Nielsen’s Nook

Relating to Missiology & Missions

States Rights 2010-03-23

It's interesting to me that in the relatively minute history of the United States, concern over states rights seems to be invoked at times when the Federal Government is insisting that states take care of their disenfranchised citizens.The suit argues that the legislation's mandate that individuals purchase health insurance exceeds the federal government's power to regulate interstate commerce under the ...

Moral Authority to Exhort 2008-02-25

... for in this — in [Paul's] love for [the Colossian Church] and his spiritual agony at the thought of their danger — is his moral authority to exhort them. He has never actually met them. They are Epaphras' spiritual children. His moral authority to teach them lies in the fact of his suffering for them (see Col 1:24). For ...

Cyril of Jerusalem on Catholicity, Part 3 2007-11-03

The Church is called ‘catholic' or ‘universal' because it has spread throughout the entire world, from one end of the earth to the other. Again, it is called catholic because it teaches fully and unfailingly all the doctrines which ought to be brought to men's knowledge, whether concerned with visible or invisible things, with the realities of heaven or the ...

Cyril of Jerusalem on Catholicity, Part 1 2007-10-31

The Church is called ‘catholic' or ‘universal' because it has spread throughout the entire world, from one end of the earth to the other. Again, it is called catholic because it teaches fully and unfailingly all the doctrines which ought to be brought to men's knowledge, whether concerned with visible or invisible things, with the realities of heaven or the ...


The Challenge of Christian Education in the Third Millennium 2007-10-18

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