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Lawn Care Tips And Proper Lawn Maintenance
...ore frequent knowledge. Study all you will find about lawn maintenance and be a student of this time that is past that is essential. ...name brand equipment in a charge that is discounted. Likewise, in regards for your lawn may very well not wnat to over-think factors. Way too many situat

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What Does It Mean to Be Mennonite? Amethyst Blankenship, April 2011
{{GoogleTranslateLinks}} ''Return to [[What Does It Mean To Be Mennonite; Goshen College; April 2011]]'' ...nites. And that tradition has been one of sorrow and sadness in times, but it also represents hope and love.

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Bearing One's Cross (in Mark)
...not crucify, and there has been no hint to this point that the Romans will be involved in Jesus’ coming passion. ..., so has Simon. But these events hardly explain how cross-carrying came to be part of the definition of discipleship. One needs to read the Gospel at a d

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Why I Am Mennonite, Matt R Rittenhouse, April 1999 (United States)
...dle Ages. We must look to our past, both heritage and doctrine, and apply it to modern day needs, issues and desires. As we discover our heritage and u ...place value on what I had been taught. I held onto ideas that I felt were correct and let go of those that do not apply. As I have studied the history and d

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Galatians
...not given Galatians as high a profile because of this tradition’s concern for the questions of conversion and new life (discipleship). However, recent st ...family life as a child of God, the Father (4:5-7). The practical teaching for faithful living in chapter 5 and 6 gives major focus to virtues and practic

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Offender Ministries (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1977)
...the Good News of salvation in Christ includes the proclamation of release for prisoners (Luke 4:18); <b>Be It Resolved</b> that we affirm this gospel and this ministry of our churches:

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1 & 2 Timothy
...nd second time. And whereas godliness (''eusebeia'') meant showing respect for the Roman and Greek gods, so godliness is the way Christians live by the tr ...mple. Household behavior of leaders, men, women and slaves was modified to be consistent with faith in Christ, but not taken so far that the church lost

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Mennonite Brethren Church Confession of Faith (1975)
...s are to be regarded as descriptive more than normative. They are never to be given equal status with the Bible. ...ge. The Mennonite Brethren Church accepts God's revelation in Scripture to be trustworthy and authoritative.

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Teaching the Bible in the Congregation, by Ross T. Bender
...r training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.” ...unquestioned. We turned to them for guidance for daily living and we found it.

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Hermeneutics and Discipleship
...in fact, the Anabaptists who brought hermeneutical issues to center stage for the reformers and whose different reading of the Scriptures led to their em It is clear that social, economic, personal, and political factors were involv

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1 & 2 Thessalonians
...Jesus’ faithfulness, even to the point of death on the imperial cross, and it is empowered by the Spirit of God. ...ngs that are included within the New Testament canon. It also deserves to be noted that this epistolary encounter between missionary pastors and this co

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Menno Simons' Encounter with the Bible
...st. No longer did he ask what the Church Fathers had said on an issue; now it was a question of what the Scriptures said. He had found a new authority.<s ...name and holy Word in purity” to the end that God’s truth and glory might be made known. That prayer was answered, first in that he was able to preach b

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Affirming Our Faith in Word and Deed (Mennonite Church, 1979)
...some central issues of Mennonite faith today. It is not a last word nor is it a definitive word, but is simply the completion of the work of the Affirmat ...s, significant revisions of the statement were made. This became the basis for congregational study and response. The revised statement was presented to t

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Deuteronomy
...the way of God. Sometimes referred to as "The Gospel according to Moses," it celebrates divine grace rivaled only by John's Gospel. ...Matt 22:34-40; cf. Mark 12:28-34; Luke 10:25-28). Indeed, a good case can be made that the logic of Jesus' two commandments are based on Deuteronomy (se

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Reflections on Biblical Hermeneutics
...ated his interest in hermeneutics as he sought to establish biblical bases for guiding the life and work of the church in the world. He gave careful atten ...ithin the ecumenical church and synagogue.<ref>In some respects a case can be made that the synagogue has been closer to the teaching of Jesus than has t

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Canon: Creative Biblicism as a Hermeneutical Principle
...composer and the compiler as well as the original author of the parts must be heard. This principle makes room for a phenomenon which Brevard S. Childs has called the Bible’s “own theolo

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Matthew
...reting and living the Scriptures. In Matthew they have heard Jesus calling for some of their most distinctive commitments, including believers baptism, pe ...the authors of Matthew and Luke each used a source that is now lost to us, it would explain why they share many sayings not found in Mark

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American Mennonites and the Bible, by C. Norman Kraus
...with that of the Fundamentalists were conscious of the dangers inherent in it. George R. Brunk was extremely critical of the “laxitarian” Fundamental ...the veiling of women for worship, or washing the saints’ feet. Neither may it adapt scriptural commands such as those against the wearing of gold in orde

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American Mennonites and the Bible
...with that of the Fundamentalists were conscious of the dangers inherent in it. George R. Brunk was extremely critical of the “laxitarian” Fundamental ...the veiling of women for worship, or washing the saints’ feet. Neither may it adapt scriptural commands such as those against the wearing of gold in orde

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The Hermeneutics of the Anabaptists
...ness of the closely related materials which appeared in MQR in April 1966. It is here reproduced with only minor modification and annotation, without att ...would of course mean that most other Christians would for the same reason be closed to all that they have to say—a most hopeless vision of the ecumeni

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