If God Is Love, Hell Is Real.
Is hell real? Jesus taught about hell as a real reality for those who persistently reject God. It is a place of separation from God, originally created by God as a place of punishment for the devil and his angels. Although it has become common to assume that a loving God would not send anyone...
Daniel McCoy
Truth About God in Special Revelation
Do we have good reason to believe in the God of the Bible–not just a generic God revealed through creation? How does God reveal Himself within human history? Richard A. Knopp, author of Truth About God, explores these questions in…
Richard Knopp
Richard Knopp
Why Is the Second Coming of Jesus So Important?
This is Question #1 in Gary Johnson’s The End: The Return of King Jesus and the Renewal of All Things.
Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson
Why Storytelling is Important to the Life of a Christian
In this article, Taffeta Chime explores why storytelling is important in the life of a Christian. Other articles in this series include “How to Create Good Characters,” “What Are the Conflicts in a Story?,” “What Metaphor Means,” “Tips on Writing Stories in Layers,” and “How to Share Stories for a Particular Audience.” “Hi, sweetheart, how was...
Taffeta Chime
Countercultural Living Sermon Tools
Would you like your church to know more about what the Bible teaches about life’s most pressing cultural questions? What does it mean to be human? How should we view race? Gender? Marriage? To help churches engage with Carol Swain’s…
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Introduction to The End: The Return of King Jesus and the Renewal of All Things
In this video, Gary Johnson, author of The End, introduces the book and gives its main points.
Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson
The End Author Q&A – Gary Johnson with Bobby Harrington
Join Bobby Harrington as he talks with Gary Johnson about Johnson’s book The End: The Return of King Jesus and the Renewal of All Things.
Learning to Pray: Yield (Part 4 of P.R.A.Y.)
Prayer is more challenging than we’d like to admit. At its most basic elements, prayer is having a conversation with God. Sounds easy enough. But what if you don’t know what to say? What if you never hear anything from God? What if you get distracted? It’s easy to see where things fall apart. We...
Joshua Branham
The End Sermon Tools
Would you like your church to know more about the major events of the end times? To know what the Bible says about Jesus’ second coming and the final judgment? To be clearer on heaven and hell? To know how…
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When a Story Is Cut Tragically Short
Helping my 4-year-old son at bedtime means I’ve had to become a creative story machine. Sometimes the machine is out of order. I’ve found myself coming up with a passable premise for a story, getting halfway through, and then running out. “The end,” I’ll say to buy myself some time. He will then facepalm and...
Daniel McCoy
Dr. Carol Swain on the Challenges Christian Face Today
The video is now available by signing into our webinar page (it is free), please click here to view. This is the recording of the live event, Tuesday evening, September 21st, 2021. Dr. Carol Swain and Bobby Harrington discussed the…
A Few Keys to Reconciling Broken Relationships
*Editor’s Note: This post in an excerpt adapted from Paul’s upcoming book called The Way Back: Why Repentance Ushers in the Presence of God and the Revival the Church So Desperately Needs. As one with a background in professional counseling, I have spent a good deal of the last decade of my life trying to...
Paul Huyghebaert
Answering Questions with Stories
Isn’t it fascinating how Jesus chose to answer questions with stories? Tony Twist, coauthor of Grand Metanarrative: God’s Story as an Invitation to Theology, explores how God’s stories frame our identity.
Tony Twist
Tony Twist
What’s the Point of Teaching the Bible?
*Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Tony Twist and Mihai Malancea’s Grand Metanarrative: God’s Story as an Invitation to Theology. Although my (Tony) academic career included a Master of Divinity and two doctorates, I went to school as a part-time student. Even though this approach meant stretching the degrees out over multiple years, it...
The Power of Stories
Rather than giving us a theology book, God revealed himself through a series of stories. Why stories? Tony Twist, coauthor of Grand Metanarrative: God’s Story as an Invitation to Theology, explains the power of stories.
Tony Twist
Tony Twist