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- making the choice to suffer
At the end of chapter 5 King Balshazzar is killed and the Babylonian empire falls. Chapter 6 marks the beginning of the Persian Empire.
I. The plot devised against Daniel (1-9)
Read vs. 3-5Who is Darius?
Who are the satraps, administrators, and Daniel?
They hate Daniel because he is doing such a good job. So they decide to come [...]
- Operational Definition of Student Leadership: James’ part
Indianapolis First Church of the Nazarene Indianapolis, IN
Mark Holcomb (now ONU Professor)
Indianapolis First Church of the Nazarene is a church of around 1000 regular attendees. Their youth ministry is a cell group based ministry, which meets in homes throughout the week. They also have a weekly gathering, which includes worship, drama and more. Their overall [...]
- electoral college website
As this election nears, this is a good site to keep an eye on.
- Operational Definition of Student Leadership: Jeff’s part
Grace Brethren Church Columbus, OH
(”The Rising”) (Mega church)
Call their area of student leadership: Forerunners. They take the idea of ‘giftings’ described in Ephesians 4 (i.e. evangelists, teachers) and say that students also have certain bents or giftings that the Lord has created them with. The challenge is for them to go the extra mile [...]
- a change of location
“OK, everyone in the van.”
With that I walked out of the church and got into Big Sexy. (The unofficial name for our church van) About a minute later the 5 members of my morning Bible Study had crawled into the van and we were off.
About 15 seconds later the first voice popped up and said, [...]
- a heck of a week ahead
It goes without saying that this is a crazy week. This is a wild, wacky crazy week! I have too much to do and not enough brain power to get it all accomplished. I h hope I can not only survive this week, but come out ahead.
Monday: Today I went down to the Toledo area [...]
- a nice little trip
We packed up the family Camry and drove down to see my sister-in-law and nephew for his 5th birthday. I am sad to say this is only the second time I’ve met Ryan. He is a really cool kid. He is a very typical 5 year old, annoying in every way. But fun nonetheless.
I am [...]
