Darrow Miller
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Footings for Children is a curriculum for those who teach children in after-school clubs, Sunday schools, camps, and even home devotionals. It is designed to be adapted and applied in any cultural context, including settings where teaching aids and tools are limited.
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Category Archives: Cultural Mandate
What I Learned About BEAUTY from Edith Schaeffer
Our good friend Nancy Pearcey wrote a brief eulogy for Edith Schaeffer, who died March 30 in Switzerland. Edith taught us both about the apologetics of beauty. Nancy’s post by that title tells it much better than I can. What most impressed … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, Cultural Mandate, Culture
Tagged art, beauty, Christianity, Edit Schaeffer
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Create Something on Earth to Hang on Heaven’s Wall
When I was in school, my teachers in two subjects taught me the concept of transposition. In math we learned to move a number and its sign from one side of the equation to another. In music we learned to … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, Cultural Mandate, Culture, Discipleship, Great Commission, Kingdom, Music
Tagged earth, heaven, transcendent, transposition
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Why Christian Couples Should Have Children
Some time back I was talking to a young man who had married about a year earlier. The conversation turned to children and he remarked that they weren’t sure they were going to have kids. I gently reminded him that … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Mandate, Culture, Family, Population
Tagged children, Culture, marriage, population
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The Atheists Who Honored the Bible
I recently witnessed an unlikely scene: the Bible exalted by an atheist government! While driving down Nyezalyezhnastsi Boulevard to the international airport in Minsk, Belarus, we encountered a feast for the eyes, the just-completed National Library of Belarus. An intriguing statue stood near … Continue reading
How to Disciple a Nation with a Paintbrush
In a post last January we mentioned the Reflections Art Gallery. We are happy to bring you this update from the gallery’s founder, Stefan Eicher. Discipling Nations. In the last few months we have had surprising opportunities to share our paintings … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, Cultural Mandate, Vocation
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Thy Will be Done at Boeing as it is in Heaven: WORK and the Bible
Labor Day. This is the perfect opportunity to touch on one of those biblical topics neglected in so much Christian teaching: work. Yes, God has lots to say about our work. We have featured Dr. Christian Overman of Worldview Matters in … Continue reading
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Can You See the Forest in the Seed?
We recently posted Scott Wisley’s story about working with farmers in Papua. That post resonates with another account of an alert cross-cultural servant working with agriculturalists. On a trip to Kenya, I shared dinner with an agronomist working for a … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Mandate, Science
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The Protestant WORD Ethic?
For many years I have been teaching about the need to revive the Reformation. At the heart of this message is what Max Weber, the German social philosopher, called the Protestant work ethic, the virtues of hard work, thrift, and … Continue reading
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PLANET EARTH: Late Great or Future Great .. Which Vision Shapes Your Life?
The Christians in my generation were profoundly impacted by Hal Lindsay’s influential book The Late Great Planet Earth. I have often said that this book has done more than any other to disengage the church from the task that Christ … Continue reading
THE SOURCE of Transformation: An Indian Testimony
One of the people who most influenced the writing of my first book, Discipling Nations, was my Indian friend, Vishal Mangalwadi. Vishal, founder of The Revelation Movement, is an international lecturer, social reformer, cultural and political columnist, philosopher, and author. Vishal … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Mandate, Development, Worldview & Development Resources
Tagged India, Vishal Mangalwadi, William Carey
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