Your weekly filter of news and interesting stuff from the internet.The Proc Trust have made this article by Sinclair Ferguson freely available. It's on faithful Old Testament preaching without ignoring history. If this is of interest, you might want to check out The Gospel Coalition's site packed full of similar resources that we mentioned a few weeks ago.
For anyone who watched the BBC's documentaries The Bible's Buried Secrets, there's an interesting article about what it actually uncovered (or you could complain to the BBC).
Neil Powell has written 13 questions to help churches think through how to support women with regard to work.
Justin Taylor followed up his If...then post on 1 John with a Whoeever post along the same lines.
And finally, here's a story from SydneyAnglicans speaking about a video that we're definitely NOT going to post but everyone should know about.
Which of these churches does NOT appear in Rev 2-3?
Which book starts, "These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel in the desert east of the Jordan…"?
Which Gospel contains the parable of The Prodigal Son?
Who did Pilate release instead of Jesus?
Who said, "But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God"
Which of these books has the most number of verses?
"If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become _____"
Tyndale House have produced three short videos for Easter showing how the earliest manuscripts support the Resurrection.
Other Easter video resources you might find helpful:
For Children:
There’s a new “Bible”… for atheists. Which, it strikes me, is a contradiction in terms.
Humanist philosopher AC Grayling has written “The Good Book” as a blend of Greek philosophy, Confucian sages and the discoveries of modern science.... continue reading
Pleased to say that most people enjoyed our April Fool's Joke. Here's a round up of some of the others, secular and otherwise:
Any (good ones!) that we missed?
Thanks so much to all of you who've helped out with the first question we posed for this new resource.
Now we'd love you to help with the second question. If you've heard, or used, a story which helpfully illustrates the biblical answer, please please share it with us:
Can we trust what the Bible says?
All comments massively welcomed, just stick them below…
Engage with 2 Thes 1 v 11-12.
With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may count you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may fulfill every good purpose of yours and every act prompted by your faith. We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Paul wants Christians to stick at serving God so that God gets the glory He deserves.
LMC Chairman, Richard Coekin, gives three reasons why you should come to the London Men's Convention this year on the 7th May at the Royal Albert Hall.
Please note that this was an April Fools joke. At The Good Book Company, our aim is to produce materials that help Christians to read the Bible for themselves so that they might grow in the knowledge and love of the Lord Jesus Christ. In other words, the very opposite of the approach suggested by the Pre-thumbed Bible.
Although we know that many enjoyed the joke, we are sorry for any offense that was caused to those who are unfamiliar with our resources and underlying principles.
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