What would help you grow?

Here at the Good Book company, we're committed to producing resources that help people grow: grow in the knowledge of God, grow in the love of God, grow in the service of God. And in addition to our books, we have a passion for producing courses that equip God's people for works of service. Currently our range of short courses in practical ministry - run by our distance-learning college, the Open Bible Institute - includes courses on youth and children's work, administration, pastoral care, preaching, Christian mission & ministry and more. And we're busy planning how to expand this range with short courses on other topics.... continue reading

On to a Good Thing

Book review: Don't Waste Your Cancer

The author of this gem of a booklet pastors Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, U.S.A. John Piper is a thought-provoking, prolific, sometimes provocative, but always Bible-centred, author.

I’d come across his book Don’t Waste Your Life, but the title of this booklet stopped me in my tracks - Don’t Waste Your Cancer…?! This grabbed my attention (as intended!).

If we are really honest, our immediate reaction to the word cancer is always negative, and probably everyone reading this either knows someone who has got, or has had, cancer – or has experienced it themselves.... continue reading

Meet the bloggers - Carl Laferton

I am the reigning TGBC fantasy football champion, and also Senior Editor. For someone who is paid to write for a living, I find scribbling these biography things really hard.

Interesting and not-so-interesting things about me:

• I have been a Christian since 2000. I’d been taken (reasonably involuntarily) to church as a child, but when I got to uni there was a guy down my corridor who was a “real” Christian. His lifestyle, and most of all his joy, challenged me, and I started going to his church, heard the gospel, and found the source of my friend’s joy.
   
Interesting Thoughts

Fighting the Monday feeling

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

2 Corinthians 5 v 17 – 6 v 2

Reconciliation is God restoring the friendship with Him that we broke by sinning. Jesus became like us (treated by God as His enemy) so that we might become more like God.

The end of the rainbow II

There's another rainbow I regularly see in the Good Book Company offices. And it's not welcome!

As we are an über-cool organisation, we work on Apple Macs - the Ferraris of the computing world.

Mac users are known for being loyal evangelists of the brand, but at the risk of being branded a hardware heretic by the Mac-zealots , there are times when I could happily throw mine out of the window. There are times when, inexplicably, it just seizes up, and instead of a wristwatch ticking round, or a progress bar creeping across the screen, you get what is colloquially known as "The spinning wheel of death".... continue reading

Are we bigoted?

There are many ways to cheat in order to win an argument without having to actually defend your view. One is to call your opponent a “Nazi”. Another is to label them a “bigot”.

In an interesting blog this week, Ed West quotes a surprising turn of events. The National Secular Society’s attacking the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) which asked a Christian blogger, to justify placing a Coalition for Marriage advert on his blog.

Here’s what they said:... continue reading

We're loving 1 and 2 Kings this week!

So many people have been loving our first Infographic on 1 and 2 Kings that we've decided that our Friday deals should be focused on our Kings resources.

We're doing 25% off the brilliant commentaries by Dale Ralph Davis on 1 Kings and 2 Kings and an amazing 40% off on the new 1 Kings Good Book Guide by James Hughes. No code needed for the commentaries but use code kings40 at the checkout for the Good Book Guide to get the savings.

For our US customers, use the same code, kings40, at the checkout for the Good Book Guide.

Enjoy!

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