It is impossible for a human to achieve perfection in this life, to hold ourselves together and live totally devoid of sin.
A set of five evangelistic studies, all based in Mark's Gospel, designed to present the Christian gospel in a one-to-one Bible study setting. This version interacts with the highly popular The Aussie Bible (by Kel Richards).
At first glance, it seems like the Book of Acts ends with an anticlimax. But, as Mike Leite reminds us, that’s because the Book of Acts is not yet finished.
Do you know about and care about the Christian ministries your congregation members are engaged in that are outside the programs of your church?
Last year my wife Fiona and I led a growth group together at church. It was a wonderful experience but also very challenging. My chemo cycles meant that I tended to be absent roughly one week in three, and sometimes I wouldn’t know how I’d be until that
Most of us reading this have privileges that other people around the world only dream of. These are good gifts from God, and we ought to thank him. But has it become too much of a good thing?
Christian leadership involves a lot of words: sermons preached, Bible studies led, meetings with individuals, families and teams. Words are the pastor’s tools of trade. It makes a lot of sense since words are of crucial importance to Christian people—after all we trust a God who speaks! It means that fundamental to Christian spiritually is
Easter is a time of heightened persecution for many believers around the world. Many Christians who meet together do so at great risk.
Easter reminds me of the most embarrassing moment of my life: the time I brought a dead man back to life just by touching him. I think it is the shock, surprise, and comedy of Easter that remind me of that day.
Giving someone a Bible when they don’t know Jesus (yet) is a great idea, but by itself it may not be as effective at saving souls as we’d think.