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While the concepts of mudding and truck and tractor pulling are prevalent throughout the United States and Canada, there’s a part of me that wants to say that those recreational activities developed near my hometown.  Growing up in Corbin, Kentucky, I had a few childhood moments when I was honored […]

No More Muddin’ and Pullin’ for Jesus

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One of the most critical issues in missions today is that of reaching the cities of our globalized world.  If you need a quick visual on the fact that we now live in an urban world, I will direct you to my post HERE.  I was very thankful that a […]

Tim Keller on City Reaching at Cape Town 2010

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I want to take a moment to turn our attentions to the urban world in which we presently live.  While just under half of the world’s population lives in rural areas, just over half live in urban contexts.  We live in an urban world.  The global trends project that we […]

It’s an Urban World

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