faithmaps.org

My primary website was down for a couple of days, but now it’s back up.

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dj chuang: “ALL South Korean hostages are now released!”

“[update 8/30/07 15:56:02 GMT] According to Reuters, witnesses have confirmed Afghan Taliban free 4 more Korean hostages and TALIBAN FREE THE THREE REMAINING KOREAN HOSTAGES IN AFGHANISTAN! AP wire reports Final South Korean Hostages Freed.” – link Let us thank God for their release, pray for the recovery of the hostages as their reintegrate into [...]

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Mark D Roberts is Moving On

Author and well-known pastor-blogger Mark D. Roberts has announced that he is resigning his position at Irvine Presbyterian Church to become Senior Director and Scholar-in-Residence at Laity Lodge in Kerrville, TX. In addition to his practical pastoral experience, Mark definitely has the academic credentials for such a position with a B.A. in philosophy, a M.A. [...]

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MSNBC: “Taliban militants free 8 South Korean hostages”

“QALA-E-KAZI, Afghanistan – Taliban militants released eight South Korean hostages on Wednesday, the first of 19 captives scheduled to be freed under a deal struck between the insurgents and the South Korean government.” – full story Pls continue to pray. – Wikipedia background to the crisis

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How to Handle Failure

By now you might have seen the video of the beauty pageant contestant poorly answering a question. Surely an embarrassing moment. And it’s easy to two-dimensionalize this young woman into merely a joke. But just as you and I are not to be defined by our greatest failure, our most embarrassing moment, or our greatest [...]

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Reuters: ” Taliban says to free all 19 South Korean hostages”

” Taliban insurgents said on Tuesday they would release 19 South Korean Christian volunteers they have been holding for nearly six weeks.” Earlier South Korea‘s presidential Blue House issued a statement saying the agreement was on condition it withdraw its troops from Afghanistan within the year and stopped its nationals doing missionary work there.” Please [...]

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New design for prolegomena

UPDATE:  I had the wrong picture!  The real Kenny is pictured below! My Baltimore breakfast buddy, Johns Hopkins Ph.D. candidate (Philosophy,History), and all around great Canadian friend Kenny Sheppard has redesigned prolegomena ; take a look!

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Good Thoughts on Time Management

Limit exposure to email through the day. Take regular breaks from blogging. Cut off external communication when at home. Take all the time off you have. Craig: “I’m spending more time with God and learning to do ministry from His power and not mine. That sounds basic, but I’ve needed to work on this. Instead [...]

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Michael Morrell is now Blogging

I was really surprised to read that Mike Morrell was only now beginning to blog in earnest! But when I checked my bloglines‘ feeds I discovered that, sure enough, I didn’t have one listed for Mike. I was surprised because Mike and Philip Scriber have been prominent in the emerging church blogosphere for a long [...]

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Mother Teresa’s Agony

“Together they suggest a startling portrait in self-contradiction – that one of the great human icons of the past 100 years, whose remarkable deeds seemed inextricably connected to her closeness to God and who was routinely observed in silent and seemingly peaceful prayer by her associates as well as the television camera, was living out [...]

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