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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Tag Archives: Christ
HOW DO WE MEASURE the Great Commission?
We don’t all measure the Great Commission the same way … and the differences aren’t trivial. I’m a big fan of John Piper and have been helped tremendously by his teaching. However, he recently wrote a paper, How Much is Left … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Discipleship, Evangelism, Great Commission, Mission
Tagged Christ, Discipleship, Great Commission, nations
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The Unlikely Power of Beauty
Beauty is one of God’s gifts to the world. We’ve written about beauty lots of times. A couple of recent posts were How to Disciple a Nation with a Paintbrush and Art for the Community’s Sake: Christians Using Art to Shape the … Continue reading
Time to Stand with the People of Japan
Calling all DNA champions, supporters, partners, and friends, The news coming out of Japan is horrific. Last Friday’s earthquake and tsunami wrought the biggest disaster to strike that nation since the end of World War II. As of this writing, … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Current events, Servanthood
Tagged aid, Christ, Church, Community, disaster, earthquake, Japan, Kingdom, love, News, relief, serve
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Sacred & Secular Divide
The Lordship of Christ Over All The first of our DNA Core Beliefs is the “Jesus is King.” It is first, because it is the very foundation for everything we believe, write and teach. As pastor Barry Seagren says in … Continue reading
Spiritual Vaccuum Leads to Embrace of Premodern Religions
As Europe and America have become post Christian, they have turned to Modernism – Secularism. As they have come to experience the spiritual void of Atheistic-Materialism, they become Post-Modern. And what is Post-Modernism? Unfortunately, there has not been a return … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged Africa, animism, Atheism, biblical worldview, Christ, Christianity, Confucianism, Culture, Hinduism, India, Islam, Judaism, License, Materialism, monism, Morality, naturalism, paganism, Personal, philosophy, Random, Religion, Spirituality, Thoughts, Western society
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Reconciliation vs. Restoration
To be a useful disciple, one of the concepts with which we need to be familiar is the biblical difference between “reconciliation” and “restoration.” In the biblically cosmic sense, reconciliation is bringing the broken creation – including our souls – … Continue reading
Music that Writes Culture, Part 7
I mentioned earlier that years ago I had a “revelation” when I was singing this hymn. This was the stanza that startled me. There is an imperative here, “No more let sins and sorrows grow!” How far? “As far as … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, Economic Development, Language, Music, Science
Tagged accountability, Arts, behavior, Bible, biblical worldview, Christ, Christianity, Christmas, Community, consequences, consumerism, creation, Culture, Eden, Entertainment, evil, Faith, Fall, Francis Bacon, integrity, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Morality, Music, Religion, responsibility, restoration, Science, Sin, Stewardship, transformation
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Music that Writes Culture, Part 3
Now I want to look in detail at the New Year’s carol – Joy to the World. In the next installments of this blog series we will examine the significance of each stanza for our lives as we enter this … Continue reading
