Halloween outreach card, give out with Halloween candy or anytime in the coming weeks

The Bible tells us to “make the most of every opportunity” and though it may seem odd to some, Halloween is a fantastic opportunity to share the gospel. It doesn’t matter what your church does or doesn’t do as outreach–many of you will have dozens of kids and families from your neighborhood coming by your […]

A Christmas letter you can use to share Jesus with friends and family

Christians know that Jesus is the reason for the season of Christmas, but sometimes we are at a loss in how to share it with friends and family. One easy way you can do this is to use the Christmas letter, “Hark the Herald Angels Sing…but why?” This letter takes the popular carols and uses […]

Halloween video: link, copy, use for outreach

Following are two versions of a video I created to help people consider Jesus at Halloween. It is a natural time to do that because people are thinking about ghosts, death and all things supernatural. You can click the “share” command on the video to download the code to put on your website or to […]

Pearls before swine….what does that really mean if we are to evangelize our world?

When we started this series on discernment, we asked people in the class give us questions and here is one of them: Jesus said, “Don’t cast your pearls before swine.” On one level I understand this, but on another level, what are pearls? What are swine? How do we discern our “pearls”? How do we […]

Discernment in Theological systems: what about predestination?

In our study of discernment, of how to make the right decisions in the midst of the spiritual warfare that rages around us, this week we looked at discerning theological systems. Here is the questions we looked at: Question: [following a lesson taught] “God knows who is going to be saved and who isn’t. So were […]

The Mormon Celebration of Easter, very different than the one Biblical Christians celebrate

The Mormon Church celebrates the resurrection and therefore Easter, but their celebration of it has a totally different meaning to them than it does to Biblical Christians. They can say they believe in Jesus and the resurrection and that he died for people and rose, but they put totally different meanings into all these terms. […]

Website Links for sharing your faith and growing in the Christian life

Intro note: I put this together about 3 years ago and though most of the links are good, as I’m doing a quick clean up of this site before changing the template I didn’t have time to check them all out so please forgive me, also PLEASE add additional resources in the comments section–I know […]

A gentle, yet wise and challenging response to the idea that everyone gets to heaven

We are told and often falsely believe that it isn’t kind or loving to think that God will send some people to hell. In the brief video below Rick McKinley, lead pastor of Imago Dei Community in Portland, Oregon, offers a biblical perspective on the flaws of universalism. Universalism from :redux on Vimeo. “The disciples […]