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Radio / Podcasts – Podcasts are audio files you download to your iPod or other mp3 player. They download automatically each day. You can also listen to these shows online at your convenience.
- Stand to Reason – I highly recommend the daily podcasts and the weekly show. Greg Koukl has a great approach to Christian thinking and sharing the Gospel in a productive way.
- Grace to You – John MacArthur
General
- Eternal Perspectives Ministries – Randy Alcorn’s web site. This guy is the real deal. He writes great fiction and non-fiction and donates nearly everything he makes.
- The Christian Start Page
- Are you a good person?
- That’s my King! 3.5 min. video with powerful words and images about Jesus.
Apologetics (a defense of the Christian faith)
Stand to Reason – Easy to use resources to defend your views in an attractive way. I highly recommend their training materials.
- Apologetics Press
- ChristianAnswers.net
- Christian myths
- Tektonics
- 10 Objectives to Christianity and How to Respond
- MyFortress
- Articles by J. Budziszewski, Ph.D
- The Real History of the Crusades
- Answering Islam
- Interview with the Dalai Lama
Intelligent Design
- True Origins
- Answers In Genesis
- Five Questions a Darwinist Would Rather Dodge
- Texans for Better Science Education
- Institute for Creation Research
Media
- Breakpoint – A Christian perspective on today’s news and culture
- Boundless Webzine
- New Man Magazine
Get Involved
- OneMillionDads.com, OneMillionMoms.com, OneMillionYouth.com – Use these tools for effective “two-click complaining.” These groups have had a lot of success in cleaning up TV and other media. Theyend periodic emails to you, then you modify a pre-written email message and send it to advertisers (or just send it as-is). They are spam-free, also.
- American Center for Law and Justice
- American Family Association Action Alerts
- RightMarch.com
Miscellaneous
- Gambling – Don’t Bet On It Review of a book on gambling, plus an excellent sketch on the problem of gambling in America
- Spiritual Journeys of Great Christians
- St. Nicholas – Discovering the Truth About Santa Claus
- C.S. Lewis Quotes
- Reseller ratings – helps determine which online resellers are reliable
Charities
- CareNet Pregnancy Center of NW Houston (where I volunteer as a counselor and Board member)
- Animal Therapy – No, our animals don’t get therapy (although they could use it!). We take the dogs to Heartland Nursing home. The residents love to see the dogs, and it makes a great ice-breaker for us and the girls to visit with them.
- Faith Comes By Hearing – You can get the audio Bible in many versions and types – CD, cassette or MP3. The prices are reasonable and it helps support getting audio Bibles to poor and illiterate people around the world.
- Prison Fellowship – Exhorting, equipping, & assisting the Church in its ministry to prisoners, ex-prisoners, & their families. Their in-prison programs dramatically reduce recidivism (criminals who return to jail).
- Angel Tree – Bringing the love of Christ to prisoners’ kids across America
Books – non-fiction
- The Bible Whatever you read this year, be sure to read this book. When its message is taken seriously, lives and cultures are transformed.
- Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
- Heaven by Randy Alcorn Everyone should read this book. It is very thorough and enlightening. They Bible says much more about Heaven than most people realize.
- How to Stay Christian in College – a must read for anyone going to college or sending their kids off to college.
- The 5 Love Languages – Everyone should read this book. Practical applications on the most important thing we do.
- Church History in Plain Language by Bruce Shelley – makes a potentially boring subject very interesting.
- The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey – Super book, written in a conversational and candid style
- How Now Shall We Live? by Chuck Colson
- The Case for Christ: A Journalist’s Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus by Lee Strobel – I also recommend the student edition.
- The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity by Lee Strobel – I also recommend the student edition.
Books – fiction
- Deadline by Randy Alcorn – murder mystery that takes place mostly on earth, but has some incredible scenes in Heaven.
- Safely Home by Randy Alcorn
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti – Not purely Biblical, but an exciting story with a good reminder of the power of prayer.
- Lord Foulgrin’s Letters by Randy Alcorn – sort of a modern day “Screwtape Letters,” where a senior demon coaches a junior demon on how to win someone over
- A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers – the whole “Mark of the Lion” series (this was part I) is really interesting and easy to read.
cool blog…it certainly blessed me…
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Thanks, Martin – I really like your blog!
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I wanted to let you know of an amazing Bible Study Resource I use that you should consider adding to your resources and links. It has huge library of tools such as commentaries, 29 translations, devotionals, lexicons, maps, e-books, etc. Bible Study Tools at Christianity.com not only has an amazing set of tools, but you can also highlight text, save your own notes, use a split screen panel so you can see two translations, a translation and a commentary, etc. Definitely check it out!
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excellent blog, take a look at mine http://www.thebookofisaiah.com
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Hi there, I just wanted to chip in with another resource that I think could be very helpful to those looking to read The Bible. At http://www.dailyreader.net we’ve recently finished adding The New Testament. The way dailyreader works is that you decide on how long you want to read and what days you want to read on, and then it will send out automated installments to your email with your daily readings (http://www.dailyreader.net/content/book/The-Bible-(KJV):-Matthew ).
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I wanted to pass on another resource. This new book teaches you forty different step-by-step Bible study methods to help you discover, apply and enjoy God’s Word. Each practical method has a handwritten example to demonstrate it and make it easy for you to follow the steps. Learn how to study the Bible with so much variety that you’ll never get into the rut that routine brings ever again. Learn to Study the Bible has more Bible study methods than any other book out there!
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Online Evangelism through Bible-library.com
We conduct online evangelism ad campaigns to reach people in Africa, India, China, and the Middle East, in addition to Europe and the Americas. Through online campaigns people can be reached with the Gospel in their native languages less than $0.10 per person. It is also possible to designate who to reach, by language and geographic location.
Our online evangelism effort started in 2006. Since then, more than 54,000 people from 100+ countries have responded to read this Gospel tract: http://bible-library.com/whoisjesus
The tract is shared in (6) languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, Hebrew, Hindi, and Tamil.
With this approach, we can reach people in countries hostile to Christianity. In 2009, more than 4000 Arabic speakers from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Lebanon have viewed the tract in Arabic. Another 2600+ people in China have viewed the tract in Chinese.
Google ads promote the Gospel tracts in multiple languages. The ads are triggered when someone types a word like “Bible” or “Jesus” in Google, but also when they type words like “depression”, “suicide”, “unwanted pregnancy”, … The goal is to reach out to those in difficult situations.
It’s like handing out tracts, except the person reading the tract has told us something about their situation with the words they’ve typed. At some point we could use that information to target a different message for each need. Today, they are directed to the “Who Is Jesus” tract in one of 6 languages.
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I apologize for the comment about “Online Evangelism”
It was intended as an article suggestion for this Blog, not a public comment.
Is there a way for me to delete?
Apologies,
David
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I found this information extremely helpful when exploring Jesus Christ.
http://www.rose-publishing.com/productdetails.cfm?SKU=707x
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I suggest adding http://carm.org to your list of apologetics sites. plethora of info on cults, doctrine, they have a chatroom, and forum.
its worth the time, user friendly and easy to navagate
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Thanks, John. It was there but just as “Christian Apologetics & Research.” I added “CARM” to clarify that.
Matt does great work. I used to listen to his Podcast. I just read his fiction book (originally titled “The Garden” but now called “The Influence.”). I enjoyed it and appreciated the reminder of the reality of spirtiual warfare and the power of prayer and forgiveness.
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I like your suggested links. Your blog is becoming a daily place for me to visit. Thanks. Another favorite of mine is http://www.monergism.com. I also like references to stuff written by John Owen, Charles Spurgeon and Jonathan Edwards. I have learned so much from these great men of God.
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Thanks – and yes, Monergism is great!
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