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Weād love you to help us with a new resource weāre developingā¦
I'm Glad You Asked That is a resource we're trying to develop giving short answers to the 11 most commonly-asked questions we face.
Weāll give simple answers, and with a couple of key points, together with a bible passage you could go to: but we also love to include some stories or illustrations which help people to remember and explain gospel truths.
Please read on to see how you can help!... continue reading
A great truth to ease you into your week.
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. John 10 v 27-28
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Sorted: Nano is now available for bookings.
It's a half-day event for 11-14 yr olds and their leaders in London run by those fun guys at Capital Youthworks.
This year they'll be looking at being "Not Ashamed".
You can book now or find out more information. Tickets always go pretty quickly for this one as there's a fairly small capacity at the venue, so get in quickly!
Office stationery supplier Avery are running a competition to find Britain's messiest desk. So after a quick run through The Good Book Company's office, we've discovered that only 4 out of 23 (statistically that just 17.4%) of desks could be classsed as on the messy side of tidy. (It would have been slightly larger, but Children's editor Alison Mitchell had a blitz last week after she finished her work on the new Christianity Explored material to be launched soon).
So the question is - can you match the desk disaster to the job (IT, Marketing, Editorial, Admin)? Can you identify the woeful workspace with the Good Booker concerned?
The first correct answer linking the desk to the job role to be received at blog@thegoodbook.co.uk will receive the whole Gospel-Centred series free.
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A great truth to ease you into your week.
The ways of the Lord are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them. Hosea 14 v 9
The third and final part of Tim Chester's interview. This time he speaks about Delighting in the Trinity.
What figure or work has been the most influential in your thinking on the doctrine of the Trinity?
My desire to write a āsimpleā book on the Trinity started with the observation that so many of us get a little embarrassed by the Trinity as a subject. Because the math doesnāt seem to work, and the arguments about it are so complex, a lot of believers just try not to think about it. It doesnāt seem to be good news at all. But, of course, the opposite is true. When you start to see how central an understanding of the Trinity is to everything in the Christian life, you start to discover how amazing and wonderful God is. Itās a failure by preachers to express these wonderful truths in a way people can really grab hold of that is really at the heart of the problem. ... continue reading
The second part of a three-part interview with Tim Chester. Here, Tim speaks about his new book, From Creation to New Creation.
Why write a book unpacking the storyline of the Bible? Why is it important for the health of the church to understand and embrace the overarching story of the Bible and how it āfitsā together into a coherent whole?
Iām convinced itās absolutely vital for the church to have a strong sense of the Bible story as a whole and how we fit in that story. Itās vital if we want to read the Bible properly. But itās also vital is we want to understand our identity as Christians. Too many Christians are influenced by the individualism of our culture. We think of the gospel as all about how I get saved by God. It is that, but itās much more than that. The Bible is the story of God saving a family, a nation, a people. Our identity is communal and missional.... continue reading
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