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The Alien Files

If you are a friend of Jesus, then you are no friend of this world. Yet we followers of Christ sometimes squirm and worry when we feel like we don't fit in. Join Steven as he explores these "Alien files," Bible stories about God loving, choosing and using the alien.

  
             
  September 2002  

#1—Exodus 2-4
Moses: man without a country
It is sometimes the alien among us that God chooses for a special redemptive role
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  October 2002   #2—Book of Esther
Esther: an alien in queen's clothing
For Esther there was a time when she had to clearly take a stand
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  November 2002   #3—Book of Ruth
Ruth: who invited her?
Ruth's story is a scandal — marriage between the races?
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  December 2002   #4—Philippians 2:1-11
Jesus: divine Alien
If Jesus joined our church today would we expect him to act just like us?
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  January/February 2003  

#5—Matthew 2:1-12
The Magi: strangers bearing gifts
Sometimes we desperately need the eyes of the alien to help us see things the way they really are
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  March 2003  

#6—Acts 16:6-15
Lydia: voluntary alien
Lydia was brave enough to go into unfamiliar country and generous enough to share her heart, her family and her home
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  April 2003   #7—Children: our own little aliens
Too many grown-ups think it's "our church"
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  May 2003   #8—Cornelius: a soldier seeking God
How do we as God's people treat the alien who comes to us?
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  June 2003   #9—Paul: bridging between two worlds
Bicultural believers are key players in God's ever expanding mission to the world
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  July/August 2003   #10—Xenophile hospitality: loving the alien
"You shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt"
— Leviticus 19:34
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