1. A Few Good Men ebook - 50% off!
Get the ebook version of A Few Good Men by Richard Coekin for just £3!
2. Preaching Matters: Kevin DeYoung: Expository Preaching
A video on expository preaching, it’s strengths and weaknesses.
3. 10 Reasons to Avoid Sexual Immorality
Peter Krol looks at 10 reasons from Proverbs 6:24-35.
4. Infographic: Every dream in the Bible
An infographic about all the dreams in the Bible and what they mean.
5. UCCF starts planning for Uncover John
UCCF announce they have started planning for the next Uncover Gospel Project.
6. And finally...
This week's video of the week, ‘Making of The Third Day’:
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Among my friends, it tends to be a toss-up: chocolate, alcohol or social media. They’re the three things that do the most noticeable damage to their waistlines or their ability to progress through their to-do lists and Lent is an ideal time to give them a break. Sometimes there are benefits: increased health, a few extra pounds in the wallet and a shift of emphasis from Candy Crush to quality time with elderly relatives, temporarily at least … Come the end of April they are usually back to multiple nibbles and the latest addictive game.... continue reading
All of us need something to aspire to. We all benefit from someone to inspire us at times. But who do we want to be like? What are we going to aim at? Around us these days are so many "negative" influences, you'd be forgiven for crumbling under the weight of them. However in his book, A Few Good Men, Richard Coekin lifts from the Bible examples of men who face similar struggles to us but who in the light of those struggles give us positive, godly examples of how to cope with life.
Read more HERE and get the ebook for just £3 until midday on Thursday. Use code afgm0314 at the checkout.
Lent is nearly upon us and my preparations are going well. The batter (shop bought to avoid the colossal lumps of previous years) is in the fridge - my lemon and sugar are at the ready. And, because I like slightly savoury pancakes too, the bacon, maple syrup and strawberries have been purchased as well (really, try it, I was skeptical at first but it’s a great combination!). I love the food of Shrove Tuesday. I enjoy my feeble attempts that unfailingly result in mangled pancake adorning my kitchen floor. I even quite enjoy laughing at the smoke that billows around the rest of my home in the wake of overheated oil…
But no matter how much I enjoy them, pancakes provide nothing of lasting value. Some giggles, a few moments of culinary delight, a minor elevation in cholesterol levels and a large pile of sticky washing up is hardly a recipe for overwhelming edification. In order to prepare for a meaningful Easter, my passion needs to be focused elsewhere.... continue reading
“The most helpful thing anyone’s told me about evangelism is…”
How would you complete that sentence? I’ve been a Christian for almost fourteen years, and when it comes to evangelism I’ve felt in turns fired-up, complacent, defeated, useless, proud, guilty and privileged. I’ve read books, I’ve heard sermons, I’ve been to training days, I’ve drunk in new techniques. And in all that time, the most helpful, liberating and motivating thing anyone’s told me about evangelism is…... continue reading
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will – to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding, he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfilment – to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.
Ephesians 1:3-10
The blogosphere (or at least the Christian bit of it) has lit up this week in response to Steve Chalke's latest pronouncement, this time on his view that the Bible contains mistakes and that sometimes when God is recorded as speaking, he in fact was being misheard.
This blog ends up with the serious matter of Steve Chalke and what the Bible actually is, but begins with the considerable hilarity around the office as several of us have taken an online test to see whether our actual beliefs match up to the policies of any particular political party.The results have been interesting.
Last week, on The Good Book Blog, we looked at the two newest titles in our Questions Christians Ask series - Why did Jesus have to die? and Is forgiveness really free? That brings the series to six titles now and there will be more following shortly. We gave you a great deal on the back catalogue ebooks on Tuesday but I know some of you prefer the tree book option so here is an amazing deal for you!
Again, celebrating the new releases in the series, we're giving you the chance to get the four back catalogue titles as a bundle for just £4.99!
That means ALL of these great titles for less than a fiver:
Read more about the books HERE. To purchase this great bundle, just use the code qcab0214 at the checkout. But hurry - the offer ends midday Monday.
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Shock. Fear. Anger. Denial. Devastation. Panic. Emptiness.
Powerful words. Strong emotions. But that can be what happens when someone is diagnosed with a terminal illness. That moment when we learn a cancer or degenerative disease has passed the point of no return has to be one of the scariest moments any human can experience.
We know mortality will catch up with us one day. Unless Jesus returns within the next few decades, there is no getting away from the fact we will die. But most of us want to assume that day is a long time in the future. When the doctor gives us – or someone we love – the news that there are only months left, we can feel as if everything has been ripped apart. Our plans, our dreams, our relationships, our very beings torn in two.... continue reading
