3 Modern Ideas for Sharing the Gospel
This past Saturday was our annual neighborhood yard sale. When the weather is favorable (as it was this year) the event can attract several hundred people. This is, of course, a perfect opportunity to share the Gospel message with a world that so desperately needs the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s also a great opportunity to involve the entire family in the effort: my wife organized and set up several tables with the usual garage sale items, my children set up an ice cream stand, and I set up the Gospel table.
In the above picture of the Gospel table I numbered three specific ideas that you could incorporate into a similar effort:
Read MoreTitus 2:1-2 Walking the Walk
This is the 12th video in a series of teaching videos on the book of Titus. You can find the first video here.
Is it enough to know what you believe or does it matter how you live it?
In this latest instalment of this book Paul starts a section where he instructs Titus to teach the believers how to live. Knowing lots is good– but it is useless unless it changes how you live.
What a challenge!
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To be continued…
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Read MoreHow To Do A Word Study With Digital Tools
I’ve been highlighting tools that can be used to do an effective Bible Study and so far we’ve underscored reading the text. Repeatedly. And taking notes while reading. But now I want to highlight how a person might want to examine the meanings of words.
One of your better tools is the English dictionary. If you’re using the KJV, this winds up being more difficult but the point here is that words mean something and sometimes our misreading can be predicated on what we think a word means.
- Free: Dictionaries are readily available online at several sites (m-w, dictionary.com, the Free Dictionary).
- Not-Free: More expensive programs have dictionaries but I find it easier just to hop over to Websters online.
Sometimes, folk want to see the meaning of the original language by examining a word, like the word love or church (for example).
I don’t think that this is the best way for most of us to study the Bible.
Read MoreWhich Church? Does My Church Match The New Testament Pattern?
As stated in the introduction, this series of posts have been framed with the newly saved person in mind, but we all have to take stock of our ecclesiastical position.
Ask the question, “does the group I am linked with match the New Testament pattern?” If not, you have a responsibility to respond to the teaching of Scripture and to meet with believers whose principles of gathering correspond to that biblical pattern.
Obviously this study has not been exhaustive, but be like the people of Berea, who “searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so”, Acts 17:11.
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To be continued…
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Read MoreShort and Sweet: Ways to Encourage
How many times have you thought about someone and wanted to give them some encouragement? Often when that happens we get distracted and easily forget to actually make it happen. Here are a few suggestions for sending a note of encouragement to others using the internet and technology. Remember it doesn’t have to be long. Often an uplifting verse and a short note is all that is needed to make a difference in someone’s day.
Email: This is a perfect way to encourage because it is quick and easy. If you have a few people in mind then send one email to several people and put your address in the “To” section and their addresses in the “BCC” section of the email (Blind Carbon Copy). This means that none of the other recipients will see who is receiving the email.
Facebook: If the person you are thinking about is a friend on Facebook then send them a private message. If you want to encourage them in a way that will benefit others then post it on their wall. Just remember to be discreet and not share any information that might be sensitive and private.
Text: Quick and easy, this is a great just to say you are thinking about someone and to let them know that they are important.
Telephone: many people still prefer this method of communication. It’s personal but does require a greater time commitment. For those times when you feel an extra special sense to reach out to someone this is often the best way.
The main point is that with many methods there isn’t any excuse now not to encourage someone on your mind. So let’s be more intentional about blessing one another and building each other up!!
Read MoreJottings – Radical Faith
What a lowering of the life of faith it is to confine it to the question of temporal supplies! No doubt it is a very blessed and a very real thing to trust God for everything; but the life of faith has a far higher and wider range than mere bodily wants. It embraces all that in any wise concerns us, in body, soul, and spirit. To live by faith is to walk with God; to cling to Him; to lean on Him; to draw from His exhaustless springs; to find all our resources in Him; and to have Him as a perfect covering for our eyes and a satisfying object for our hearts — to know Him as our only resource in all difficulties, and in all our trials. It is to be absolutely, completely, and continually shut up to Him; to be undividedly dependent upon Him, apart from and above every creature confidence, every human hope, and every earthly expectation.
C. H. Mackintosh, “Living By Faith”, http://www.stempublishing.com/authors/mackintosh/Bk6/LIVINGBY.html Accessed on April 24, 2012.
Read MoreEntry Level Theological Truth [25]
“…Lest you die.” Genesis 3:3
“There’s nothing certain except death and taxes” says the familiar adage, but why is that so? People of every race, nationality, socioeconomic and educational level die. One out of every one dies in our world today; these are easy statistics for the mathematically challenged (like this author.) How does one account for the ubiquity of death in our world? Genesis 3 gives the answer.
Read MoreJottings – Radical Discipleship
“So likewise, whoever does not forsake all that he has cannot be my disciple” Luke 14:33.
To be a disciple of the Lord Jesus, one must forsake all. This is the unmistakable meaning of the words of the Savior. No matter how much we might object to such an “extreme” demand, no matter how much we might rebel against such an “impossible” and “unwise” policy, the fact remains that this is the Word of the Lord, and He means what He says.
William MacDonald, True Discipleship, Port Colborne, ON: Gospel Folio Press, 2003. p. 17.
Read MoreThe Top 5 iPad Apps For Christians
My most recent post is available over at the newly launched Why We Web Blog. In the post I explore five very helpful iPad apps for believers:
If you own an iPad, and you’re not using any of these apps then check out the full post here.
Read MoreTitus 2:1-10 An Overview
This is the eleventh video in a series of teaching videos on the book of Titus. You can find the first video here.
If you have been following this series of Bible teaching on Titus you will be glad to know that we have progressed to Titus chapter two. This becomes really practical. When you live as a Christian you either add value to what you claim to believe or you detract from it.
Paul instructs Titus to teach the believers on the island of Crete not just what to believe but how to live a life which makes what they believe look attractive.
Challenge: Are you a value adding Christian or a doctrine destroying Christian? Watch to discover how this works.
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