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August 10, 2022
Pursuit of Holiness – Chapters 1 & 2
Check out our Bible Study on Jerry Bridges classic book, The Pursuit of Holiness. It is on Amazon as well as part of the Good Questions Have Groups Talking subscription service. Like Netflix for Bible Lessons, one low subscription gives you access to all our lessons–thousands of them. For a medium-sized church, lessons are as […]
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August 9, 2022
Seeing God Everywhere
Peter and his companions were very sleepy, but when they became fully awake, they saw his glory. LUKE 9:32 Frederick Buechner wrote, “As far as I know, there has never been an age that has not produced fairy tales.”[1] He says the reason fairy tales are universal is that they teach us what we most need […]
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August 8, 2022
Overcoming the Messiah Complex
Leon, Joseph, and Clyde all suffered from a messiah complex. It was not just a touch of narcissism or a dash of grandiosity. They were three chronic psychiatric patients at a hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan, all diagnosed with psychotic delusional disorder, grandiose type. Each one maintained he was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Each one […]
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August 7, 2022
The Greatest Sermon Ever
We can safely say that the Sermon on the Mount has been more widely acclaimed than any other sermon ever preached. The seventeenth century preacher Thomas Watson wrote of it: ‘Here is both usefulness and sweetness; here is a garden of delight; here is the golden key which will open the gate of Paradise.’ William […]
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August 5, 2022
Technology and the Bible teacher
There has never been a better time to teach the Bible or lead a Bible study group than there is today. We have incredible tools for Bible study, for outreach, for discipleship, for keeping up with folks. Email. If you are a Bible study leader, email is your friend. I recommend you email your group […]
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August 3, 2022
What is the Bible about?
One of the stories that “go on repeating themselves”—perhaps the Great Story—is the story of the journey. From The Odyssey to The Pilgrim’s Progress to The Divine Comedy to The Wizard of Oz to The Lord of the Rings, an ordinary character leaves home to enter a strange, unknown world. The character faces dangers, toils, […]
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August 1, 2022
Joy and self-denial
The most common objection against the command to pursue joy is that Jesus commanded just the opposite when He called for our self-denial: “Whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it” (Mark 8:35). We have dealt with this already (p. 241), […]
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July 29, 2022
Was Abraham Lincoln a Christian?
Historians have long debated whether Abraham Lincoln was a Christian. Since his death in 1865, he has become a Rorschach test of sorts, upon which everybody projects their own beliefs. (I myself believe Lincoln was most certainly Presbyterian and probably Swedish.) In Michael Burkhimer’s book on the subject, he notes that before you can decide […]
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July 25, 2022
The with-them principle
The Navigators have a principle they call the with-them principle. It is based on Mark 3.14: He appointed twelve–designating them apostles–that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach. Mark 3:14 (NIV) Jesus’ method of making disciples was largely about spending time with them. It was discipleship by hanging […]
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July 20, 2022
Zamperini got saved and so can you
Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. MATTHEW 28:19-20 When Louis Zamperini was thirty-two years old, he got saved. Really saved. It happened this way. He had been a […]
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