?

In the gospels, Jesus says whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another commits adultery, and whoever marries her who has been divorced commits adultery.
Matthew 5:31-32:

It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces…

What is חֶמְדַּת נָשִׁים in Daniel 11:37

What is חֶמְדַּת נָשִׁים in Daniel 11:37

Daniel chapter 11 speaks of the Willful king that will profane the temple and persecute the Jews. One of the many descriptions given to him is found in verse 37,

וְעַל-אֱלֹהֵי אֲבֹתָיו לֹא יָבִין, וְעַל-חֶמְדַּת נָשִׁים
וְעַל-כָּל-אֱלוֹהּ…