All People are Sinners, part 1
Is this a claim of faith or of reason? When Christians make divine revelation the point of departure for their thinking, this does not mean that they believe something nonsensical or that revelation is essentially […]
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One Lord, One Voice, One Body
Thoughts on Ephesians 4,1-6: A Devotional I just found my devotional for the General Assembly of the World Evangelical Alliance in Pattaya in October 2008 on my computer, originally published at http://www.ga08.org/devotionals/article.php?id=38 „. . .I […]
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Terry Jones, please read your Bible and do not place yourself in God’s position!
A comment by Thomas Schirrmacher, Chairman of the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance This blog entry is a supplement to the following German communication in Bonner Querschnitte, translated her from the German: The […]
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Dr. Reinhard Hempelmann creates a Basis for Discussions with Evangelicals
Frank Hinkelmann and Thomas Schirrmacher regarding a new Text by the Central Office for World View Issues (Evangelische Zentralstelle für Weltanschauungsfragen – EZW) of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) That the Evangelical Church can […]
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Regarding Mark A. Gabriel’s Call in factum’s 8/2009 issue for a new Arabic Translation of the Bible that excludes the Word “Allah”
Published in German in factum 1/2010 Letter to the editor regarding Mark A. Gabriel’s statement in the 8/2009 issue of factum that “Allah” has only been found in Arab-Christian literature since the 19th century In an interview in the 8/2009 […]
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Biblical Reasons for Evangelical Missions
MBS TEXTE 65 This propositions were presented as a common formulation of evangelical missiology to the tenth jubilee of the journal „Evangelikale Missiologie“ of the „Association of German evangelical missiologists“ (AfeM) in 1994 and published in the jubilee edition of this magazine as well as several other evangelical magazines in the German speaking world and the Netherlands. This is an updated version, making 31 propositions out of the original 30.
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Criminals and Murderers carve out a Career among God’s People
Christian forgiveness is so complete that in the Bible there are men and women with dark pasts who rise up to become premier role models and leaders.