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By Jay Hewitt Editor’s Note: After receiving a devastating brain cancer diagnosis, Jay Hewitt made the momentous decision to compete in an IRONMAN triathlon while undergoing cancer treatment. This post, adapted from his book I Am Weak, I Am Strong, talks about the courage he found from a supportive community of believers to press on […]
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By Craig Groeschel What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. —Albert Pike A while back, I bumped into an older lady who recognized me as the pastor of Life.Church. She explained that she was a member of another church […]
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By John Siebeling and Wayne Francis Editor’s Note: The following content is excerpted from God and Race by John Siebeling and Wayne Francis (HarperChristian Resources, 2021) “At the end of the Bible, in the book of Revelation, we get an amazing glimpse of God’s plan for race: ‘After this I looked, and there before me […]
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Saint Patrick is not an officially canonized saint by the Catholic church, his birth name was Maewyn Succat (or Sucat), and he wasn’t originally from Ireland. He was born at the end of the 4th century in what is now Dumbarton, Scotland (northwest of Glasgow). By his own admission, he ignored Christianity until he was […]
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By John Sawyer How did the early church reach “all the residents of Asia, both Jews and Greeks” (Acts 19:10) with the gospel in just two years? That’s about 15 million people! And in Romans 15:19-23 the apostle Paul states that from Jerusalem all the way to Illyricum there is no place left for his […]
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According to the World Christian Encyclopedia, the global Christian population totals 2.5 billion people. To help in the comprehension of that number, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary’s Center for the Study of Global Christianity (@CSGC) has compressed it into this graphic as if 100 Christians represented all of global Christianity:
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The only Bible in the New International Version (NIV) translation that matches page-for-page with its corresponding church pew Bible and is set in a numbered verse-by-verse format is now available. [See Bible Gateway’s Resource Page for Pastors] The NIV Preacher’s Bible (Zondervan, 2020) is the first NIV Bible that allows pastors to be on the […]
Pastors, church leaders, and serious-minded Christians now have a new online source of biblical learning: ExegeticalPreaching.com, a blog dedicated to the critical explanation and interpretation of Scripture. [Sign up to receive the free email daily Bible verse in the NASB translation from Bible Gateway] Using the New American Standard Bible, 1995 Edition (NASB) (NASB ’95 […]
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If you had to select 33 objects throughout history to represent the birth, growth, and effectiveness of Christianity, what would you choose to best reflect God’s enduring grace through the centuries? And what narrative would you write that would weave them all together in telling the story of what God is accomplishing in the world? […]
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“If one part [of the Body of Christ] suffers, every part suffers with it.” 1 Corinthians 12:26 The world has become less tolerant and less safe for hundreds of millions of Christians. Based on current statistics, every day around the world … 8 Christians are killed for their faith 23 Christians are raped or sexually […]
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