The world has positive value in God’s eyes, simply because it was created by him. As humans rule, we have to remember that we are ruling something God has made and that God believes is good.
If you’ve preached more than, say, a dozen sermons you’ve certainly experienced mental fog. This phenomenon can cause you to panic in the pulpit, and in your panic you can make your sermon much worse.
‘Proselytism’ is on the nose in our allegedly tolerant world, increasingly proscribed or restricted by law or administrative policy. Mostly the word is left undefined, open to great subjectivity. Some think of it merely as seeking to persuade others of the merits of a religion, with a view to
The Daily Reading Bible is an all-in-one resource and a good way to get started or keep going in your daily reading of the Bible.
You could change the world, just like Albert McMakin did when he asked a young man he knew to an evangelistic event.
Bible verses are hard to remember, because you’re trying to hang a tiny shred of Scripture on the flimsy hook of an arbitrary chapter and verse number. They lack context, which makes them not only harder to remember but less useful for disciple-making ministry, and potentially dangerous.
I wrote earlier about how it's good for people to pray out loud in our small groups, and then gave a few tips for helping group members to do so. Here are some more ideas for encouragement, modelling, and sharing in prayer. Divide the group into smaller groups of twos or
A stirring book for new and established Christians about what it means (and what it's like) to live the Christian life ... to live 'right side up'.
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
First, how do we assess whether our group members are converted? And, second, what do we do about it if we’re unsure about someone in our group?