Commit to infuse vine work into your regular responsibilities, whether this means in your committee meetings, family car rides, one-to-one meetings, setting up chairs or counselling.
Readers often forget that this book exists to teach us about God, not just about life without God.
This article continues on from How to train Bible study leaders: Who should we train? In this article, we are focusing on leading a Bible study, but training in the biblical sense always involves the whole of the Christian life. That is, training is a 'total
From the author of The Trellis and the Vine comes an opportunity to pause and take stock of our lives, and to discover the life-changing purpose that God has for each one of us.
What if you faithfully obey Philippians 4 and yet your heart is still racing, your mind is still whirring, and you just can’t ‘turn off’ the worry switch?
While apparently my Aussie brethren have been proficient in one-to-one Bible reading (121BR) for decades, many of us Yankees are still discovering it. Though I grew up in a conservative, Bible-believing church and even attended Bible College, I had never seen or experienced or even heard of 121BR until after
Michael Bennett’s book is brilliant. I loved it. Let me tell you why.
When Jesus arrived in Jerusalem, he wept bitterly over the people and spoke about the temple’s imminent obliteration, in part because the temple was operating as a “den of robbers” (Luke 19:41-46). The inspection grade was a clear fail!
Sunday is coming. Again. This is the joyful and often stressful reality for the music minister. When is the band rehearsing this week? Did I remember to send out those schedules and pieces of music? Who is doing the special music? Are there enough creative elements to support the sermon?
In Isaiah 62, God says he is on the move: “I will not keep silent because of Zion, and I will not keep still because of Jerusalem...” * He is going to do something big. A nation that is “deserted” and “desolate” will soon “be called My Delight is in