Summary

Church leaders and other saints in our congregations frequently find themselves struggling with money, technology, politics, the institutional church, etc. - what the Bible calls "principalities and powers."

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Details

This workshop will helped us understand them better and then focused on what preachers can do to equip congregants to expose, disarm, and stand against the powers.

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Presented at the 2009 Calvin Symposium on Worship.

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