Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Tales of The Kingdom



An intriguing allegorical children's classic that takes place in the enchanted city where you will enjoy the wonderful experience of God's great deliverance. I would place this treasure on an equal with The Chronicles of Narnia. Twelve stories centering on the adventures of two orphaned brothers who escape a polluted city ruled by an evil enchanter to seek their exiled king in the place where trees grow.  

Chapter 1:
~ The Enchanted City: 
Scarboy and his brother Little Child escape from the Enchanted City and find Great Park, where they are welcomed by Caretaker and Mercie.
Chapter 2
~ The Orphan Keeper's Assistant: 
He travels to the Great Park to hunt escaped orphans and outcasts and bring them back to the Enchanted City, but as an outcast herself discovers that the Kingdom is also for her.
Chapter 3
~ The Apprentice Juggler:
The Apprentice Jugger follows the advice of a beggar, who is actually the King Himself, and discovers that when he follows the rhythm of inner timing approved by the King, he finds his own place in the Kingdom. 

Click here to get more details about this marvelous book. 


Friday, July 27, 2012

Making Prayer Your Second Language

Making Prayer Your Second Language is a complete 4-week preaching campaign that will help develop your congregation’s skill in speaking with God in four vital ways. Based on the ACTS model of prayer (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication), your church will learn to incorporate each attitude of prayer into their daily lives, particularly so if they elect to use the Prayer Journals. Each sermon will take a closer look at a different aspect of prayer, and bring a contemporary light to communicating with God. Every message is also supported with a wealth of pre-built service elements, videos and professional graphics, allowing you to create a custom series tailored to your congregation.

Sunday, July 22, 2012

The Old Guys Are Wise


A strange thing happened to us some eight years ago as we were collapsing our media ministry (The Chapel of the Air national radio broadcast, the You Need to Know national television show, our publishing arm Mainstay Church Resources and our pastoral conference ministries—137 or so per year).

David and I looked at the reel-to-reel tapes and decided that since we had no environmentally controlled storage available and since these tapes are notorious for degrading quickly, that the best thing we could do was to toss 20 years of daily broadcasts into a dumpster and salvage a few of the crucial beta-television tapes, boxes of which we moved to our garage and basement to await the time when we could purge, dump or save those. Read More here: http://goo.gl/S5CKz

The Old Guys Are Wise


A strange thing happened to us some eight years ago as we were collapsing our media ministry (The Chapel of the Air national radio broadcast, the You Need to Know national television show, our publishing arm Mainstay Church Resources and our pastoral conference ministries—137 or so per year).

David and I looked at the reel-to-reel tapes and decided that since we had no environmentally controlled storage available and since these tapes are notorious for degrading quickly, that the best thing we could do was to toss 20 years of daily broadcasts into a dumpster and salvage a few of the crucial beta-television tapes, boxes of which we moved to our garage and basement to await the time when we could purge, dump or save those. Read More here: http://goo.gl/S5CKz

The Body

The true church is more than a building or collection of people. It's a worldwide community of believers who follow Christ as King. In this thought-provoking volume, Chuck Colson challenges God's people from all races, colors, backgrounds, and nations to shake off the cultural biases we impose on the gospel and fullfill the true mission of the church. Read more here: The true church is more than a building or collection of people. It's a worldwide community of believers who follow Christ as King. In this thought-provoking volume, Chuck Colson challenges God's people from all races, colors, backgrounds, and nations to shake off the cultural biases we impose on the gospel and fullfill the true mission of the church.

Thursday, July 19, 2012

About Hungry Souls


Hungry for God? Ever catch yourself pondering your spiritual state and thinking, There must be something more...?

Hungry Souls is a mentoring ministry designed to meet the needs of men and women whose souls are starving. The demands of our hyperactive, materialistic society (despite the abundance of spiritual resources) often create spiritual malnourishment. Men and women frequently find themselves famished for the reality of a personal, significant and growing relationship with God.

All our growth tools are developed and tested in the lively laboratory of thinking lay people (who understand the reality of spiritual hunger). The tools are practical and applicable. Our advisory council includes people who have spent decades in ministry dealing with spiritual formation, spiritual direction, spiritual mentoring, within the local church and in para-church ministries.

Read more here: http://goo.gl/0gVgj

Monday, July 16, 2012

The Latest From Global Bag Project


Meet Jambi, or Jane as we know her. Jane came to the Global Bag Project in 2011 through Wairimu (pronounced, Wa-r-ee-moo), a friend from church. An accomplished seamstress, Wairimu teaches sewing skills to the new GBP Africa bag sewers in the sewing room at Africa International University (AIU), our home base in Nairobi, Kenya. Once a week, or as funds allow, Wairimu gives sewing lessons to the four women who came to us in March after a voluntourism group donated 8 new sewing machines to GBP. Click HERE to read more.

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Angels Unawares

Barb Henry e-mailed that she and her husband, Marv, would be in the Chicago area and wondered if would we have time to get together. The Henrys have been good friends of our ministry for decades, and we are always eager to become better acquainted with the friends we’ve met through the years or with the faithful donors who somehow keep what has become a more quiet ministry now that we are out of the public eye. Read More: http://goo.gl/Oha3X