20 November, 2024
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Crafting With Purpose: How Creativity Can Deepen Your Spiritual Connection

Each moment spend crafting is a chance to share God’s love with others, to offer something that came from our hearts and hands as a way to bless those around us.

Passing of Long-Time CCCB Professor Gareth L. Reese (1932-2024)

Long-time professor, author, and minister, Gareth L. Reese, passed from this life at age 92 on Thursday, November 7, 2024.

Missouri Pastor Launches Apprenticeship-Style Ministry Training Program

A new ministry training program launched this fall aimed at giving aspiring pastors an apprenticeship-style ministry education at a low cost.

At The Border

Our hearts were moved to stand at the river, boots on the ground, and spend a short couple of weeks with the Ukrainians who continue to suffer the loss of so much.

How One Immigrant’s Life Was Changed by God

Hung Le, an immigrant to the U.S. from Vietnam, lost his faith in God. But amid all of his difficult experiences, he came to the realization that God still loved him

Helicopter parenting is dead. Bulldozer parenting is dead. Divine-sovereignty is the new parenting style

We were made to be images of God. And this is the primary role of parents. To pour in and summon out the truth of this identity in the emerging generation.

‘Step Forward’ Teaches Youth Leadership and Fosters Discipleship

The “Step Forward” program is intentionally raising up students to be leaders in the church and teaching them to make disciples.

Three Young Ladies Who Left the Church: An Uber Story

An Uber driver’s story of three young ladies who shared the reasons for why they left the church.

In This Issue

A Trustworthy Ministry

It’s hard to know which organizations to trust today, but you can tell much about an organization that pours into you when it has nothing to gain. The Solomon Foundation was encouraging me and mentoring me long before I worked for a church associated with their network of churches.

The Wonder of the Incarnation

The holidays are marked by family reunions, sparkling displays, presents under the tree, and precious childhood memories. For the Christian, however, it is also a time to reflect upon the greatest gift ever given to man, namely God’s gift of his Son to mankind.

The Laws of Giving and Receiving

John 4 tells the story of a divine appointment that began with a woman far from God, but ended with many coming to know Jesus as the Savior of the world.

Novel Generosity: Churches and Individuals Who Creatively Share Their Blessings with Others

Christians and churches are called by Christ to share their blessings with those around them. Giving often is pretty straight-forward. See a need and meet it.  But some givers go a little further with their generosity—not perhaps in what they give, but in how they go about doing it.

Living on Gratitude Street

Thanksgiving is far more than an American holiday. Gratitude Street winds its way through all of God’s Word. Grace and gratitude, double first cousins, are deeply rooted in the heart of God and Scripture.

Missionary Care: Ministering to Those Who Go

Share and share alike. Be generous toward others. We all have a part to play. Those in the field who go to battle need workers to guard the equipment. Missionary care is a guardianship of one of our most precious kingdom resources: our sent ones. 

Cross-Cultural Christmas

Like the wisemen, people around the world are experiencing unexpected events. Maybe you can be a partner in evangelism with a global work that will meet their needs and open the door for them to be drawn to the Christ child.  

Staying on Mission: How Restoration Movement Churches Are Supporting Global Ministry

Independent Christian churches and churches of Christ have a record of missionary activity and advocacy that stretches back to the earliest chapters of Restoration history. Our many contemporary missions organizations, programs, and conferences show that this commitment to making disciples around the globe is still a key characteristic of our movement.  

+ The Lookout

November 24 Study | Free at Last

If there is anything that should cause us to give thanks this week it is that God has provided an eternal home for us.

November 17 Study | Dress for the Victory Feast

The dress code of Heaven for the wedding feast of the Lamb is good deeds. The church (bride) makes herself ready for that feast by righteous acts. John gave this interpretation of the fine linen (19:8). 

November 10 Study | I Pledge Allegiance

God’s people should be crystal clear about their allegiance. They play to an audience of one. So they must be very careful of other allegiances. For the believers in the seven churches, that meant coming out from the pagan influences of the culture.

November 3 Study | The Battle is the Lord’s

In Revelation 15-16, Christians are given a front-row seat on the judgments of God. They can watch them unfold through observing the angels with their seven bowls of wrath.

October 27 Study | War Wounds

The great accuser of Christians (Satan) strives to counterfeit all the good works of God. Christians need to have wisdom from God to abstain from being deceived.

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