Personal Promise Bible Discount Code
This Bible could be a very special gift. A personal promise Bible is a Bible with your name inserted where there are promises. They just called me yesterday to say they now have personal Bibles available for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod.
I met Gil, the owner, at the Christian Booksellers Association a few years ago and he just emailed me today that they have set up a special discount code for our friends. To get a 5% discount on any of their Bibles or Calendars just enter the promo code ‘WELLES’ at check out and receive 5% off your entire order.
Sometimes it’s hard to get special gifts for holidays, like Mother’s Day, but I think this one is a great choice especially since it’s now available in more formats. I’m planning on getting one for a friend who just purchased an iPad. Click here to visit their website – Personal Promise Bible.
Invite The Unchurched To Easter Services
We are just days away from Easter Sunday and this is a perfect time to invite your friends to church. Last Sunday, the Pastor told us that most unchurched people would come to church if someone just invited them.
Curious, I did a quick search on Google and found a poll showing that around 80% of the people who do not regularly attend a church said they would be very likely to come on Easter Sunday, if someone asked them.
Although I had been raised in the church, there was a season in my life that I didn’t go. In my late teens, I saw some hypocrisy in the church and when I moved out, I stopped going and put God on a back burner for quite a few years. At that time, I didn’t know the Scriptures and didn’t realize the hundreds of prophesies that Jesus fulfilled.
I even remember that a friend and I decided people were Christians because they just needed some kind of crutch. We couldn’t understand why anyone would want to go to church. Then… God started drawing me back. I even ‘felt’ an inaudible voice say ‘Welcome Home.’
Someone invited me to their church, and I couldn’t sing the worship songs for the first month. I was too choked up. They were the real deal. This was a much different church. It was not just a social gathering. Jesus is alive and He is God. People don’t have to go through life alone. What a great opportunity we have to just invite people this week since they will come, if asked. It could literally change their lives. Now I can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t want to be a part of a good church.
Fresh Wind Fresh Fire Review
‘Fresh Wind Fresh Fire’ is a excellent book by Jim Cymbala. Jim shares his experience as a young pastor in a struggling church. It’s the story of the birth of the Brooklyn Bible Tabernacle, in New York.
The secret to the success of their church happened when ordinary people chose to meet during the week to pray and call out for God’s presence and intervention in their lives and the lives of the people around them.
The book is filled with stories of how God transformed the lives of people caught in a lifestyle of drugs, alcohol, and more. For example, a transvestite was set free from drugs and his homosexual past. Later, he fell in love with a Christian woman and they married.
Of the many stories, I didn’t know that Charles Finney had a prayer warrior, Daniel Nash, that went ahead to each city Charles was going to preach in. Daniel gathered people of prayer to intercede for souls to come to Christ. It reminded me of Billy Graham’s Crusades. They gather churches together to have them pray and to equip people to help at the events.
This book is filled with Scriptures and personal stories from the church. The emphasis is encouraging people to go deeper into prayer and shows what a difference it makes to have a praying and active church. The apostle Paul exhorted us to pray without ceasing, and this book backs it up with Scriptures and the lots of stories of changed lives.
Heaven’s Entrance Exam
This site usually focused on worship guitar tips but I just received this Christian joke and thought it might bring a smile to you, too. A merry heart is good medicine.
HEAVEN’S ENTRANCE EXAM
A man dies and goes to Heaven. Saint Peter
meets him at the Pearly Gates and says, “Ok,
here’s how it works. You need 100 points to
make it into Heaven. You tell me all the good
things you’ve done, and I’ll award you a certain
number of points for each item, depending on
how good it was. When you reach 100 points,
you get in.”
“Okay,” the man says….”I was married to the
same woman for 50 years and never once
cheated on her, even in my heart.”
“That’s wonderful,” says Saint Peter, “That’s
worth three points!” ”Three points?” he asks. Read More…
Plagal Cadence – Song Endings
One of the most used way to extend the end of a worship song is with the use of the plagal cadence. In fact, it has been used for years as the ‘A-men’ ending of hymns in traditional church music.
To understand how it works, you should know what the I, IV, and V chords means. This is briefly explained in volume two of the Worship Guitar Class course and fully taught in our Music Theory course for Guitar. You can see a brief teaching on the plagal cadence in the following video. It starts at around the 1/3rd mark, in the video below.
Basically, the I, IV and V chords are chords built on the first, fourth, and fifth notes of any given scale, or key. In the key of ‘A’, the chords are ‘A’, ‘D’, and ‘E’, or ‘E7′. The V chord is often changed to V7. Read More…
