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 Prepublication Special
Divorce and Remarriage: A Permanence View
We believe this book will save marriages. We expect to have this 160 page book back from the printer/binder near the end of December. We will not mail the book until around January 1st. Because we are uncertain of when the book will arrive, we will offer a pre-publication price up until January 15, 2009. This $16 book will sell for just $11 until that time. Free shipping in the US/Can. For overseas orders, write for S/H costs.

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Order Pursuing God—A Seeker’s Guide for holiday use.  

We just received several thousand Pursuing God books with a new cover!

Pursuing God may be just the right evangelistic book to make available during the holidays. Consider ordering copies for your special events, for members to give to relatives, for Sunday guests during the holiday period, etc. God has used this straightforward, warm explanation of the gospel to help many. Don’t forget that we have Pursuing God in Audio and Spanish also.

Check out our discounted prices here. 10 pack for $35 plus free shipping!

Elders' Meetings That Do Something  

Elders’ meetings should not be an exercise in futility. Rather, to be effective for the church and interesting for the elders, some thought must be put into your time together.

Some suggestions:
 
1. Plan for meeting together more often and for a longer period of time.
 
We find meeting for at least four hours weekly is about right, 6-10 pm. Even then we find that we want more time. In fact, before one of our elders changed jobs, we would meet from 5-10 pm. The “once-a-month elders’ meeting” is the kiss of death for most elder teams. 
 
 

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Restoring Those Who Fall
A Church Discipline Statement 
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Getting John 1:12 Right: Should You Invite Jesus Into Your Heart?

Jim Elliff, Founder and President Is it useful to critique any person’s or ministry’s method of evangelism? For one thing, there are not enough people calling on others to follow Christ. Should I attempt to cripple their efforts in the slightest way, even for the few who might listen to me? I hope I will not. I would rather think that I’m improving our evangelism. And it does need improving.

The apparent results of the method of evangelistic appeal built upon the verse in question (John 1:12, along with Revelation 3:20) surely cannot be argued with. I think I could say with ease that almost all the evangelistic results coming out of America are rooted in a method that emerges from the problematic view of John 1:12 which I will unfold.

 

A Cathartic Sickness

One of my long time friends died recently and another is extremely sick. I have also had some uncomfortable physical challenges myself, the latest of which is what appears to be a rather manageable pneumonia in one lung. 

As I bathed myself in the sweat of fever I often regretted my inability to sleep and work. As the Christian radio station or a CD of some preacher droned through the night hours, I thought, “Could I face something much worse?”
 
 
 
 
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