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		<title>Songs and Mission – Part 2, praising God before the nations</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The promise that God would bless all peoples and nations on earth through Abraham’s offspring (Genesis 12:2-3; 18:18-19) was embraced in the understanding and songs of the Israelites during the kingdom period.  The Israelites were to maintain their relationship with Yahweh in the Promised Land.  As they continued to obey him, they would experience his blessings.  The nations would wonder who the god was whom they served and the Israelites were to point the peoples to Yahweh.   ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Songs and Mission &#8211; Part 1, God of the Universe</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Psalms are a collection of songs sung by the Israelites in worship from the time period in which the kings ruled. As reflected in the Psalms, the Israelites knew Yahweh as righteous, just, merciful, compassionate, loving, and faithful.  ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Temple and Mission</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2013 09:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[God promised to David that his son would build the temple. The temple symbolized that God chose Israel to be his people and he chose to dwell among them. It reminded them of God’s covenantal and unique relationship with them, which included their deliverance from Egypt (Exodus 6:6-8; 19:4-6) and part of the covenant with Abraham (Genesis 12:1-3).  ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>David and Mission &#8211; Part 2, The Davidic covenant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[David believed that God’s promise to establish David’s family forever on the throne of Israel was part of the fulfillment of the promises with Abraham and the Israelites. David was selected as God’s chosen king, as the Israelites were selected as God’s chosen people. Through this kingship, God would protect and bless them forever. He would use Israel to demonstrate to the other nations his love, holiness, and sovereignty so that all people would know and worship him.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>David and Mission &#8211; Part 1, A man after God’s own heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 09:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After Saul failed to worship God alone and attempted to control God’s mission, God chose a new king for Israel. This time it was someone after God’s own heart. In the Hebrew understanding, the heart was the seat of the will; therefore, God’s will was David’s will. David understood that God’s will was for all of creation to know and worship him (1 Chronicles 16:23-36). David served God and relied on the daily strength the Lord gave him, not his own. Recorded in the scriptures are descriptions of his righteousness, justice, faithfulness, obedience, and his conversations and intimacy with God.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A King for Israel and Mission</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2012 09:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The period of the judges includes many instances of Israel’s failure to worship and serve God alone, as his holy people in a witness to the nations. The culmination of their failure is found in 1 Samuel in their request for a human king to lead their people in order to be like the other nations around them. Even though Israel rejected God as their king, God’s love for all people and his intent to use the Israelites to fulfill his mission of redeeming, reconciling, and restoring creation did not change. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ruth and Mission</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The book of Ruth is a story about two women, who were widowed, refugees, poor, and destitute with no financial or physical security. Both of them experienced life as a foreigner and ethnic minority in another country. Past issues and tensions between Israel and Moab also likely negatively influenced relations for them.  In the midst of economic, social, cultural, political, and gender marginalization, extraordinary acts of commitment and faithfulness abounded. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wayward Generations and Mission</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 09:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The book of Judges describes a time in Israelite history when there were many failures in faithfulness: to God; to his covenant; and to his mission for Israel to worship and serve Yahweh alone in witness to the nations of his love for them.  Fourteen times the writer of the book of Judges declares periods when the Israelites “did evil in the sight of the Lord,” or did not allow the Lord to be their king and everyone did as they pleased.  ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rahab, Naaman, the Queen of Sheba, and Mission</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Each story is a cross-cultural encounter, involving Israelites and Gentiles from different nations and backgrounds.  Rahab was a female prostitute in Jericho. Naaman was ill with leprosy and a successful army commander in Aram. The Queen was a wealthy political ruler from southern Arabia. Each of these people first heard about the Lord from witnesses.  ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Joshua and Mission</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In accordance with his earlier promises to Abraham and to Moses, God called Joshua to participate in his mission by leading the Israelites into Canaan. This included entering a foreign land, going to war to take possession of it, and dividing it between the tribes. While it is difficult to understand why killing and war are part of God’s mission story, this was not an open authorization for war.   ]]></description>
		
		
		
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