Wallace B. Henley

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  Jan 25, 2023

  What does a New Testament church look like? (part 2)

  Jesus transforms everything He touches, and the continuation of that touch is to be through the New Testament church that takes itself seriously as the body of Christ with vision for its locale and the world.

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  Jan 18, 2023

  Building a Jesus church and lifestyle for a turbulent world (part 1)

  We abandoned the quest for church growth, and focused instead on church lifestyle, based on Jesus’s model. Soon we were discovering that as we seek Jesus’s style, “growth happens.”

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  Dec 21, 2022

  4 entities in modern culture that can push back chaos (part 5)

  Truly, it’s time to listen to the Lord, recognizing the hope that is in Him, including the way out of the spiritual, social, and cultural “Five-K Zone” where chaos squeezes hard.

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  Dec 14, 2022

  How to push back against the chaos (part 4)

  Here are push-backs against chaos and desolation that can drive out chaos and provide powerful push-back in a world whose boundaries are under constant assault.

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  Dec 7, 2022

  Assault on the boundaries: Love and relationship (pt 3)

  Christ’s followers are not to contribute to the chaos of society by being dismissive of the sorrows humans bring upon themselves and others.

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  Nov 30, 2022

  Utopian socialists suffer horrible delusion (part 2)

  Eden was a paradise not only because of its physical boundaries, but the spiritual, moral, institutional, territorial, and social as well.

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  Nov 23, 2022

  Assault on the boundaries 'chaos vs. cosmos': Our present madness (part 1)

  Ever since the assault on and the collapse of the gates of Eden, chaos presses in on the walls and gates of borderlands, and, like Eden, when the boundaries cave, chaos surges through.

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  Nov 12, 2022

  Does Trump's ridicule of DeSantis expose his own soul?

  How strange for a politician who depends on the conservative Christian vote to ridicule an opponent as “sanctimonious.” This is no time to assault the character and personhood of someone who may be needed later to help win the war.

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  Nov 2, 2022

  Election season: A most dangerous time of spiritual warfare

  This is the push-back that we need in this most dangerous season when strife and chaos storm the gates, and only the churches can provide it.

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  Oct 26, 2022

  The 'MAGA' we need: Was America ever godly? (part 2)

  When was the United States of America a godly nation?

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  Oct 19, 2022

  The ‘MAGA’ we need — urgently (part 1)

  America cannot be great again by God’s standards until it has become godly again in its core worldview and values.

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  Oct 12, 2022

  Escaping the whales: Churches and socio-political movements

  Rome and its many movements are long-gone, but the Church still stands.

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  Oct 5, 2022

  The ‘rubble world’ and the Church

  The greatest mission of the remnant Church is to speak into this world, not some rhetorical masterpiece we have contrived, but what the Master has given us in the Bible.

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  Sep 28, 2022

  The royal family and the squandering of greatness

  And so young Princess Elizabeth, though heir to the throne, volunteered for military service in the Second World War, and worked in the maintenance of military vehicles. The woman who had the hefty crown placed on her head also knew how to change oil, repair a broken fanbelt, and get the dirt from under her fingernails.

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  Sep 7, 2022

  An open letter to young men and women in ministry (part 3)

  One morning you will awaken, slide out of bed, shuffle into your bathroom, look in the mirror, and it will shout: “You are getting old!” But there’s a way to stay young.

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  Sep 2, 2022

  Ed Young and the elders in the gates

  Pastors are needed in the “gates” more than ever because most of the burning issues of our times deal with the concerns they seek to address.

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  Aug 31, 2022

  An open letter to young men and women in ministry (part 2)

  Though I am old in years, the fire lit in me by people like these still burns. Where I have done well, it is through their examples and teaching. Where I have missed the mark, I have no one to blame but myself.

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  Aug 24, 2022

  An open letter to young ministers (part 1)

  Don’t assume that you are beyond temptation. Don’t set your eyes on those who have fallen … but do watch those who have fallen, repented, and gotten back in the race.

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  Aug 17, 2022

  Sharpton's distressing spin on abortion

  God did not sanction the choice by some of “whiteness” and segregation in Birmingham in 1963, and He does not now sanction “choice” of killing a baby on demand in its mother’s womb.

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  Jul 27, 2022

  Can the center hold?

  We must not let the center be lost or the future will suffer even worse destructive craziness than our contemporary moment.