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Bill Nieporte
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Archive for the Missional Grace Category
Star Trek and the state of our churches
By billnieporte on Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 | 1 Comment
Refuse to Compromise – Daniel 1:3-5, 8-16 Star Trek: First Contact, was one of the hit movies of the franchise. It pitted Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise against an enemy known as the Borg – a part flesh and part android race of creatures unified in a single collective. The […]
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Missional Grace: What Is A Missional Church
By billnieporte on Monday, June 14th, 2010 | No Comments
Found this terrific video online describing what it means to be a “missional church.” Sound remarkably like what the Bible describes as “the church,” but I fear that we’ve fallen so far away from the biblical model that something like this actually sounds revolutionary. The Missional Church… simple
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Missional Grace: Transformed
By billnieporte on Sunday, June 13th, 2010 | No Comments
Missional Grace: Transformed Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is true worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to […]
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Missional Grace: Finding Purpose
By billnieporte on Friday, June 11th, 2010 | No Comments
Missional Grace: Finding Purpose “I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace.” Acts 20:24 In his book, Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life, James Coleman writes: With the advent of the […]
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Missional Grace: The Exchanged Life
By billnieporte on Friday, June 11th, 2010 | No Comments
Missional Grace: The Exchanged Life Those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. – Isaiah 43:31, TNIV “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in […]
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Missional Grace: Living FROM Not FOR God
By billnieporte on Thursday, June 10th, 2010 | No Comments
Missional Grace: Living FROM Not FOR God Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God, but the one and only [Son], who is himself God and is in […]
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