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Christ In The Covenant Curses? Deuteronomy 28 And The Gospel, A. Rahel Wells Jan 2021

Christ In The Covenant Curses? Deuteronomy 28 And The Gospel, A. Rahel Wells

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

Is the Jesus who says to “love your enemies” (Matt 5:44) really the same God who will “take delight in bringing ruin” upon his people (Deut 28:63)? How can Christ be seen in all Scripture when the covenant curses are included? This paper argues that the covenant curses are often misunderstood, and are actually at the center of God’s heart of love, even pointing forward to the Messiah. Many scholars have analyzed and documented different structures within the covenant curses.1 One of the most comprehensive analyses finds numerous smaller chiastic structures within Deut 28, both in the blessings and the …

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Ambition And Leading Teams Effectively, Nicholas R. Ruport Jan 2021

Ambition And Leading Teams Effectively, Nicholas R. Ruport

All Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The problem that this project addressed was the impact of ambition and ambitious leaders in relation to team effectiveness. In response to this problem the researcher explored the biblical foundations of ambition and ambitious leadership, with special interest in one’s ambition being aimed at knowing God more fully, fulfilling God’s mission, and glorifying God. He reviewed literature related to CliftonStrengths, team leadership, and the practice of the first-among-equals in teams with attention to the CliftonStrength of Competition and its connection to ambition. He conducted two case studies by way of interviews with four pastors who had Competition as a top …

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Incarnating The Missionary-Pastoral Character Of The Churches In Asia, Peter Pojol Sj Jan 2021

Incarnating The Missionary-Pastoral Character Of The Churches In Asia, Peter Pojol Sj

Asia Pacific Mission Studies

The emergence and growth of pastoral institutes in Asia manifests the missionary-pastoral trajectories that were made the center of the focus of the Church by Vatican II, echoed by the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC), and reaffirmed and rejuvenated for our time by Pope Francis. The pastoral institutes of Network Pastoral Asia and Inter-Institutional Collaboration illustrate this impetus. They invite sustained reflection on and creative application of the Council's “principle of pastorality,” which carefully attends to context and faithfully expresses the “centrifugal missionary dimension” of evangelization.

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