Author: Dave Deuel

Shouldn’t Disability Care Givers Do Soul Care? Part 1: An Unmet Global Need

Many disability care professionals view their work as a personal mission, their life’s vocation. They enter disability care-related fields to help people as their service for Christ. Serving others is an expression of their worship. What is more, their labor is deeply personal. Disability caregivers are called to one person at a time. Continue Reading →

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Book Review of What Is Saving Faith: Reflections on Receiving Christ as a Treasure by John Piper

John Piper, committed to the priority of the gospel, says, “There are a thousand needs in the world, and none of them compares to the global need for the gospel.” People who realize their own desperate need feel like responding. That felt and real need is the focus of Piper’s newest book, What Is Saving Faith. Continue Reading →

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Book Review of The Old Testament Law for the Life of the Church: Reading the Torah in the Light of Christ by Richard E. Averbeck

Is the law good or bad? Occasionally a biblical theological study comes along that has the potential to strongly impact soul care ministry. The Old Testament Law for the Life of the Church is one of those works. It is a major paradigm shift in understanding and living the law in all of Scripture. Continue Reading →

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Book Review of Unto Others: Rediscovering the Golden Rule—the Lost Key to Relationships by Dave Swavely

Pastor Dave Swavely, church planter and mission leader, writes out of concern for relationships that should function in love. Among the author’s other writings, Life in the Father’s House: A Member’s Guide to the Local Church (P&R, 1996) illustrates his church relational commitment. In the present study, Swavely addresses the unique relationship Jesus calls “unto others” and invites Christians to rediscover it for the good of the home, church, and society. Continue Reading →

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