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Were the three kings kings?

The song “We Three Kings of Orient Are” is a minor Christmas carol. Yet “We Three Kings” has flaws, even in the title: the Magi were not kings, and Matthew never says they were a trio. No one knows how many there were. Matthew simply tells us, “After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, […]

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Your God Is Too Small

I am positively sure after many years of observation and prayer that the basis of all of our trouble today, in religious circles, is that our God is too small. When he says magnify the Lord, he doesn’t mean that you are to make God big, but you are to see Him big. When we […]

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A Good Sunday School Lesson Makes People Laugh

In a healthy class, much of this laughter will come from the spontaneous outpouring of a group enjoying being together. It never hurts, however, to look up a few funny stories to include in every  lesson. It is the rare communicator who can connect with an audience without humor. I think Andy Stanley said that. […]

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Is God pleased with our churches?

I have just completed a nine-session Bible study based on Francis Chan’s new book, Letters to the Church. It is available on Amazon in both print and Kindle versions, as well as part of my Good Questions Have Groups Talking Subscription plan. The idea is to invite each participant to purchase their own book. Sessions […]

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Why Francis Chan Left His Megachurch

Imagine you find yourself stranded on a deserted island with nothing but a copy of the Bible. You have no experience with Christianity whatsoever, and all you know about the Church will come from your reading of the Bible. How would you imagine a church to function? Seriously. Close your eyes for two minutes and […]

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Overcoming doubt

While he was in college, my friend Ken Davis delivered a talk to his speech class on the law of the pendulum. This law says that when a free-hanging weight swings back and forth, it will swing a shorter and shorter distance due to the effects of gravity and friction. Eventually it will stop and […]

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Francis Chan on Doubling Groups

I write Bible lessons designed to make it easy to double. If you can read 20 questions, you can lead a small group. See www.MyBibleStudyLessons.com

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The Grace of God

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines Him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self- existent principle inherent in the divine nature and appears to us as a self-caused propensity to pity the wretched, spare the guilty, welcome the outcast, and bring into favor those who were before under just […]

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Free Christmas Lesson

I bought a half-dozen new books to supply you with some great material for a Christmas lesson. Best of all, it is free. Click here. If you like this lesson, you might subscribe to Good Questions Have Groups Talking. Church subscriptions are as low as $10 per teacher per year. Crazy, I know. Check them […]

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But God…

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