Using technology for kingdom purposes can be highly effective, but all too often it becomes a vehicle for broadcasting ourselves.
In this excerpt adapted from Facing Leviathan, Mark Sayers grapples with using social media as a means to communicate the gospel—and challenges readers to consider who should control how far and wide our influence goes. (more…)
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This is a post by guest author Lindsay Kennedy.
The Bible has a lot to say about angels. The problem is, few Christians seem interested in hearing about it.
For whatever reason, many Christians have a dismissive attitude when it comes to angels. But here are three reasons—drawn from Michael Heiser’s new book, Angels—on why every Christian should care about angels. [Read more…]
In the developed world, having a church website is a given. Most of us instinctively know this.
But why? Why are church websites important, and how does the answer inform how you construct your site?
These principles spell the difference between inviting someone to join your church’s mission and communicating (accidentally), “Please don’t come here.”
In this excerpt from Soul Rest—which you can get free on audio with a purchase of three books—author Curtis Zackery describes a common struggle we all know: reverting back to the habits we’re trying to change. [Read more…]
When we decided to curate a list of resources for every book of the Bible, one of our priorities was to choose resources that would help people comprehend the most difficult books of the Bible.
All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for helping Christians mature and better obey God (2 Tim 3:16–17), so we should study all of it.
Here are five books of the Bible that might stump you on an initial read, with keys to help you unlock the book, plus resources for going deeper.
Part of the beauty of Christianity is in its enduring relevance for all people in every age.
Charles Octavius Boothe (1845–1924), an African-American man born into slavery and later freed, became a pastor to help average or uneducated people understand the gospel message.
In this excerpt adapted from Plain Theology for Plain People, Boothe explains how Christ’s resurrection relates to a firm, unshakeable faith.
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It will be seen that from the resurrection of Christ there followed several exceedingly important results.
It established his perfect truthfulness. He had foretold that he would rise again within a specified time, and also within a very brief time. As he went out to the Mount of Olives, he had made a distinct promise to his disciples that, after rising again, he would go before them into Galilee. Some of them seem to have been very slow of understanding. For as Peter, James, and John came down with the Lord from the mount of transfiguration:
He charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead. And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean. (Mark 9:9, 10).
But after the promise made on the way to the Mount of Olives, they probably had more correct views. All that he had said to them would probably be remembered, and the fulfillment of his promise was a convincing proof of his truthfulness. They would naturally say of every other gracious word that he had spoken: “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptance.” A failure to fulfill one promise would have opened the way in their minds to doubts as to all his promises and all of his teaching.
A failure to fulfill one promise would have opened the way in their minds to doubts as to all his promises and all of his teaching.
Again, Jesus Christ was “declared to be the Son of God, with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.” It was God’s testimony to his Sonship, and to his own full satisfaction with what Jesus had done as the substitute of sinners in bearing their sin in his own body on the cross.
The way thus was prepared for calling on men to believe on the Lord Jesus, with a faith firm, strong, and that cannot be shaken—a faith that honors God our Savior and gives rest to the troubled soul.1
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Tune in as popular Bible teacher Elyse Fitzpatrick leads an all-day conference on the topic of idolatry. [Read more…]
Ask several people how they’re doing and it won’t take long until you hear, “Busy.”
In this excerpt from October’s free book, Crazy Busy, Kevin DeYoung makes us pause to consider what dangers our busyness may be concealing. [Read more…]
Fifty years ago, Voice of the Martyrs released the book Tortured for Christ, an autobiographical account of Christian persecution under Communist Romania. [Read more…]