It’s a huge question, isn’t it? Hardly a day goes by when we don’t come across suffering. Devastation caused by earthquakes and tsunamis… millions living in poverty… children being abused… family breakdowns… bullying… people suffer. We suffer. So it’s right to say to God: “God, if you’re there, why don’t you do something about it?”... continue reading
Don Carson introduces Gospel Shaped Outreach:
Gospel Shaped Outreach is part of Gospel Shaped Church - a brand new curriculum from The Gospel Coalition and The Good Book Company.... continue reading
Don Carson introduces Gospel Shaped Worship:
Gospel Shaped Worship is part of Gospel Shaped Church - a brand new curriculum from The Gospel Coalition and The Good Book Company.... continue reading
We’re excited to be at The Gospel Coalition’s National Conference in Orlando this week. Here are five new resources we’re launching at the conference that you can now get your hands on:
1. Daniel For You by David Helm
We live in difficult times to be people who obey God and worship him alone. How can we be confident under pressure and faithful in the fire?
In Daniel For You, this readable, accessible, exciting volume walking through one of the best-loved books of the Bible, David Helm shows how Daniel and his friends learned how to live in Babylon, far from their home in God's land—and how we can do the same.... continue reading
Gospel Shaped Church, a brand new resource from The Gospel Coalition and The Good Book Company launches tonight at Coming Home: TGC National Conference 2015.
Click on the links below to watch Session 1 of both Gospel Shaped Worship and Gospel Shaped Outreach for free.
Watch Session 1 of Gospel Shaped Worship for free
Watch Session 1 of Gospel Shaped Outreach for free
The Gospel Coalition is a group of pastors and churches in the Reformed heritage who delight in the truth and power of the gospel, and who want the gospel of Christ crucified and resurrected to lie at the center of all we cherish, preach and teach.
We want churches called into existence by the gospel to be shaped by the gospel in their everyday life. Through our fellowship, conferences, and online and printed media, we have sought to encourage pastors and church leaders to calibrate their lives around what is of first importance—the gospel of Christ. In these resources, we want to provide those same pastors with the tools to excite and equip church members with this mindset.... continue reading
The Good Book Company Team setting up for The Gospel Coalition National Conference 2015.
Watch the live stream of the conference: http://live.tgc.org/
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D.A. Carson, in his Foreword to Rico Tice’s new book Honest Evangelism, writes:
“Christians are increasingly dismissed as intellectually inferior, narrow and blind, who should be ignored and, perhaps, suppressed … In a polarized culture where Christian convictions are not in good odor, where are courage and joy in Christian witness to be found? What does Christian witness look like—both in the hard times when the mockery becomes savage, and in the good times when people are transformed by the gospel?”
The progress of the States, and indeed the whole of the West, toward a post- Christendom directed by increasingly assertive secularism and atheism represents both a challenge and an opportunity for gospel-loving churches. In a way that American believers have not had to contend with for generations, to live as a Christian—... continue reading
Tim Keller answers this commonly asked question:
The resurrection of Jesus Christ probably is the thing that sets Christianity apart—because the other religions bring you a prophet or they bring you a sage, and they say: “This is the way to find God.” So in that sense they're all the same.
Christianity comes along and says: “This person IS God, and he was raised from the dead to prove it.”
And that is just a different category and you have to come to grips with that to be a Christian, and also it does force you in a way to grapple with it. Instead of saying: “I like this religion because it meets my needs” or: “I like these thoughts,” you have to say: “Did it happen or not?”... continue reading
In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground,
but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?
He is not here; he has risen!
Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee:
‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners,
be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ”
Luke 24: 5-7
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