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Family Ministry: Training to Launch Your Church’s Family Ministry

2nd April 2014

Have you ever wondered how to promote a family ministry model in your church? Perhaps you’re just curious about what family ministry is all about. Whether you’re ready to dive in or just testing the waters, RightNow Media and I have partnered together to provide a practical online course to help those who might […]

Family Ministry: How Paul’s Teachings About the Family Apply Today

31st March 2014

Not long ago, I shared with Christianity.com some thoughts about how Christians can apply Paul’s teaching in their homes. Paul established a priority-changing paradigm for marriages and families in Ephesians 5 and 6. He invited parents to view their task not simply as behavioral management but as gospel proclamation, viewing their children not only as […]

PROOF: Grace Always Makes the First Move

31st March 2014

An excerpt from the forthcoming book PROOF: Finding Freedom through the Intoxicating Joy of Irresistible Grace: “There is no doctrine more hated by worldlings,” nineteenth-century Baptist pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon once pointed out, “as the great, stupendous, but yet most certain doctrine of [God’s] sovereignty.” Ever since sin plunged the cosmos into darkness, humanity has […]

PROOF: An Anthem of Resurrecting Grace

26th March 2014

In PROOF: Finding Freedom through the Intoxicating Joy of Irresistible Grace, a book I co-authored with Sojourn Community Church pastor Daniel Montgomery, we explain the biblical truth of “resurrecting grace.” What we mean by this is simply that all of us exist as spiritual zombies—the walking dead—until God’s resurrecting grace invades and enlivens our hearts: “Spiritual […]

Church History: The Legacy of William Wilberforce

25th March 2014

March 25th marks the anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in Great Britain. In 1807 the British Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act, eradicating the inhumane export of African slaves throughout the Empire. About 25 years following that, slavery would be completely outlawed within the British Empire. The major contributor to this movement […]

Family Ministry: How Pastors Can Care for Their Children

24th March 2014

Chap Bettis, executive director of The Apollos Project, previously wrote on ways in which church members can participate in the task of helping pastors shepherd their children. In a recent post, he directly engages pastors and offers practical ways to help them guard their children from church burnout and instill in them a love for the gospel […]

Family Ministry: Caring for Your Pastor’s Kids

18th March 2014

Chap Betts, executive director of The Apollos Project, provides a grace-saturated way to encourage your pastor and minister to his children. He states: “Too many children of pastors are casualties in the spiritual battle. After seeing the inner workings of the church, many do not want anything to do with the Lord or his people. […]

Family Ministry: Is Your Story Line Too Small?

17th February 2014

Certain skills may be helpful in a child’s Christian formation—but, when it comes to parents discipling their children, the task is not primarily about the skills; it’s about a divinely-designed relationship. The church may remind me to engage spiritually with my daughters. Ministers, elders, or deacons might even equip my wife and me to disciple […]

Family Ministry: Growth, Retention, and Gospel-Motivated Ministry

10th February 2014

Sometimes, when a ministry makes much of Jesus and the gospel, the results do include numeric gains or stellar retention rates. Seven weeks after Jesus erupted alive from a garden tomb, three thousand women and men confessed Jesus as the risen Lord, and the congregation still kept growing (Acts 2:41–47). Before long, well over five […]

Church History: An Interview with Tom Nettles on the Prince of Preachers

31st January 2014

On January 31, 1892, Charles Haddon Spurgeon passed from this life. More than a century later, he remains one of the most widely-read preachers ever. In Living By Revealed Truth, Dr. Tom Nettles distills more than a decade of his own study into the text that now stands as the premier biography of Spurgeon. Here […]

Apologetics: What Can We Know About the Real Jesus?

29th January 2014

Apologetics: Was the New Testament Miscopied?

22nd January 2014

Family Ministry: Family Discipleship in the Middle Ages and Reformation

20th January 2014

With the dawning of imperial favor in the early fourth century and the crumbling of the Roman Empire in the fifth, the primary locus of Christian practice drifted from homes to dedicated institutional structures. Especially in the early Middle Ages, there appears to have been a loss of the ancient model for discipleship in families. […]

Apologetics: What Blinds People to the Gospel?

15th January 2014

Family Ministry: An Ancient Christian Perspective on Family Ministry

13th January 2014

This model for family ministry not only began before Paul’s generation but also persisted far beyond the lifetimes of the first followers of Jesus. Didache and Letter of Barnabas provide summaries of Christian practices that date to the first and second centuries A.D. Both of these writings include an identical command for parents—a command […]

Apologetics: Dealing with Discrepancies in the Biblical Text

8th January 2014

The content that I present in this video may also be found in my book Misquoting Truth. (c) 2008 Coral Ridge Ministries. Used by permission. Click here to purchase full DVD.

Join the Launch Team for a New Book!

1st January 2014

Do you enjoy easy-to-read books about important theological topics? Are you interested in being among the first to read and review a book? Do you like getting free stuff? If so, join the PROOF Launch Team! Sign up here. What You’ll Receive as a Launch Team Member Every member of the PROOF Launch Team […]

Family Ministry: Building a Biblical Model for Your Church’s Family Ministry

30th December 2013

So what does it mean to build a family ministry model for your church? And how can we be certain our model is biblical? Taking a moment to consider the meaning of a “model” in other fields of study may be helpful here. In other fields of study, a model must meet three criteria: (1) […]

Church History: The Real Story of Santa Claus

24th December 2013

Today, St. Nicholas is mostly known as a paunchy old geezer who spends one night each year breaking into people’s houses and stealing cookies before escaping to an Arctic hideaway where elves do his work for him. Kind of creepy when you think about it. The good news is that none of this was what […]

Family Ministry: When Inviting Parents Isn’t Enough

23rd December 2013

How can your ministry equip parents with the resources they need? In the first place, help parents to see that if they are believers in Jesus Christ, God has already equipped them with his Spirit, his Word, and the community of faith (John 16:12–14; Eph. 4:11–16; 2 Tim. 3:16–17; Heb. 13:21). Through these gifts from […]