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Imprint periodically publishes articles on a wide array of ecclesiological and theological topics by trusted pastors and partners to provide resources to strengthen churches.
Guard Your Garden: Leadership and the Responsibility to Protect
I recently started reading From Eden to Egypt by Alex Duke. It gives an overview of Genesis, and I highly recommend it. In one chapter, Duke discusses Genesis 3 and notes that Adam was passive. He stood beside Eve as she took the fruit and ate and failed to obey God’s...
Reading Without Listening: How Scriptural Familiarity Can Deafen Us to God’s Voice
In the novel East of Eden, John Steinbeck says concerning one of its characters, Liza Hamilton, that her total intellectual association was with the Bible…. In that one book she had her history and her poetry, her knowledge of peoples and things, her ethics, her...
Discipleship by Example: What Are They Learning as They Watch Your Life?
“Do as I say, not as I do.” This is a phrase, I would wager, that most of us have thought or said at some stage or another. We realise that we often do not live up to our ideals, whether they be moral, physical or otherwise. Part of being human is falling short. We...
When Money Becomes Your Life: A Call to Godly Contentment
One of my favourite stage plays is A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. As the play unfolds, we follow Walter Lee Younger (35), our protagonist, as he is driven to the verge of insanity by the pursuit of a dream that he himself cannot put into words. He has only...
Trust God and Keep Your Powder Dry
“Trust God and keep your powder dry” is a phrase originally attributed to Oliver Cromwell, although it first appears in written form in a poem by Lieutenant-Colonel William Blacker, entitled “Oliver’s Advice.” The words are lifted from one stanza from that poem: The...
Letter to a Future Imprint Intern
Dear Future Intern, My wife, daughter, and I moved to South Africa recently. We were sent here to church plant and are beginning our time by completing the Imprint internship at Brackenhurst Baptist Church (BBC). It is mid-July as I write—six months into the ten-month...
Ministering Like the Master: Lessons from Mark 3:13–19
At this point in Mark’s Gospel, Jesus’ ministry had gained considerable momentum. Men and women from all over Israel and beyond flocked to this man for aid. Wherever he went, he was noticed. At this juncture, he sets apart twelve men—custodians of the gospel—who would...
Leaving a Healthy Mark on the Church in Africa
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