Regional Conference in Portland, OR 

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One of GES’ ministries is conducting regional conferences in various locations. Some people can’t attend the national conference in Texas for various reasons. These regional conferences give people interested in GES’ ministry an opportunity to attend a Free Grace conference closer to home. Each regional is a little bit different, as the hosting church has
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Lessons from a Penitentiary 

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I like to study history. Recently, I had the opportunity to study it at a unique place: the old State Penitentiary of Idaho. It housed prisoners from the closing years of the 19th century until around 1970. When it executed people, it did so through hanging. As you might expect, there were various photos of
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Do You Know What a Biblical Type Is? 

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When people go to Bible college or seminary, they learn the meaning of words that the general public often doesn’t know. When taking Biblical Greek, my classmates and I commented that we learned English grammar while we were learning Greek grammar. The word type is well-known to theologians. Merriam-Webster says that one meaning of type
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Wamura’s Wall 

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In the 1960’s, a man named Kotoko Wamura governed the Japanese town of Fudai. During his years as mayor, he commissioned the construction of a seawall. Due to tsunamis in the region, many coastal towns like Fudai have seawalls, but Wamura’s wall was considered an overreaction, towering over fifty feet tall. It was the largest
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Regional Conference in Idaho 

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On Mar 9-10, GES conducted a regional conference in Boise, ID at Lake Hazel Bible Church. The topic was Jesus’ parables. We tried to pick parables that are either difficult to interpret or that are often misunderstood. In addition, I did a session on the basics of Free Grace Theology in case there were some
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