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Year End Giving Challenge

Tim Kimberley — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:25:11 +0000

With Christmas fast approaching this is a great time to reflect. Reflecting on our great Savior and His misison to each one of us. Here at Reclaiming the Mind/Credo House Ministries we have been reflecting on the crucial part you play to help us fulfill our mission. Simply put, your year end giving helps us to fulfill our mission. George Barna recently reported America is becoming more and more theologically illiterate (source). This breaks our heart since God has clearly revealed Himself to humanity.

The need for our unique ministry is as as strong as we have ever seen. 2010 has been one of the most exciting years in the history of our ministry. We are looking to 2011 with great eagerness. We are on a trajectory in 2011 to:

- Have 5 Theologically-Rich DVD Small Group Curriculum produced through our Bible Boot Camp Series.

- Produce on DVD our Discipleship Program which we believe will become the most popular thing we’ve ever produced for the body of Christ (a huge thing to say for those of us who love The Theology Program).

- Produce on DVD the Discipleship Program FOR KIDS. We believe this will be a one-of-a-kind resource for families throughout the Church.

- Begin refilming The Theology Program in HD starting with Introduction to Theology in 2011.

- Produce 4 new accessible yet theologically rich books through our new Credo House Publishers.

- Become a member of ECFA (Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability) by 2nd Quarter 2011

Are we trying to raise millions of dollars? No, we are a streamlined ministry seeking to raise $30,000 by December 31st, 2010 to set us on solid footing as we enter 2011. Would you consider giving above your local church giving to help us fulfill our mission?

Donations made online or postmarked by midnight of December 31st, 2010 are tax-deductible for the 2010 tax year. Online donations can be made by clicking here.

Checks can be sent to:
         Reclaiming the Mind Ministries
         109 NW 142nd St
         Suite B
         Edmond, OK 73013

God has designed His work on earth to come about through the giving of His people. We are each to exercise wisdom as we give. We are humbled by the confidence you place in us as you consider a year-end gift to Reclaiming the Mind Ministries. For assistance with your gift planning, please contact our Executive Director Tim Kimberley at 405-748-4288 or timk@reclaimingthemind.org

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Introducing 3 Brand-New Resources: Pre-Order Your Copies Today

Tim Kimberley — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:53:15 +0000

1. Bible Boot Camp: How to Study the Bible

We’re ecstatic to be offering the next installment (volume 2) in our brand new Bible Boot Camp series: How to Study the Bible

So many people believe the Bible is accurate, yet so few actually study it regularly. Many times this is because the reader has never been given solid tools to study the Bible. In this 4-session small-group DVD study (each session is 45 minutes) we give time-tested principles to help you better understand God’s great Word.

Session #1 – The Interpretive Process : lays the ground work to approach any verse.

Session #2 – Bridging the Historical Gap : so many are sidetracked in their Bible reading because they’ve never learned how to bridge more than 2000 years of history between us and the text.

Session #3 – Bridging the Literary Gap : many give up on the Bible because they’re trying to interpret every book the same, we show how appreciating the different genres of Scripture is so important for personal Bible study

Session #4 – Bridging the Contextual Gap : context is so important when studying the Bible, this Boot Camp wraps up with strong training in keeping the context clear as we interpret the Bible

Each session is 45 minutes long with discussion questions at the end. Perfect for your small group, Sunday school, friends, and family.

Pre-Order begins today…this all-new study will ship mid-December.

Price:

$29.99 for the 4-Disc DVD (order DVD)

$7.99 for each workbook (order workbook)

Click Here to Pre-Order Today

2. Top Ten Biblical Discoveries in Archaeology Book

Do you know the 10 most significant biblical discoveries in archaeology? You will after reading this book. In just 90 highly-illustrated full-color pages you will gain an appreciation for the background and shocking discovery of these 10 priceless items. Some of the discoveries were made a couple hundred years ago, others were made more recently. This book makes a great gift for those who love the Bible and also those who doubt the historical accuracy of the Bible.

We’re proud to introduce the first book from Credo House Publishers! This book is rich in content, readable in style, and accessible in length. Written by our own Executive Director, Tim Kimberley.

Pre-order your copy today by clicking here.

3. Critical Thinking Elective

Robert Bowman has done an excellent job this semester teaching our Critical Thinking apologetics elective. This Critical Thinking class has been the most popular elective we have ever taught. Did you miss the class? Were you in the class and now want to get it into the hands of friends, family, church members, or co-workers? You can pre-order the class starting today!

The class will begin shipping on December 6th.

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A Press Release to Evangelicalism

C Michael Patton — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:13:52 +0000

September 27, 2007

Frisco, Texas: When I started The Theology Program in 2001, I had no idea what God was going to do. We now have over 50,000 registered online and on-campus students in 110 countries. We are in hundreds of churches and soon to begin in hundreds more.

When The Theology Program grew into Reclaiming the Mind Ministries in 2006, I had no idea that the response would be so great. Our website receives over 100,000 hits daily. We are now looking to expand our ministry in ways in which we never dreamed. It blows my mind how many have endorsed and committed themselves to this ministry.

When the Parchment and Pen blog began over six months ago, (most of all) I had no idea that I would be writing so often! I really had no idea what an impact a simple blog could make.

In all the ministries of RMM, I have never sought to confirm prejudices, but to engage the issues as honestly as I could. This takes risk and trust.

The risk involved comes from a personal desire to see people more committed to a persuasion about the essentials of the Christian faith. While it is tempting to skew the evidence, make overstatements, and create straw-men, we have worked under the assumption that we must have a faith that is intellectually honest in all areas. In this, there is the real risk that people may not look like us in the end. They may find alternative positions more persuasive.

The trust must follow the risk. I think that God is a pretty big God. I trust that He is not alarmed with our questions or doubts. In fact, I think he is pleased with them. For in them we show an honest struggle for truth. If we follow the God of all eternity, then we have no need to stick our head in the sand on any issue. We can trust Him to guide us to the truth.

I am glad to say that, from everything I have seen,Â the risk has done nothing but disarm people and persuade them further in the truths of Christianity. They are disarmed because they cannot approach us with the suspicion so common in our postmodern world.

My greatest desire is for people to know that Christianity is true, not just a blind hope. So many people approach their faith with the hope that in the end the roll of the dice will have been favorable to them. Other faiths have only this choice available to them, but not Christianity. I desire for people’s faith to be real, defensible, and able to stand through the trials that so often turn people away from the faith or into a state of perpetual disillusionment. The seed must go deep. Theological discipleship must happen if the root is to be established.

This is not meant to be a ministry promotion or a plea for ministry funds (although funds are always needed!). It is simply meant to share encouragement with those of you out there who have, like myself, been lamenting the deteriorating condition of the mind within the Evangelical Church. Things really are changing. People are not as ready to turn away from truth as we often think. We just have to provide the avenue and the methodology that regains their trust.

I want to say thank you to all who are involved in and supporting this ministry in so many ways. It encourages me (and all the RMM staff), confirming that we are following God’s direction.

Folks, I think Aslan really is on the move.

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ETS Theological Library is Now Complete

C Michael Patton — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:18:52 +0000

ItsÂ finally complete!!!Â The RMM Theological Library.

Hundreds of theological papers online and available for search and download.Â These are papers from the past 5 years of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) annual meeting. Although RMM does not endorse the contents of all these papers, they are great for study, research, digging deeper, broadening your perspectives, and getting up to speed on current issues in theology.

The goal of Reclaiming the Mind Ministries is to make theology accessible. I hope these papers will go a long way in doing so.

Thanks to Zondervan and the Evangelical Theological Society as we have worked together to get this project up-to-date. Special thanks to Mark Warnick who worked out the deal, Richard Sugg who created the database, and Carrie Hunter who helped me categorize these papers.Similar Posts:

ETS Theological Library is Now Complete

C Michael Patton — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:47:03 +0000

ItsÂ finally complete!!!Â The RMM Theological Library.

Hundreds of theological papers online and available for search and download. These are papers from the past 5 years of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) annual meeting. Although RMM does not endorse the contents of all these papers, they are great for study, research, digging deeper, broadening your perspectives, and getting up to speed on current issues in theology.

The goal of Reclaiming the Mind Ministries is to make theology accessible. I hope these papers will go a long way in doing so.

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Become an Official Reclaiming the Mind Rep in Your Church

C Michael Patton — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:17:07 +0000

We need your help! As you know online and onsite classes are beginning September 9, 10, 11. We need you to be the official Reclaiming the Mind Representative at your church. This can be done in many ways. Here is a list from the most simple to the most involved:

Place TTP brochures in your churchâ€™s brochure rack or on a display table.
Set up a TTP booth at your church on the coming Sundays before online classes begin, encouraging them to get involved online and enroll.
Ask if you can make an announcement in your Sunday School, small group, or fellowship about TTP (this is good for those of you who aready have TTP at your church).
Ask if you can make a pulpit announcement giving your testimony about TTP (so long as it is good!) or ask your pastor to make an announcement. Encourage them to enroll this semester!
Travel to each of your Sunday School classes at your church encouraging people to get involved and handing them a brochure.
Travel to churches in your area letting the leaders know about The Theology program and Reclaiming the Mind Ministries.
Facilitate a TTP large group or small group at your church.

We will provide you with the brochures for The Theology Program. Just let us know how many you need and the address to which you would like them sent.

Remember, we could spend thousands of dollars in advertising, but you are our most valuable resource for promotion. Your testimony can inspire many people to join the program and help us make strides in reclaiming the mind to the glory of Christ our savior. Please consider becoming the official RMM/TTP local church representative in your area.

Please let us know how you can get involved. We will help you out in any way. Email me here.

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May 18-21. We are changing servers. Thank you for your patience as we grow.

C Michael Patton — Sun, 20 May 2007 14:47:11 +0000

All ministries of Reclaiming the Mind may experience some minor problems during the change. Please let us know here if you are having any difficulties. Give us some details so that we will know what to fix.

Your comments over the last few days may have been lost in the transfer. You may still be able to get them by going here: www.reclaimingthemind.org/devblog. You can repost them if you find them and I will be back in the saddle, responding to them if neededÂ next week some time.Similar Posts:

Letter from Rhome

C Michael Patton — Fri, 04 May 2007 16:18:20 +0000

As many of you know, Rhome has been out of the country teaching pastors on the mission field for the last few weeks. This is the first email that I have received from him in a long time. Here it is.

Dear Friends, Greetings from the Middle East. I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to give you all an update but things are not always as predictable in Africa as one would like. I’ll give you a brief update but know that everything is going well.

Sudan: This was the most difficult place I have ever been. We did a one week course on Bible Study Methods for a group of 47 pastors.

Southern Sudan has been embroiled in war for at least the last 20 years. There is very little infrastructure, and everything is challenging (finding clean water, very little food, lack of travel because all roads are still full of land mines, militant Islam, no power, etc). The church there faces many tribal problems that run deep through the Sudanese history (all the way back to Isaiah 18). The work was difficult but rewarding. I’ll give more details when I get back. After “escaping” Sudan (I’ll explain more on that later) we had a day in Nairobi, Kenya before heading to Tanzania where I was to catch up on email. Unfortunately every internet café that I went to had there internet down and so rather then catching up at then end of each week, I fell further behind.Mount Kilimanjaro: Having a few days between ministry in Sudan and ministry in Sri Lanka we (a missionary from BEE World and me) set out to climb the tallest mountain in

Africa. The seven day trek required a team of 9 people (2 guides, a cook, 4 porters plus Kevin and myself) and last Friday at 10:50 pm Dallas time I stood at the highest point in all of Africa (19,340 feet above sea level). Besides learning how to live without oxygen (not easy) it was a great experience where I learned a lot. I have never has such a physically demanding 7 days in my entire life. From Tanzania we were off to Sri Lanka (so we thought) and my understanding was that the internet would be readily available and I would be able to catch up. However, what we didn’t know is that while we were climbing Kilimanjaro, the Sri Lankan rebels mounted there first ever air raid against the government (in about 20 years of civil war). Thus they closed the airports and canceled all commercial flights to

Sri Lanka. We only learned this when we were to transfer planes and airlines in Dubai (

United Arab Emirates). Thus the confusion began as to where we were to go and what we were to do.The long and the short of it is that there is no way to get to Sri Lanka and so as soon as I can sort out all of my connections, I’ll be returning home through

Zurich, Switzerland. I am grateful for all of the prayers and look forward to speaking with everyone once I’m back. I’ll now have a few days to catch up on the 487 emails that I managed to fall behind on. Blessings from Dubai,

Rhome Dyck

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Major Milestone for Reclaiming the Mind Ministries

C Michael Patton — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 07:17:03 +0000

Well, considering my last post, this will seem out of place. We have just crossed a major milestone in our web ministry at RMM. In the month of January, we received over 1.5 million hits! True, Rhome and I do sit at home all day and click refresh on our browsers, but that could only account for 1.3 million of the hits. Yes, I am funny.

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CWS Review: Jan 18

C Michael Patton — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:38:06 +0000

If you were not able to make it to Thursday night’s CWS broadcast with Mike Licona, you really missed out. Not only did our new ConnectionGate (CG) program shine brightly, but Mike did a fabulous job talking about the evidences for the resurrection and preparing us for encounters with Muslim objections. I am sorry to you who were not able to make it. I am also sorry that I set the room limit too low. I did not realize that I had done this and I did not know we were going to have such a large showing.

It should be up on the site for download soon. Ed Komozewski did a good job in moderating it–even if I did have to put him in time-out for a few minutes so that I could take over. Hey…CWS is too much fun for just one host.

Here is a report on the audience:

Rhome sat quietly and listened. I hope he took some of it in. I have been working on that guy for five years now.

Ed Kratz ate popcorn, just excited that CG was working.

Taffy’s Darth Vader imitation was handed over to Ed Komo.

Mark Warnick was just surprised to be in the room.

Carrie was busy IMing everyone saying “Isn’t this great!”

Clay, who never has any sound problems said, “I can’t hear anymore” and left.

Korena never asked one question (can you believe it?)

Dr. Sawyer was jealous that he was not on mic so he came in and took over after hours.

Me, I did really well. You should have been there.

That sums it up.

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