January 2009
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Teaching the New Testament
I received word from the team in Moldova this week that my main task will be teaching the courses on the New Testament. I would call myself “the instructor of New Testament” except that the morning before I found out I had read Matthew 23:10 in my devotions. The Bible Institute is a three year program. Students will have a 5 hour New Testament course every semester. This means they will...
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“I want to argue that our feeble and irregular prayer, especially in its...”
– David Wells from “Prayer: Rebelling Against the Status Quo” in Perspectives on the World Christian Movement: A Reader
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More on Moldova
Moldova is a small country, slightly larger than Maryland, in Eastern Europe bordered by Romania to the west and the Ukraine to the east. From 1940 to 1991, Moldova was a Soviet Socialist Republic. Today, like many of the former Soviet Socialist Republics, the people of Moldova are struggling to find prosperity in independence. The poorest country in Europe, 80% of Moldovan men are unemployed,...