I would appreciate any thoughts and/or suggestions for a wide-margin Bible for in-depth studies. Thanks so very much. tonyb
Read more…Make disciples, is it an order to a group or to everyone who become a christian ?
Read more…A popular idea is that Jesus is a friend to everyone; but who does Jesus himself say his friends are? If you take a minute to look up his words in John 15:14, you will find that he said: “You are my friends if you do what I command.” If that i
Read more…My heart is breaking. Lately, I have been hearing about several situations in a church where marriages are splitting up and as the spouses go off to do something to further destroy their marriage, they are proclaiming that "The Holy Spirit is leadi
Read more…I was reading 1 Corinthians 2 this morning and found myself stopping to meditate on verse 16. I thought I'd share the question that came to mind and see what your thoughts are...
What does it mean to have the mind of Christ?
Read more…My church is hosting an interfaith service to include Muslim, Jewish, "Yoga," Catholic, and a smattering of various Christian denominations. I have some mixed feelings. What do others think of these kind of events?
The crisis at the heart of the church is that we talk about making disciples, but we seldom do it.
Making disciples is not just for pastors, ministers, or super Christians. Making disciples is the responsibility, privilege and great joy intended
Read more…Just lost a loved one and would like words of encouragement from the Bible.
Read more…I am a leaader in a small international church in the Netherlands, we have a very diverse group of people attending in a very diverse community that attracks many international students and expat business people.
We are looking for the best Investi
Read more…The following is an excerpt from the document entitled The Cape Town Commitment: A Confession of Faith and a Call To Action from the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization conducted last fall.
Some 4,000 leaders from 198 countries attended
THESE DAYS I CAN NOT STOP TO WONDER.......IS THIS THE CHURCH JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR? THERE IS SO MUCH DECAY AND RUT IN THE GLOBAL CHURCH TODAY. AS THE LORD GRATS ME OPEN DOOR AND PRIVELEDGE TO SHARE HIS WORD AROUND, ALL I CAN SEE IS SERIOUS DECAY. SI
Read more…Would love to hear your thoughts about this video. Simple. Short. Powerful.
Video: http://coregroups.org/videos.html
Read more…Just thought I'd post an update on our church's progress toward higher disciple participation. We are moving in a positive direction. We've been incorporating the Jesus Christ Disciplemaker model into several places in our ministry. We led works
Read more…Is this the beginning of the peace talked about in Daniel?
As I understand it - but could be confused:
The seven year end-times period begins with the peace treaty of prophecy (called the covenant with death). The peace treaty will be between Israe
Read more…Has anyone else experienced periods of time where it seems like God sidelined you for a while to work on some things in your own life. And then when you felt called to get back in the game, you felt a sense of inadequacy or it seemed that there wer
Read more…Hi, everyone! Just wanted to tell you the new fun thing I am doing: leading an adult study of the hymns (and psalms and spiritual songs!) called "Sing Praise to God." I am writing it as I give it, and envision having 9 sessions in total. Does anyone
Read more…I've read the book Every Man's Battle By Stephen Arterburn, Fred Stoeker, Mike Yorkey. I've found a lot of really helpful tips and advice in it, but yet I feel like the book focuses a little too much on my effort and "purity techniques" and not enoug
Read more…Just finished Piper's new book, THINK. It is a wonderful call for us - individually and collectively as the Church - to think, to read, to reason, to meditate on our faith and on the glories of our God and our Savior Jesus the Christ. I found myself
Read more…In the Cell meeting I am attending, we studying Mathew 5, 6 and 7. Because of the richness and depth of the passages, we end up doing only one verse per session (one and half hours). The encouragement is that we look at a passage and see what the dif
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