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We've all sat through Bible talks and sermons that meander all over the place going nowhere, or are just plain dull and uninteresting. But, whatever your involvement in your church or ministry, the law of averages suggests that at some time you will be called upon to talk in some way about a biblical topic. That doesn't mean preaching from the front of church necessarily, but just in some group format, in a home study, youth group or wherever. If you are like me, you'd take all the help you can get in putting that talk together.
Well seasoned preacher and youth pastor Tim Hawkins is on our side too. In Messages that Move, Tim provides great help and understanding in getting our listeners engaged with our talks or sermons.
Get the e-book version HERE for just £1 until midnight on Thursday. Simply use the code mtme10 at the checkout.
Are you half wondering about asking someone to read the Bible with you? Are you wondering what one-to-one Bible reading is all a out? Then take a moment to watch this video from 10ofthose:
And check out some of our great resources:
One2One: 24 studies for Bible Reading Partnerships
One2One: Book 2
One2One: Just Looking
One-to-One Bible Reading
One-to-One: A Discipleship Handbook
As you saw last week we at The Good Book Company have to move with the times. E-books are more and more the favoured reading medium.
Last week we gave you the opportunity to get our Questions Christians Ask series on offer. Today we are giving you the chance to look at another relatively new series at The Good Book Company - our "For You" series.
This series will take a look at various books of the Bible in the coming months and years, not as a commentary but as an expository guide. That is a resource that is accessible from a theological point of view, to lay Christians and seekers alike. So far there's Galatians For You and Judges for You by Timothy Keller.
As e-books, these resources normally retail at £7.99, but we are offering them to you at just £1 until midnight on Thursday 10th October. Have a look HERE for more information. Use the code fys1013 at the checkout.
The Heart of Singleness is a book for women about singleness—but it’s not like all the others in that category! Andrea Trevenna takes readers to their own hearts, to their own feelings and hopes and dreams—and then shows how those hopes and dreams are truly satisfied. Here’s an extract from chapter 3, where Andrea discusses what is often going on when we follow our hearts.
Follow your heart?
What’s wrong with following your heart? Nothing—if our hearts always get it right. But they don’t. In fact, our hearts deceive us a lot of the time. “The heart is deceitful above all things” (Jeremiah 17 v 9). We can probably see that in our own past, in decisions we’ve made and then regretted. We can probably see that in others, in directions they take that we wish they wouldn’t. It’s harder to see it in our own heart at the moment that it’s happening. But it does happen. Our hearts tell us to run from the person our own hearts most desire—Jesus. That’s what it means to be self-deceived.... continue reading
Do you know any teenage girls? You only have to walk through any town on a Saturday night to know some of the pressures these girls face. Or flick through their magazines, listen to their music, check out their Facebook pages… Every day they are bombarded with the world's messages – the right makeup, clothes, boyfriend, music, parties. The desire to be special; but the need to fit in.
It's tough being a teenager, and potentially even more so if you're a Christian. What does it mean to live for Christ in a world that ignores him? How can a girl be godly, and what does that look like anyway? Where are the role models to help them see what a "real Woman" – a woman of God – looks like?
Our new resource, Real Women, written by Sarah Bradley, is designed to help teenage girls who are caught up in this situation. It's a great tool to help Christian women meet up with teenage girls to explore together what living as a woman of God looks like.... continue reading
You probably know The Good Book Company for our biblically focused and - we pray - challenging tree books and resources.
However more and more reading is moving towards a digital format, and although we don't want to see the complete demise of the traditional book, The Good Book Company is keeping up with that trend.
Many of the books we publish and stock are also available in ebook format now alongside their paper counterparts. So now you can take your book with you wherever you take your Apple or Android mobile device, tablet, or other reading device.
To give you a flavour of how these ebook resources look and feel, we are offering our popular Questions Christians Ask series for just 75p each for the next 48 hours. Simply use the code qcae13 at the checkout.
It's always a thrilling moment when a new book arrives in the office from the printer. Thrilling but tense. After a huge amount of effort has been put into editing, crafting, shaping and designing, the book gets passed around the office. What happens next is an interesting exercise in testing our professionalism as a publisher.
As a book get's passed round people who have not been part of the process they react to it in the same way that anyone does when they pick up a book in a bookshop. They ask the following questions:
And of course...
When it is a product I have overseen, I usually finish this process by taking a "selfie" with the book, and sending it to the author.
Then the whole process starts again...
We picked up the rights to publish and promote Tim Chester's excellent book, Ordinary Hero, in the US, which will be launching in a few weeks' time - have a look at the UK version HERE - it's terrific!
"I'm now far better equipped to lead my home group"
"An invaluable way to prepare for my first steps into preaching"
"I can't tell you what a difference my studies have made. Life has bee awful recently - but having the nature and character of God firmly fixed in my mind helped me through"
"It's the highlight of my week - a great way to spend my retirement"
Just some of the comments made by students on the Moore College Certificate in Theology course offered by The Good Book College.... continue reading
Last week I watched two mums exploring the Bible with their sons. They were fulfilling their biblical responsibility for the spiritual education of their children – and it was great fun!
Bekah and Susie have two children each. They knew they wanted to read the Bible with their children from a young age, and also to help them grasp the big picture of the Bible storyline. But they couldn’t find anything to help them do this. So they wrote it themselves. The result is Bake through the Bible – a 20-story Bible overview for toddlers, supported by cooking activities.
The idea is simple, but also brilliant. There’s a retelling of the Bible story – carefully written at the right level for pre-schoolers, while also staying biblically accurate – followed by a prayer. Then there’s a fun (often messy!) baking activity to do together. While you bake, there are some simple discussion questions to reinforce the meaning of the story. And when it’s time to eat, there’s one final question to pull it all together.
Susie and Bekah made Creation Cookies with their sons Joshua and Simeon. Watching the boys with their hands in the bowl mixing the dough was brilliant – they obviously loved it – then rolling the dough, pressing in the cutters and decorating the final cookies. And quite a lot of eating of the dough. All the way through they chatted about the wonderful things God made, as they cut out trees, stars, ducks, people, cows…
We filmed them doing all of this, with Joshua and Simeon turning out to be natural film stars. It was so great that I kept wanting to join in rather than stay behind the camera.
So was it just fun? Or did it help these young boys grasp something of the wonder of the creation account? I’ll leave the last word to Joshua (aged 2):
Susie: “What must God be like if He made all these wonderful things?”
Joshua: “Amazing”
Job done.
Judges for You is flying off the shelves and it has been exciting to hear how Christians across the globe are using it to get to know God better.
Today, on the Gospel Coalition website, there's a great interview with author, Tim Keller. Click HERE to read more.
And to buy a copy, click HERE.
