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 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 September 21, 2009 by Disciple Nations Alliance
The following blog is the final installment 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.
The modern evangelical church, instead of providing a worldview that will challenge the tragic impoverishment of the animistic and materialistic paradigms, has largely withdrawn [...]
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Posted on August 26, 2009 by Disciple Nations Alliance
Finally, Darrow Miller’s new book is available for purchase and immediate shipment! Through August 31st, you have the opportunity to buy this book at a deep discount of $8.95. Anyone who desires the Church’s deeper impact in all areas of society should own, study, and share this book.
In addition to the long-awaited book, comes MondayChurch.org [...]
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Posted on June 22, 2009 by Disciple Nations Alliance
During my senior year of college I sensed God’s call to work with the poor. I attended the Urbana missions conference that year (1987), and while there applied (and was later accepted) to serve overseas with Food for the Hungry. Sometime during the spring of 1988, I met with the missions committee of the evangelical [...]
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Posted on June 8, 2009 by Disciple Nations Alliance
On May 20, Dr. Ralph Winter, veteran missionary to Guatemala and missions activist extraordinaire, went to be with the Lord.
Among his many achievements, Dr. Winter, along with his wife Roberta, founded the U.S. Center for World Mission in Pasadena, and helped found the popular missions training program, Perspectives on the World Christian Movement, or “Perspectives” as it [...]
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Posted on May 26, 2009 by Disciple Nations Alliance
We live in a space and time universe. In any season of life we occupy both space, the place where we are standing, and time, the second on the watch, the moment in time. In my life, it has been far easier to occupy space than to occupy time.
I have been collecting a number of [...]
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