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Are Good Question Bible Study Lessons for you?

I received the following email from a Good Questions subscriber recently: We have talked several times over the last three or four years since I started using your lessons to lead my Sunday School class. I say lead because I truly do not teach I lead a discussion and let the class members lead each […]

The easiest spiritual discipline

The easiest of the Disciplines related to the intake of God’s Word is simply hearing it. Why consider this a Discipline? Because if we don’t discipline ourselves to hear God’s Word regularly, we may only hear it accidentally, just when we feel like it, or we may never hear it at all. For most of […]

The most important spiritual discipline

No Spiritual Discipline is more important than the intake of God’s Word. Nothing can substitute for it. There simply is no healthy Christian life apart from a diet of the milk and meat of Scripture. The reasons for this are obvious. In the Bible God tells us about Himself, and especially about Jesus Christ, the […]

Are My Good Question Bible Lessons for you?

I received the following email from a Good Questions subscriber recently: We have talked several times over the last three or four years since I started using your lessons to lead my Sunday School class. I say lead because I truly do not teach I lead a discussion and let the class members lead each […]

The key to finishing well

A few years ago, I did a leadership conference for pastors in Albuquerque, New Mexico. While I was there, I talked with a pastor friend from Houston, Texas, named John Basagno about the subject of finishing well. As we chatted, he showed me an old, well–worn Bible and said, “John, I received the call to […]

4 Habits

Success in discipleship is mostly about habits. If we develop the habit of daily Quiet Time, the habit of gratitude, the habit of service, and the habit of exercise, we will be well on our way to becoming a mature disciple. This five-week Small Group Bible study will guide your group through the following topics: […]

Do you need a M.E.?

If you are between Ministers of Education, this may be a perfect time to do a six-month Sunday School Tune-up. Here is what I have in mind. I would like to come out once a month for six months and work with your Sunday School to get it in tip-top shape. Each trip will be […]

Transformed by sovereign grace

Perhaps you are not interested in all this. Perhaps you think you will settle for going to church, getting your ticket to Heaven, trying to live a decent life and leaving the John 10.10 living to the super-saints. I have some bad news. If you take this approach, you set yourself on a collision course […]

Transformed by pain

We are all motivated by two things: pain and pleasure. We are motivated toward pleasure; we are motivated to avoid pain. Look carefully at this familiar passage. See what it teaches us about pain avoidance: I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears […]

Transformation by speaking the truth

Let me misquote a verse. See if you can catch the mistake: Instead, hearing the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. Ephesians 4:15 (misquoted) Here is the correct verse: Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow […]