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"The mind of the rash will know and understand, and the stammering tongue will be
fluent and clear." — Isaiah 32:4
Downloadable free ppt presentations used in classes, seminars and other venues
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For worship services ad similar venues
- My covenant |
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- A covenant for all believers used at an international gathering of
members of the Church of the Nazarene in Orlando, FL
- What in the world is God doing? |
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- A look at some things about the current state of world evangelism
efforts. Created for seminar by Chuck Gailey and Howard Culbertson at an global quadrennial
convention of Nazarene Missions International (NMI)
- Forum: The occult and demonic | Download as
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- Presentation at a church on the occult and demonic in Scripture and
the implications for today [ Related articles: Is Satan
real? Haitian voodoo possession
]
- Giving to world missions |
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- Variety of opportunities available to give to world evangelism causes
through the Church of the Nazarene. Used as a district Nazarene Missions International
convention
- Missions Communicaton | Download as
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- Educating a congregation about world missions and promoting
involvement in it Used as a district Nazarene Missions International convention
- Missions giving through Faith Promise | Download as
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- Explanation of how using a Faith Promise promotion/system can
actually increase a local church's income. Used at a district Nazarene Missions International
convention
- Nazarene World Evangelism Fund-- Where does it go? |
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- Jehovah's Witnesses | Download as PowerPoint
- A look at the history, development and beliefs of the Jehovah's
Witnesses including a suggested approach in trying to dialog with them (note: sometimes the
organization will be erroneously listed as the Jehovahs Witnesses.). Prepared for a church
presentation. Ca be used as an outline for a talk about the Jehivaoh's Witnesses [ My answers to questions posted by a Jehovah's
Witness friend]
- World evangelism slogans | Download as
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- Slogans on PowerPoint slides to encourage involvement in world
evangelism efforts
- Haggai: Thoughts about resources for world evangelism |
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- How believers today spend financial resources in the light of what
God said to Haggai
- Coming up with money for youth ministry | Download as
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- Some thoughts on raising money to fund local church youth ministry
activities. Given at a youth ministers' seminar in Oklahoma
- Responsive reading from Scripture |
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- Responsive readings from the Bible on world missions for use in
worship services
All classes
- Class attendance is important (cartoon) |
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- A classic "Peanuts" cartoon strip featuring Linus and Snoopy (as "Joe
Cool") reminds students that they are more likely to succeed academically if they attend class
regularly.
- Substantive response posts |
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- Explanation of what constitutes a "substantive" response post in an
online forum
Enligsh department class
- Dante Alighieri | Download as PowerPoint
- Brief story of the life of Italy's most famous poet
Introduction to Biblical Literature / Biblical Perspectives
- Seven ways to enrich your Bible understanding | Download
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- Factors to keep in mind as we approach the Bible and try to fully
understand it. These factors include being aware of historical differences, cultural differences,
language differences, slight differences between hand0-copied ancient manuscripts, the gradual
unfolding of divine revelation, the variety of literary genre in the books of the Bible, and the fact
that there is both a human and a divine aspect to Scripture.
- Why I accept the Bible as authoritative |
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- Eight reasons why the Bible can be called divinely inspired and
authoritative
- Seven common errors made in interpreting the Bible |
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- Common mistakes made in understanding or trying to explain
Scripture passages: Allegorizing too much, ignoring the context, over-selectivity, false
combinations, redefinition, depending on extra-canonical authorities, personalizing
everything
- Inadequate uses of the Bible |
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- Uses of the Bible that are not necessarily bad, but are inadequate if
that's the only way one uses to approach or think about Holy Scripture: Emotional and physical
medicine chest, refrigerator for spiritual snacks, crystal ball, promise book, moral code, debate
solver and proof of our own integrity ("I swear on a stack of Bibles")
- Major themes of the Bible |
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- Key Biblical themes or topics: Covenant, deliverance/redemption,
law/righteousness, and eschatology/hope,
- Old Testament books |
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- Summaries of every Old Testament (or Hebrew Bible) book
- New Testament books |
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- Summaries of every New Testament book
- Twelve eras of the biblical world |
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- Biblical history divided into twelve eras: 1. Creation/Beginnings,
2. Ancestral, 3. Exodus/Covenant Community, 4. The Promised Land, 5. Judges, 6. Israel
becomes a Kingdom, 7. Israel in exile, 8. Returning and rebuilding, 9. Post-exilic /
Inter-testamental, 10. Jesus and the Gospels, 11. The church, 12. Global missions era
World religions
- Map showing majority religion in various areas of the world |
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- Global map with predominant religions shown for each area
- Pie charts showing statistical breakdown of adherents to
major world religions |
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- Breakdown by percentages of adherents to the world's living religions
Short-term missions trip orientations
- Develping cultural awareness in short-term mission trip teams |
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- Helpiong short-term mission trip team participants improve their
level of cultural intelligence. Insights from cultural anthropology.
edited version of this PDF | edited version of the
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- Moving beyond stereotypes | Download as
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- Helpiong short-term mission trip teams develop cultural
intelligence
- Creating links in a chain of interactions that may lead people to
saving faith in Jesus Christ |
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- Most Christians did not come to faith as the result of a single
encounter with the Gospel message. Many conversions are the result of a chain of
experiences that may take place over a period of time. Thus, a conversation about the Gospel
with an unbeliever may be the beginning link in a chain or the middle link or even one at the very
end when the unbelievers is ready to accept Christ as Savior and Lord.
- Using Cultural Anthropology insights on mission trips |
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- Increasing the effectiveness of the ministry of people participating in
short-term mission trips by giving them a basic understanding of cultural anthropology
- Fund-raising for mission trips |
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- Suggestions on recruiting financial supporters for short-term
missionary work
- Spiritual warfare |
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- The Bible speaks about the reality of a conflict we face as believers,
and we popularly call that conflict "spiritual warfare."
- Relational or friendship evangelism |
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- Relational evangelism emphasizes building friendship relationships
with non-believers as a basis for sharing the gospel with them. On the other hand, initial-contact
evangelism is the label for moving immediately to a gospel presentation to strangers right after
meeting them.
- Brief history of Haiti | Download as PowerPoint
- Used for the orientation of short-term mission trip teams going to the
Caribbean island nation of Haiti
Cultural anthropology
- Interacting with other cultures: the attitude spectrum | Download as
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- Attitudes often manifested by people as they interact with other
cultures: Ignore, reject, tolerate, understand, or embrace
- Cultural adjustment map |
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- Duane Elmer's diagram of how people navigate successfully or
unsuccessfully what is sometimes called "culture shock," a process which he refers to ad cultural
adjustment
- Using case studies as a learning tool in cultural anthropology
studies |
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- Case studies can be an effective learning tool using steps such as
first, reading the entire case study, then formulating a clear statement of the problem, identifying
the issues at stake, clarifying facts as well as feelings, considering the case study from different
angles, and digging around for resources, all before asserting what should be done and by
whom
- How How religious people view the dominant culture (issue of
Christ and culture) | Download
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- A look in the Cultural Anthropology course at different ways in
which religious people Christians, as well as other religious groups, tend to adopt as a group an
attitude toward the larger culture in which they live. These attitudes include opposition,
rejection, fusion, synthesis, transformation, paradox, and dualism
- Cultural evolution models and their tragic flaws |
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- A look at the cultural evolution perspective of L.H. Morgan and
others that has remained as a popular belief though it has been discarded in cultural anthropology
circle
- Cultural Anthropology's big names | Download as
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- Photos and brief descriptions of ten key figures in Cultural
Anthropology history
- Defining cultural anthropology |
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- An introduction to cultural anthropology as an academic discipline or
field of study with an emphasis on defining the word "culture" as it will be used in the
course.
- Culture seen as an iceberg |
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- An analogy that shows up how much of a culture is out of sight of
the casual observer
- The world from "my perspective" |
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- Language learning alphabet |
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- An ABC look at an overview of strategies for language
learning by adults
Perspectives on the World Christian movement
- Christian Community Development | Download as
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- Fulfilling the biblical mandates regarding social justice and caring
for the poor through Christian community development efforts
- Pioneers of the World Christian Movement |
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- A look at some missionary pioneers who through the ages have
worked for the fulfillment of Christ's Great Commission
Introduction to Christian missions
- Key world missions Bible passages: The biblical basis of
missions |
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- Visualizing the call to world evangelism in the Bible using
graphics
- Epochs of Christian world missions |
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- Four-hundred-year epochs of the church's global missionary
expansion and the major cultural basins affected in each period: Roman empire, Barbarians,
Vikings, Muslims and ends-of-the-earth
- Unreached People groups — A sampling |
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- Brief descriptions of twenty major socio-cultural-linguistic groups of
people who have not yet heard the gospel and have little access to it
- "Please don't send me to Africa"
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- Slides to accompany Scott Wesley Brown's hilarious song about not
wanting God to send him to Africa as a missionary. Slides include Brown's lyrics as well as
graphics to illustrate them.
Theology of missions
- Describing God |
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- How well do the classic "omni" attributes of God communicate
cross-culturally? Alan Tippett's proposal for a cross-cultural description of God.
- Christ and Culture -- Theology of Missions |
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- Theological issues involved in shaping how religious people view
the larger culture of which they are a part
- Seven theological trends in world missions |
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- Current trends in the theology of missions as seen by missiologist
Alan Tippett and enunciated in his book Introduction to Missiology. These include fresh
looks at theological views on topics such as God as creator, power encounters, indigeneity, social
change, the corporate group vs. the individual, contextualization and global missionary
training.
- Exegesis paper feedback for students -- in occasion of
the annual Emmy awards ceremony |
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- Laudable things in biblical exegesis papers written for Theology of
Missions
Chureh health/growth and Christian mission
- Defining Church Health/Growth |
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- A look at the criticisms leveled at the Church health/growth
movement along with a clear definition of what founder Donald McGavran was trying to say
with the term "church growth."
- Obstacles churches face in accomplishing their mission
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- Five things that can weaken local churches and keep them from
being truly the Church of Jesus Christ
- History of the Church Growth Movement |
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- Donald McGavran and the the Church Growth movement that
came out of his ministry as a missionary in India |
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- Pathological conditions in local churches | Download as
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- Eight "diseases" that afflict local churches thereby inhibiting their
effectiveness, outreach and growth: Ethnic-itis, ghost-town, people-blindness, koinonia-itis, Old
First Church syndrome, sociological strangulation, hyper-cooperativism, and pew paralysis.
- Gray matrix
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- The gray matrix -- A tool for analysis and planning by Far East
Broadcasting Company (FEBC).
Student presentations on To Spread the Power by George G.
Hunter III
- Multiplying recruiting units |
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- Summary of material in chapter six
- Indigenizing the church's
ministries — Hadaway | Download as PowerPoint
- Why Christians seem seem useless and irrelevant today |
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- Exegeting the culture
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- Understranding the culture milieu in which a local church exists --
student-prepared presentation for class
- Ministering to needs
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- Identifying needs in the larger culture and coming up with creative and credible ways that a
congregation can help meet those needs
Nazarene missions
- "Through you all nations will be blessed" | Download as PDF
- Nazarene missions in context: Ralph Winter's "epochs" of missions
history sets the background for a look at Nazarene missions history
- World Evangelism Fund-- Where does it go? |
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- Where does the World Evangelism Fund money accomplish?
Ministry, Church and Society
- MCS course requirements |
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- Explanation of course assignments and other requirements for
Ministry, Church and Society
- Worldview boutique |
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- A look at several worldviews as explained by James Sire in
The Universe Next Door
- Christ and Culture issues | open as PowerPoint
- Various ways classic books by Niebuhr and Kraft say that the
surrounding culture has been viewed by Christians (presentation for General Education course
called Ministry, Church and Society
- Your spiritual priorities |
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- Explanation of a survey which may help you assess the priority you
may be giving to aspects of the Christian life
- Fulfilling Christ's Great Commission of Matthew 28:19-20 |
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- Brief, one-class period overview of world missions prepared for
MCS (covers Biblical basis, history and current state of world evangelization)
- Epochs of Christian world missions (for Ministry, Church and
Society course) |
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- Four-hundred-year periods in which the Church expanded into major
cultural basins: the Roman empire (0-400), the Barbarians (400-800), the Vikings (800-1200),
the Muslims (1200-1600) and the ends-of-the-earth(1600 to present)
- The USA's "fertile soil" for new religious movements | Download
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- Ten reasons for the lengthy list of options on America's religious
menu: secularism, anxiety over threats to human survival, complexity of modern existence,
betrayals by political and religious leaders, longing for transcendence, breakdown of family and
neighborhood groups, feeling of lostness fostered by moral / religious relativism, naive openness
to religious imports, affluence and consumerism, and failures in the Church.
- Case studies: principles for using a unique teaching tool | Download as PowerPoint
- Introduction to case studies and a specific look at "To Drink or Not
to Drink" [ see case study
- Explaining your Faith Journey (giving your testimony) |
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- Three men on whose shoulders we stand |
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- Biographical sketches of Martin Luther, John Wesley and Phineas F.
Bresee
- Donald McGavran and church health/growth (MCS)
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- Donald McGavran biography and his research on church
health/growth -- edition for Ministry, Church and Society course
- Weekly "lab" reports for MCS
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- Instructions for "lab" assignment (observations and reflections
following attendance at a church service
- Volunteer ministry hours project
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- How to carry out the "volunteer ministry" hours requirement in MCS
-- Howard Culbertson
"So if you speak in a way no one can understand, what's the point of opening your
mouth?" -- 1 Corinthians 14:9, The Message
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Getting better grades
Bibliography pages
Cheating consequences
Documenting direct quotations Exam
study guides
Fixing writing problems
Working in groups
Listening to lectures
One bite at a time
Syllabus explanation
Teacher/student contract
Writing checklist
Ten ways to avoid
becoming a missionary How to
ruin short-term mission trips Seeking
God's will? Can you
survive being home after a missions trip?
Nazarene Missions International (NMI) resources
