CMPL Newsletter 1:7

By tjones | May 8, 2025

CMPL Newsletter May 8, 2025 CMPL Newsletter 1:7 Christ is Risen! This is the day that changes everything. Christ’s resurrection is the fulfillment of God’s promises (Luke 24:44-29). It accomplishes our justification before God (Romans 4:24-25). It brings us new life today through baptism and faith (Romans 6:1-4). As the “firstfruits” of the resurrection, we…

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CMPL Newsletter 1:6

By tjones | April 15, 2025

CMPL Newsletter April 15, 2025 CMPL Newsletter 1:6 An Easter Devotion  This Sunday, Christians around the world will celebrate the defining event of all of history: The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. The readings from the Gospels capture the confusion of the morning of that “third day”: The women who bring spices to…

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CMPL Newsletter 1:5

By tjones | April 8, 2025

CMPL Newsletter April 8, 2025 CMPL Newsletter 1:5 About the Center for Missional & Pastoral Leadership Formation  Biblical. Reformational. Missional. Affordable. Global. These are the five key themes around which we organized the Center for Missional and Pastoral Leadership. What do we mean by “Affordable”? This emphasis may seem to be more practical and less…

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CMPL Newsletter

By tjones | March 11, 2025

CMPL Newsletter March 11, 2025 Biblical Biblical. Reformational. Missional. Affordable. Global.  These are the five key themes around which we organized the Center for Missional and Pastoral Leadership. What do we mean by “biblical”? This fundamental theme is the root of everything in our programs. Without the written Word of God, which testifies to the…

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About the Marketplace

By tjones | February 10, 2020

In Ephesians 4 Paul describes a thriving church as a collaboration of all members.  He writes, …speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when…

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