Each New Year’s Day since 2014, I’ve chosen three words to give me focus and direction for the upcoming year. Coming out of the most troubling year of my lifetime, the pandemic year of 2020, one overarching word that the world needs is hope. We have that hope in the Gospel, but it’s so easy to forget …
Our team at Christianity Explored Ministries in London have been working to produce our most popular course, Christianity Explored, into a plan for the YouVersion Bible app. Our goal for this plan is that it will equip you to open up Scripture and explore Jesus with anyone in the world. The plan is a 21-day …
"The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer In a year so crazy the phrase, "It's 2020" has become a synonymous with bad news, many of us are caught in a …
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"Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you." - 1 Thessalonians 5:18 (ESV) A global pandemic, a bitterly contested election, separation from loved ones, economic uncertainty, a divided country, worship services at reduced capacity – maybe God will give us a pass on giving thanks this …
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In October, Kevin and Beth Allen and I traveled to Colorado for some database training and to meet with several local pastors and course leaders of Christianity Explored. Colorado Springs is home to one of the pioneer churches for CE in the States - Village Seven Presbyterian Church, which adopted the new ministry coming out …
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