Matthew 6 – Sermon on the Mount, Part 2
Jesus teaches a high standard of righteousness, requiring sincerity in the heart. In startling words, he warns us against anger,…
Matthew 7 – Sermon on the Mount, Part 3
In Matthew 5, Jesus explains that true righteousness is internal, a matter of the heart, not just of behavior. In…
Matthew 9 – The Purpose of Healings
Matthew 9, like most other chapters in Matthew, tells of several events in the life of Christ. But these are…
Maundy Thursday and “Holy Week”
The calendar or weekly bulletin published by your local congregation might have said the following for a Thursday in March…
Media from the 2013 International Conference
The following Audio and Video resources are from the 2013 International Conference and can be viewed or downloaded by using…
Media from the 2014 Regional Conferences
The following Audio and Video resources are from the 2014 Regional Conferences and can be viewed or downloaded by using…
Media from the UK 2012 Denominational Conference
Main Session Recordings from 2012 UK Denominational Conference The following Audio and Video resources are from the 2012 UK…
Medical Science and the Bible
Should a Christian use the services of medical doctors? Does the Bible forbid the use of medicines? If it is…
Meditation – a small group study
Introduction When considering meditation, some people think of images such as incense, candles, dark rooms filled with people sitting cross-legged…
Meeting a Living Legend
It isn’t often that a man gets to meet one of his boyhood heroes. I grew up in the racially…
Meeting Jesus on the Road to Ethiopia
Few books of the Bible can match the Acts of the Apostles for sheer evangelistic thrill. Acts begins with the…
Men and Women in Genesis 1-3
Preface Does the Bible require men and women to have different roles in the church? Although the Old Testament does…
Men and Women in the Books of Moses
Preface Many of the practices, events and laws contained in the Old Testament might seem strange to us. However, the…
Merry Christmas
Sometimes it’s nice to state the obvious—that’s what most Christmas cards do. In celebrating Christmas, it’s not the date of…
Mid-Life Melancholy
The good news is: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the suicide rate for teens has…
Mildew, Meats, and Cleanliness
Among the rules God gave the ancient Israelites were various laws about cleanness and uncleanness. The primary purpose of these…
Mind and Matter
So where are we? Science is now probing at levels in nature where phenomena seem to blur and dissolve into…
Ministering to the Singles in Our Churches
By age 30, probably most of his boyhood friends had already married. Maybe they had little children who scurried around…
Ministry Coaching
Because research and our experience show that being coached greatly enhances ministry effectiveness, GCI Church Administration and Development (CAD) trains…
Ministry Competency
This is part two of a three-part curriculum designed for equipping church workers and leaders. Click here for part 1…
Ministry Foundations
This is part one of a three-part curriculum designed for equipping church workers and leaders. Click here for part 2…
Ministry Means Service
When the Bible talks about “ministry,” what is it talking about? When it says that Christians are to be involved…
Ministry Strategy
This is part three of a three-part curriculum designed for equipping church workers and leaders. Click here for part 1…
Miriam: First Lady of the Exodus
“Great queen of Egypt, I believe we can all see that the Hebrew child will not accept nourishment from those…
Mirror, Mirror
What do you see when you look in the mirror? Snow White’s evil stepmother, who turned out to be a…
Mission / Purpose
People who have a purpose in life live healthier and longer lives, concluded neuropsychologist, Patricia Boyle. Dr. Boyle was quoted…
Mission Bound
In August 2008, a group of young Christians led by Michael and Janet Morrison were planning to go to the…
Modern Slavery – The Unheard Cries
Mention the word “slavery” and what comes to mind? Probably Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Or perhaps…
Modification, Formation, and Reformation in Youth Ministry
The following article appears here with permission from Steve Argue and Dave Livermore, who advocate focusing youth ministry on spiritual…
Mom, I’m Not Sure There Is a God!
My 17-year-old daughter has continually surprised me from the moment she was two minutes old—when the attending medical team commented…
Mom, I’m So Proud of You!
Mary with Melonen, one of the art students she taught while in Addis Abbaba Cliff presenting one of our college…
Money and Worship
Are offerings in church an unpleasant mixing of the spiritual and the secular? Perhaps sometimes they have been — but…
More Parables of the Kingdom
Matthew 13 is the largest collection of parables that are specifically said to be about the kingdom of God. But…
More Than a Tool
I like to go to home improvement stores and look at gardening tools. I love a well-shaped pair of pruning…
Moses and the Old Covenant
1. God promised to bless Abraham’s descendants and give them the land of Canaan. But first, they had to move into…
Moving Mountains and Cursing Fig Trees
Have you ever wondered why Jesus said some of the things he said? For example, Mark 11:22-24 suggests that if,…
Moving Mountains in Appalachia
Pikeville, Kentucky, had a problem. Flat land is scarce in the Appalachians, and this horseshoe-shaped city had to share its…
Mozambique Adventure
I expected our trip to Mozambique to be challenging. What I didn’t expect was that my assistant would be arrested…
Music in Ancient Israel
By Victor H. Matthews, Ph.D., professor of Biblical Studies at Southwest Missouri State University. Even in its most primitive forms,…
Must We Choose Between Science and the Bible?
Is there an insoluble conflict between the two? The Bible says God created the earth and all that is in it….
My Father’s Living Will
“Your father’s blessings are greater than the blessings of the ancient mountains, than the bounty of the age-old hills.”—Genesis 49:26…
My Mother’s Prayer
I had my first love affair when I was just 6 years old. It’s true…but it’s probably not what you’re…
My New Mission Field
I’ve been doing missions for years. Short-term, part-time, full-time-in-the-field-missions—you name it, I’ve done it. And I’m tired. Not just the…
My Pilgrimage
Transformed by Truth, by Joseph Tkach Chapter 3 Several years ago the famous neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks wrote a fascinating book titled…
My Struggle With Pornography
The “open letter” at right, by Chuck Swindoll, brings to the fore an issue that churches around the world have…
Myk Habets Interview: Jesus and the Spirit
This interview was originally done for the video series titled You’re Included. The technical quality was not sufficient for it to be…
Myk Habets Interview: Jesus the Anointed Son
This interview was originally done for the video series titled You’re Included. The technical quality was not sufficient for it…
Myk Habets Interview: The Creeds and the Trinity
MM: One of the distinctives of the Christian faith is a belief in the Trinity. The word is not found…
Myk Habets Interview: Theosis: Participation in the Divine Nature
This interview was originally done for the video series titled You’re Included. The technical quality was not sufficient for it to be…
NAE Accepts Worldwide Church of God
National Association of Evangelicals Press Release, May 7, 1997 Transformed Church Finds Acceptance and Fellowship in Evangelical Community NAE Accepts…
NAE Statement of Faith
Here is the Statement of Faith of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE): We believe the Bible to be the…
New Clothes for New People (Colossians 3:12-25)
How should we live? “Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness7…
New Covenant Commands
1. What is the most important command of the New Testament? Matthew 22:37. Since there is only one God, and Jesus…
New Glory – How Becoming a Citizen Helped Me Understand the Christian Faith Better
When Jesus died, rose and ascended to the Father, he established a new relationship between humanity and God—a new covenant….
New in Christ
I saw an interesting article the other day. The gist of it was that in some cultures, people are more…
New Life in Christ, by Michael Morrison
God created us for a wonderful purpose: that we might live forever with him in joy, love, perfect holiness, and…
New Life in Christ, by Paul Kroll
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a leader in the German Confessional Church, was arrested by the Gestapo in April 1943. A year later,…
New Wineskins: Celebrating Salvation in Christ
In the previous chapter we saw that worship is our response to the gracious acts of God on our behalf. For ancient…