Posted on November 9, 2009 by Disciple Nations Alliance
October 15th, 2009
Extracted from Darrow Miller’s Memoirs during his recent visit to teach in Peru.
I have been encouraged and gratified by the numbers of people who have come up to me to say that they have read Discipling Nations or have attended a conference, and about the impact that the school of thought has had [...]
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Posted on November 4, 2009 by Disciple Nations Alliance
One ministry that learned of our work has started to send me their periodic updates via email. When I received this newsletter, I wanted to share and highlight what they have been learning and the impact they’re having on the world around them with you. At Romanian Orphan Ministries, they have been learning about the [...]
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Posted on November 2, 2009 by Disciple Nations Alliance
For the church to be a positive force in creating healthy, prosperous and free societies, it must recover an understanding of the Cultural Mandate found in Genesis 1:26-28 and 2:15. Darrow describes the Cultural Mandate in his new book LifeWork this way:
What God made in Genesis chapter 1 was perfect, but it was not finished [...]
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Posted on October 29, 2009 by Disciple Nations Alliance
A friend of mine recently returned from Afghanistan where he worked as a consultant for a major relief and development organization. While spending the night at a Christian guest house in Kabul, he saw sitting on a coffee table, a lesson from the Disciple Nations Alliance “Worldview and Development” curriculum that had been translated into [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2009 by Disciple Nations Alliance
Vishal Mangalwadi will be on Hank Hannegraaff’s “The Bible Answer Man” radio program Thursday, October 8 and Friday, October 9. Here’s what Hank recently wrote about the book:
Every now and then I come across a book that is “must reading!” And that is precisely what happened this week. The book, titled Truth and Transformation, was [...]
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Posted on September 23, 2009 by Disciple Nations Alliance
Many are familiar with the saying that “The greatness of a society is measured by how well that society cares for the weakest human life.” I find myself reflecting on this regularly during the shifts in our nation. As I continue to work on our ongoing project, The 13 Transforming Truths, I was struck by [...]
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Posted on September 17, 2009 by Disciple Nations Alliance
The following blog is fourth in a six-part series on worldview and work taken from Darrow Miller’s new book LifeWork: A Biblical Theology for What You Do Every Day.
Billions of people in the developing world are also dying to hear this open invitation from the Creator and Savior of the universe. Unaware of their [...]
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Posted on September 4, 2009 by Disciple Nations Alliance
The following blog is first in a six-part series on worldview and work taken from Darrow Miller’s new book LifeWork: A Biblical Theology for What You Do Every Day.
Most adults in the Western world spend half of their waking hours at work. In many developing countries, the number of hours spent at work is even [...]
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Posted on August 31, 2009 by Disciple Nations Alliance
I enjoyed reading “Whatever Happened to the Work Ethic? The financial bust reminds us that free markets require a constellation of moral virtues” by Stephen Malanga. Darrow talks extensively about the Protestant work ethic that can help impoverished peoples understand the biblical worldview that lifts people out of poverty and toward a culture of beauty, [...]
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