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Resources For "Devoted" Series From Each Harderwyk Preacher I. New For This Week Paul's Missionary Journeys - Acts 13-20 - The Bible Project - CLICK HERE for a 5-minute video overview of the central events and organizing theme - Paul's Missionary Journeys -of the rest of our Acts series. The "Category-Defying" Christian Commiunity - In this 5-minute video, Rev. Tim Keller picks up one of the themes from the Bible Project video - though without animation - mentioned above: Why in the world did people become Christians in the first centuries when the church was severley persecuted.  CLICK HERE for that YouTube.  This video is part of a 9 part playlist comprised of brief segments from a single presentation done by Keller called How To Reach The West Again.  All are worth seeing. The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name by Sally Lloyd-Jones - Don't get this book for your children or grandchildren.  Get it for yourself.  Read all the stori...

Resources For "Devoted" Series From Each Harderwyk Preacher I. New For This Week "I Forgive you."  Relatives of Charleston church shooting vitcims address Dylann Roof - CLICK HERE for the Washington Post article from that day.  If you would be willing to gather in a small group to watch and discuss the documentary Emanuel that tells the story of Nadine Collier and other family of the Charleston Church shootings, please contact Pastor Bill by calling the Harderwyk office or emailing him at Bill@Harderwyk.com. Five Features That Made the Early Church Unique - CLICK HER E for a brief book review by Tim Keller on the recent books of Larry Hurtado, including the one I mentioned, Destroyer of the gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World.  CLICK HERE for Amazon link. II. From The Commentaries On This Passage NT Wright on Herod Agrippa from Acts For Everyone “This latter feature of the period—Rome relying on the local aristocracy (such as it was: nobody a...

Resources For "Devoted" Series From Each Harderwyk Preacher I. New For This Week How To Reach The West Again - Tim Keller  -  Resources that Harderwyk pastors are studying and using as we plan for ministry post-COVID. “To clarify, a missionary encounter is not a withdrawal from culture into communities with little connection to the rest of society.  Nor is it an effort to secure political power in order to impose Christian standards and beliefs on an unwilling populace.  Nor is it an effort to become so “relevant” that the church becomes completely adapted and assimilated into the culture.” “Instead, a missionary encounter connects (unlike strategies of withdrawal), yet confronts (unlike the strategies of assimilation), and therefore actually converts people (unlike all the strategies, including those of political domination).  And while critiquing all the other strategies at a fundamental level, a church embarked on a missionary encounter does maintain its dist...

Resources For "Devoted" Series From Each Harderwyk Preacher I. New For This Week Good News!  The Vikings Became Lutherans - CLICK HERE for the story of how these fearsome maurauders became believers. Your Bible Is Not An Encyclopedia by Paul David Tripp - CLICK HERE for a helpful post on how to read the Bible as it was intended so you can receive the Good News that God means to communicate. II. From The Commentaries On This Passage From F.F. Bruce in Acts: Bible Study Commentary   “If it was necessary for Cornelius to be instructed by a heavenly messenger to invite Peter to visit him, it was even more necessary for Peter to be prepared for Cornelius’ invitation. Cornelius had no religious scruples to overcome before inviting a Jew into his house, but Peter had strong scruples which would have prevented him from accepting such an invitation. These had to be removed, and their removal could be effected only by divine authority, for they were part and parcel of Peter’s ances...