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For week of August 2, 2009
Issue 263
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“Keep
my steps steady according to your promise, and never let iniquity
have dominion over me. Redeem me from human oppression, that I may
keep your precepts.” Psalm 119:133-134
CONSIDER
“They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak
up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and
I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew...Then they came for the
Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then
they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.”
Martin Niemöller, German theologian and pastor (1892-1984)
THE
MOST DANGEROUS PLACE IN AMERICA
by Dave Gibbons
The suburban enclaves -- with their
middle-class citizens and well- manicured lawns, gates and guards
protecting their Orwellian lifestyle and toys, Starbucks a few
minutes from each busy intersection, and some of the best schools
in the country -- may actually be the most dangerous places to
live. We may not have the high murder counts or robberies that
urban centers have, but I wonder if the suburbs have become
breeding grounds for the accessible and shallow thrills of drugs
and alcohol abuse, extravagant parties and proms, and mere facades
of happiness and the American dream. Just ask your local city drug
dealer about his primary consumers: suburban teenagers and college
students.
I’m not a researcher, but my gut
impression from my travels and interactions with youth in the
major cities of the world, as well as in suburbs and rural
communities, is that they are all equally dangerous, just in
different ways.... Read this in full at
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/outofur/archives/2009/07/the_most_danger.html
WELL PRESERVED
“The ancient Jews and the early Christians spread God's
message by making copies of the original writings -- and copies of
copies. No one had a Xerox machine, of course, or a laser printer,
so copies were made slowly and meticulously by devout scribes.
These copyists were obsessed with accuracy. Every letter was
carefully copied, every line checked and rechecked. Old Testament
scribes counted every letter of every biblical book, and each new
copy had to come out exactly right or they started over from
scratch.
“God in his watchfulness has allowed
hundreds of these ancient copies to survive. We have fragments of
copies made just a few years after the originals were written. But
even with meticulous care, occasionally a word would be dropped or
two letters mixed up. By comparing the manuscripts, however, we
can easily determine the correct reading. Less than 1% of the text
of the New Testament is even questioned -- that's one word in
4,000! Furthermore, no major teaching of the Christian faith rests
on a disputed or doubtful reading. ‘Defend the Bible? I
would just as soon defend a lion,” Charles Spurgeon says.
‘Just turn the Bible loose. It will defend itself.’"
from Christianity for Blockheads: A User-Friendly Look at What
Christians Believe by Douglas Connelly and Martin Manser
TEXAS BAPTISTS
TEST-LAUNCH STATEWIDE BIBLE DISTRIBUTION PLAN
Baptists in El Paso, Texas, are distributing nearly 250,000
CDs containing selected Scripture passages and Christian
testimonies in a pilot launch of a campaign to share the gospel
with every un-churched person in the state by Easter 2010.
Texas
Hope 2010 is the brainchild of Randel Everett, executive director
of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. The project aims to
put bilingual multimedia discs into all of the state's 8.8 million
homes.
"We want to make sure every person in Texas
has an opportunity to respond to the gospel of Christ, regardless
of their ethnicity, language or socioeconomic status,"
Everett said.
Each disc includes the Gospel of John in
English and Spanish that can be played on either a CD player or a
computer. Those with computers can watch video testimonies of
individuals describing the difference Christ makes in their lives.
With Internet access, they can link to a website where they can
download the New Testament in any of more than 350 languages and a
24/7 live online chat about becoming a Christian.... Read this in
full at
http://www.abpnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4264&Itemid=53
TEXAS DEBATES
ADDING RELIGION TO US HISTORY CURRICULUM
The Texas Board of Education is debating whether to modify its
American history curriculum to acknowledge the influence that
religion had on the country’s founding. Supporters of
amplifying the religious aspects of U.S. history in Texas public
schools argue that it is simply telling the truth about how
America was founded.
Peter Marshall, an evangelical minister
and president of Peter Marshall Ministries, is one of six experts
appointed by the Texas Board of Education to review the state’s
social studies curriculum. Marshall says the “foremost
problem” he sees with the current curriculum is that it does
not give enough credit to “the biblical motivations of
America’s settlers and founders. Our children need to know
the truth about how our country got started,” Marshall said
to ABCNews.com.... Read this in full at
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20090730/texas-debates-adding-religion-to-u-s-history-curriculum/index.html
Also
see
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=8166798&page=1
WHAT PRICE
KNOWLEDGE?
by
Chuck Colson
Most of us have used expressions like “Faustian
bargain” and “selling your soul to the Devil.”
That, unfortunately, is all we know about the legendary Dr. Faust
and the transaction that turned his name into an adjective.
“Unfortunately,” because Goethe’s poem
articulates, in dramatic form, parts of the human experience that
still—if you’ll pardon the pun—bedevil us today:
our longing for freedom from any kind of authority, our thirst for
knowledge, and our desire to bend nature to our will.
Faust,
however, is a hard read, which is why you need a guide like my
friend Ken Boa and his Great Books Audio CD Series. As Ken tells
his listeners, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe didn’t invent the
character of Dr. Faust. The German legend of the man who sold his
soul for knowledge dates back to at least the 16th century.
In
the age of the Reformation, the story of Faust was seen as an
object lesson and a warning. But in Goethe’s era, the
Enlightenment, Faust was a prototype of man’s ideal
aspirations. Faust had become a symbol of man’s emancipation
from authority. His salvation no longer mattered -- what mattered
was his courage in seeking to obtain previously unobtainable
knowledge.... Read this in full at
http://www.breakpoint.org/commentaries/11988-goethes-faust
IMAGINE A NEW
FUTURE
“In
1941, in a village in Nazi-controlled Poland, a young man came
home to discover that his father had died while he was at work.
What made his father's death exceedingly more unbearable was that
several years earlier, both this young man's sister and mother had
died. As he held his father's dead body in his arms, he lamented,
‘I'm all alone. At twenty, I've already lost all the people
I've loved.’
“One writer described it like
this: ‘Ripped out of the soil of his background, his life
could no longer be what it used to be. He now began a journey to
deeper communion with God. But it didn't come without tears, and
it didn't come without what seems to have been a certain
existential horror.’
Suffering can do that to us.
We're jolted, kicked, prodded, and shoved into new realities we
never would have brought about on our own. We're forced to imagine
a new future because the one we were planning on is gone. And that
young Polish man? His name was Karol Jozel Wojtyla, but later in
life he was known as Pope John Paul II.” from Drops Like
Stars by Rob Bell
RECORD
ONE MILLION IN ONE MONTH
For the first time, Global Media Outreach (GMO) saw over 1
million people indicate decisions for Jesus Christ in one month.
In June, 1,030,581 people indicated either a first-time decision
to follow Jesus or a decision to recommit their life to Christ
through one of more than 90 GMO Gospel websites.
Whether
by mobile phones or computer, millions of people continue to go
online to seek God every day. GMO has seen the number of people
indicating decisions for Jesus on their Gospel websites triple
over the last year.... Read this in full at
http://www.alrcnewskitchen.com/eblast/others/090715_gmo.htm
POLL: MORMONS
MOST LIKELY TO BE OFFENDED BY HOLLYWOOD
Mormons are the faith group most likely to say Hollywood
threatens their values, followed by Jehovah's Witnesses and
evangelicals, according to a new study by the Pew Forum on
Religion and Public Life.
The survey showed more than
two-thirds of Mormons (68%) rebuffed the entertainment industry,
followed by 54% of Jehovah's Witnesses and 53% of evangelicals.
Less than half (42%) of the general population said Hollywood
threatens their values.
In contrast, majorities of all
other major religions disagreed that stars and the silver screen
are a moral threat.... Read this in full at
http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2009/07/poll-mormons-most-likely-to-be.php
SPIRITUAL PROFILE
OF HOMOSEXUAL ADULTS PROVIDES SURPRISING INSIGHTS
The gay and lesbian population, which constitutes about 3% of
adults, has garnered national attention in the past several years
thanks to issues like gay marriage, gay adoption, and other gay
rights conflicts. In the wake of those controversies and the
spotlight aimed at gays, Americans have developed numerous
assumptions about the lives of the homosexual population.
According to a new survey by the Barna Group that explores
the spiritual life of gay and lesbian individuals, a majority of
the spiritual measures studied revealed statistically significant
differences between “straights” and “gays.”
Although most adults affirm the importance of faith in
their life, regardless of their sexual orientation, straight
adults (72%) were more likely than gay adults (60%) to describe
their faith as “very important” in their life. And
even though most Americans consider themselves to be Christian,
there is a noticeable gap between heterosexuals who self-identify
that way (85%) compared to homosexuals (70%). Another gap was then
noted among those who say they are Christian: about six out of ten
heterosexuals say they are absolutely committed to the Christian
faith, compared to about four out of ten among homosexuals....
Read this in full at
http://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/13-culture/282-spiritual-profile-of-homosexual-adults-provides-surprising-insights
GOD CALLS ME TO
REST ON HIS TRUTH
“I sure am glad I have my own Jesus. If I didn't have my
own personal walk with him, my life would be one giant vat of
emotion, a tempest tossing me from one whim to the next. Which is
why I have learned I need my own Jesus -- my own relationship with
the Lord of all creation. I can't live by what I feel but by the
truth God's Word reveals.
“This last line may sound
familiar because it's part of the bridge in East to West -- a song
I wrote about learning to accept and live in the reality of God's
forgiveness. The lyrics describe where I've been in my walk with
Jesus over the past few years. No matter how many times my old
life comes haunting, God calls me to rest on his truth and not on
what I feel or think.” from Your Own Jesus: A God Insistent
on Making It Personal by Mark Hall of Casting Crowns with Tim Luke
GOD’S
CHISEL
When
God chisels the dead weight out of our lives it can be very
painful. In one of their most requested skits, Tommy and Eddie
give a creative look at a typical believer having to go through
the process of discipline. See the video at
http://www.tangle.com/view_video?viewkey=849dc7c803281df74bb2
BRITISH ACTOR
BEST KNOWN AS AGATHA CHRISTIE’S ’HERCULE POIROT’
NARRATES AWARD-WINNING STORY BIBLE
British
Emmy Award-winning actor David Suchet is the voice behind the new
audio recording included in the Deluxe Edition of The Jesus
Storybook Bible -- Every Story Whispers His Name by bestselling
author Sally Lloyd-Jones, available in October.
The
popular storybook Bible has become a favorite for readers of all
ages -- pastors are using it to help them preach, children,
seniors couples young families, educators, and even theologians
are reading it. The Jesus Storybook Bible has sold close to
200,000 copies since releasing in March 2007 and has consistently
appeared on the CBA Bestseller list.... Read this in full at
http://www.assistnews.net/STORIES/2009/s09070125.htm
TV AND PARABLES
OF OUR TIME
The
radio program Speaking of Faith explores television as a center of
storytelling in US culture -- and listen in on intriguing,
important themes of our time being played out in a new generation
of shows like Lost, The Wire, House, and Battlestar Galactica that
now have eternal life online. Guest Diane Winston appreciates good
television, studies it, and brings many of its creators into her
religion and media classes at the Annenberg School for
Communication at the University of Southern California.... Listen
to this program at
http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/2009/tv/
VERSE TO PONDER
“I will hasten and not delay to obey your commands.”
Psalm 119:60
CONSIDER
“The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to
understand. But we as Christians are a bunch of scheming
swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we
know very well that the minute we understand we are obliged to act
accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget
everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God,
you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined.”
Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher, theologian, and
ethicist (1813-1855)
BORNEO
MISSIONS PIONEER AND NEW TRIBES CO-FOUNDER DIES
Robert "Borneo Bob" Williams, who planted hundreds
of churches in Indonesia over a 70-year ministry died July 29 in
Fresno, California, at the age of 98. He also was one of the three
founders of New Tribes Mission, now one of the world's largest
missionary movements.
Williams and his late wife Rena
began their missionary career in Indonesia (then known as the
Dutch East Indies) in 1939. Over the next six decades he
established schools, clinics, a small boat ministry and a seminary
that has trained and sent out hundreds of native Indonesian
pastors, teaches and evangelists.
His life story was
recently chronicled in the book, A Promise Kept - the 70-year
Ministry of Borneo's Jungle Evangelist.
Williams was born
on November 27, 1910, and first came to faith at an Aimee Semple
McPherson crusade in his native Denver. He and Rena were married
in 1930 and attended LIFE Bible College in Los Angeles before
joining forces with evangelist Paul Rader and his Courier
Ministry. Rader introduced them to Dr. Robert Jaffray, one of the
most influential leaders in Asian missions for the Christian &
Missionary Alliance.... Read this in full at
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09070217.htm
CHURCH-STATE
GROUPS CONCERNED ABOUT NOMINATED ARMY SECRETARY
Organizations that advocate the separation of church and state
say they are concerned about President Obama's pick as Secretary
of the Army.
Brent Walker, executive director of the
Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, said July 30 that
US Rep. John M. McHugh, a five-term Republican from New York, has
a voting record that shows he is no friend to religious liberty.
Walker said McHugh, who is expected to be confirmed at the
conclusion of hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee,
has a background that is "generally well-suited for the job,"
but his voting record "raises serious questions about his
understanding of the constitutional restraints on government in
matters of religion." .... Read this in full at
http://www.abpnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4272&Itemid=53
FAMILIES OPT FOR
INTERNET OVER FOOD, FAMILY TIME?
During the current economic recession, is your family more
reluctant to cut back on the grocery bill or the Internet bill?
In a survey of 500 British families, the Internet got
priority over food, and it wasn't even close. The survey by the
British Internet provider O2 showed that given several options,
67% of families were more reluctant to cut back on the Internet
bill than they were on school uniforms (59%), family vacations
(30%) and the weekly grocery bill (24 percent).
The
survey, O2 said in a release, provides insight into "what is
regarded as essential and what is regarded as discretionary"
spending by modern British families. But American families might
agree, too, according to a recent survey by the Center for the
Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School for Communications.
That June poll shows that as household Internet usage has
increased, family time has decreased.
According to the USC
Annenberg survey of 2,000 U.S. households, the percentage of
people who say they spend less time with household members since
being connected to the Internet grew from 11% in 2006 to 28% in
2008. The total hours per month devoted to family time had
changed, too, from an average of 26 hours per month during the
middle of the decade to 17.9 hours per month in 2008.... Read this
in full at
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=30974
LOOKING UP WHEN
THE ECONOMY IS DOWN
Contrary to Newsweek’s claim about the decline and fall
of Christian America, evangelical churches around the globe are
thriving. Pastors at charismatic, Pentecostal and other
evangelical churches say that as people are suffering the effects
of the financial downturn, houses of worship are experiencing
dramatic rises in attendance.
Although many evangelical
churches have experienced steady growth in the last decade,
pastors say they haven’t seen this kind of upsurge since
hippies disenchanted with the 1960s and 1970s counterculture
discovered the original revolutionary -- Jesus Christ.... Read
this in full at
http://charismamag.com/index.php/features/2009/july/22266-looking-up-when-the-economy-is-down
CHRISTIANS
CHALLENGED TO BE MORE PROACTIVE IN STRENGTHENING MARRIAGE
With the institution of marriage weakening in American
society, Christians are left with three options. "They can
yield to the trends devaluing marriage. Or they can admit defeat
in society but try to maintain traditional teachings inside the
church. Or they can swim against the current and insist that both
church and society lend a hand in strengthening marriage,"
says Alan Wisdom, vice president for Research and Programs at The
Institute on Religion and Democracy.
IRD released a new
paper touting the social value of traditional marriage and taking
stock of the debate about its future in U.S. society. The paper is
part of the Institute's "Mount Nebo" series which offers
an overview, "from an orthodox Christian perspective,"
of public policy issues, and suggestions on how Christians should
engage them.... Read this in full at
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20090729/christians-challenged-to-be-more-proactive-in-strengthening-marriage/index.html
GORDIAN 'KNOT'
FOR EVANGELICALS
by Julia Duin
The problem with evangelicals, author Mark
Regnerus says, is that they value marriage less than individual
freedom, which is why their 20-somethings are encouraged to get
out in the world, travel and find themselves before marrying. As a
result, he says, young evangelicals are marrying later -- if at
all, but 80% are having premarital sex. All the abstinence pledges
in the world, he adds, aren't going to change this. Early marriage
will...
A lot of people warn against early marriage,
saying it leads to early divorce, poverty and greater odds of a
poor match. It does provide an answer to raging hormones and
allows women to have their children in their 20s rather than
waiting until their less fertile 30s and 40s....I just wish that
evangelical pastors would deem unacceptable the current ratio of
serious Christian men to women and that married church members
would do far more to help their single friends find mates. ....
Read this in full at
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/30/gordian-knot-for-evangelicals/
DIVORCE TAKES
HEALTH TOLL THAT REMARRIAGE CAN'T HEAL, STUDY SAYS
Divorce causes more than bitterness and broken hearts. The
trauma of a split can leave long-lasting effects on mental and
physical health that remarriage might not repair, according to new
research. "People who lose a marriage take such damage to
their health," said Linda Waite, a sociologist at the
University of Chicago in Illinois.
Waite and co-author
Mary Elizabeth Hughes, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, found that divorced or widowed people have 20% more
chronic health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes or
cancer than married people. They also have 23% more mobility
limitations, such as trouble climbing stairs or walking a
block.... Read this in full at
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/28/divorce.marriage.health/index.html
IS THE GAY
MARRIAGE DEBATE OVER?
by Mark Galli
In short, traditional Christians feel like
the armored tank of history is rolling over them, crushing
traditional marriage under its iron treads, impervious to
argument, the ballot box, or judicial logic. Even more
disheartening has been to witness how, in each mainline
denomination, and even in some evangelical seminaries, fellow
Christians lobby hard for gay marriage.
The depressing
feeling of inevitability is precisely what advocates of gay
marriage want to instill in their opponents. But relying as many
do on historical determinism—"Side with us because
we're going to win"—suggests that gay marriage
advocates have run out of arguments. It also demonstrates
historical amnesia. Arguments from historical inevitability have
often been assumed by millions—to take two examples, the
inevitability of Communism and the death of religion—and yet
have proven to be wrong.
Still, we are at our wits' ends
about what to say next, impervious as the gay marriage juggernaut
is. We know biblically and instinctively that "male and
female he created them," and that these complementary sexual
beings are designed to become one flesh. We know that this
spiritual instinct and biblical argument will not make much
headway in the public square. So what do we say? .... Read this in
full at
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/july/34.30.html
10 THINGS YOU
DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE APOLLO 11 MOON LANDING
2009 marks the 40th anniversary of humankind's first steps on
the moon. Auspiciously timed is Craig Nelson's new book, Rocket
Men--one of the most detailed accounts of the period leading up to
the first manned moon mission. Here are ten little-known Apollo 11
facts unearthed by Nelson during his research.
1. The
Apollo’s Saturn rockets were packed with enough fuel to
throw 100-pound shrapnel three miles, and NASA couldn’t rule
out the possibility that they might explode on takeoff. NASA
seated its VIP spectators three and a half miles from the
launchpad.
2. The Apollo computers had less processing
power than a cellphone.
3. Drinking water was a fuel-cell
by-product, but Apollo 11’s hydrogen-gas filters didn’t
work, making every drink bubbly. Urinating and defecating in zero
gravity, meanwhile, had not been figured out; the latter was so
troublesome that at least one astronaut spent his entire mission
on an anti-diarrhea drug to avoid it.... Read this in full at
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/2009-06/40-years-later-ten-things-you-didnt-know-about-apollo-ii-moon-landing
DISPUTED
QUOTE
Armstrong: “That's one small step for (a) man; one
giant leap for mankind.”
[At the time of the
mission, the world heard Neil say "That's one small step for
man; one giant leap for mankind". As Andrew Chaikin details
in A Man on the Moon, after the mission, Neil said that he had
intended to say 'one small step for a man' and believed that he
had done so. However, he also agreed that the 'a' didn't seem to
be audible in the recordings. The important point is that the
world had no problem understanding his meaning. However, over the
decades, people interested in details of the mission - including
your editor - have listened repeatedly to the recordings, without
hearing any convincing evidence of the 'a'. In 2006, with a great
deal of attendant media attention, journalist/ entrepreneur Peter
Shann Ford claimed to have located the 'a' in the waveform of
Neil's transmission. Subsequently, more rigorous analyses of the
transmission were undertaken by a number of people, including some
with professional experience with audio waveforms and, most
importantly, audio spectrograms. As of October 2006, none of these
analyses support Ford's conclusion. The transcription used above
honors Neil's intent.]
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.step.html
OBAMA: I PRAY ALL
THE TIME NOW
President Obama says he starts his day with a devotional that
the director of his Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
initiative, Pentecostal pastor Joshua DuBois, sends to his
BlackBerry each day. And though he was in the habit of praying
every night before going to bed, Obama says since becoming
president, he prays “all the time now.
“I've
got a lot of stuff on my plate and I need guidance all the time,”
he told ABC News' Terry Moran in an interview for “Nightline.”
“I think that every president who’s had [this job] is
constantly humbled by the degree to which there are a lot of
issues out there and the notion that one person alone can solve
all these problems I think you're cured of that illusion very
quickly,” Obama added. “This is something where you
just hope that you are aligning your work with His purposes and
that you're attuned to the needs of the people you're there to
serve.”
Prior to winning the presidency, Obama had
informed the public that Christ “is a source of strength and
sustenance on a daily basis” for him.... Read this in full
at
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20090726/obama-i-pray-all-the-time-now/index.html
CONSIDER
“The safest road to Hell is the gradual one- the gentle
slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without
milestones, without guideposts.” C. S. Lewis
VERSE TO PONDER
“Good will come to him who is generous and lends freely,
who conducts his affairs with justice.” Psalm 112:5
ON PRAYER
“How
far away is heaven? It is not so far as some imagine. It wasn’t
very far from Daniel. It was not so far off that Elijah’s
prayer, and those of others could not be heard there. Christ said
when ye pray say, ‘Our Father, who art in heaven.’ Men
full of the Spirit can look right into heaven.” D. L. Moody
PRAY
FOR PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS TODAY
http://christiansincrisis.net/
DAILY BLESSING
PACT
Use
the following list as your daily prayer guide. Think of a brother
or situation that applies and lift them up in prayer.
I am
agreeing in prayer with you for God’s blessings to overtake
you!
PERSONAL
Marital harmony
Family unity
Children
saved
Faithful pastor
Spirit-filled church
Real
friendships
Relatives redeemed
Educational
benefits
Recreational time
Fulfilling career
Favor with
God and man
Be in God’s will
FINANCIAL
Better
Jobs
Raises or bonuses
Benefits
Sales &
commissions
Business Growth
Settlements
Estates &
inheritances
Investment increase
Rebates &
returns
Checks in the mail
Gifts & surprises
Money to
be found
Bills decrease while blessings increase
"And
all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou
shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God" (Deut.
28:2).
[As you travel on business or vacation, let me know
if you'd like the church guys to pray for your safety and
spiritual effectiveness. I'll add your name to the list for the
time you'll be away.]
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announcements, news, recommendations, articles, and other
information helpful to men in our spiritual growth. Thanks for
welcoming CONNECTIONS into your in-box!
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The
CONNECTIONS Team offers a variety of activities for men to
interact with other men on our journey of faith in Christ
together. Large group, small group, and one-to-one events
encourage relationship building and spiritual strengthening that
result in maximizing the potential we all have in Christ.
Contact
Min. Frank Coleman, 773-410-1483, [email protected]
if you'd like to participate in a men's discipleship program.
Path Of Life Ministries is located at 6459 S. Campbell Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629.
Visit our website at:
http://www.pathoflifeministries.net/
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