evangelism

Are Christians Missing the Plot of the Old Testament?

June 6, 2025 Messiah Community 0:27:20

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Discover the Heart of God Through the Old Testament Knowing God Through the Old Testament brings together three of Christopher J. H. Wright’s best loved books: Knowing God the Father Through the Old Testament, Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament, and Knowing the Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament. Each volume focuses on one of the three persons of…

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Does Covenant Theology Unite the Church?

May 15, 2025 Messiah Community 35:44

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Just as two bookends hold together a row of books, the covenant of works and the covenant of grace hold together the storyline of Scripture. Join a host of twenty-six scholars, including O. Palmer Robertson, Michael J. Kruger, and Scott R. Swain, as they explore how the concept of covenant is clearly taught in Scripture…

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Does the Jewish Bible Point to Jesus?

April 25, 2025 Messiah Community 0:36:46

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How will we be able to recognize the Messiah? Christians claim that Jesus is the Messiah, but how can we know if that is true? Jesus revealed the truth about himself through passages in the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings—which together comprise the Tanakh (the Old Testament). In Does the Jewish Bible Point to Jesus?,…

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Why Are There So Many Scandals In the Church?

December 30, 2023 Messiah Community 26:29

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The great evangelist, Ravi Zacharias, had been a pretender for decades. The influential apostle to the Academy had built a self-named empire by claiming for himself academic credentials that he did not have. He told fans and donors that he was “a professor at Oxford” and a “visiting scholar at Cambridge.” He told them that…

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How Do Christians Exercise Privilege in the World?

September 30, 2022 Messiah Community 21:21

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While preparing the way for the Lord, John the Baptist declares, “Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.” Many have failed to do this, in part, because repentance has become diluted. Rather than truly turning away from sin–back to God–we often equate repentance with a mere oral confession. This domesticated, unbiblical understanding of repentance bears no…

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Things Atheists Say That Simply Make No Sense

June 8, 2021 Messiah Community 29:10

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Many popular atheists are very confident in what they assert to be true. However, not everything they say actually makes sense. This book sheds light on 36 statements made by atheists of the present and the past – Sam Harris, Stephen Hawking, Christopher Hitchens, Alex Rosenberg, Richard Dawkins, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Bertrand Russell – to…

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How Church Planting Leads to Citywide Movements

September 25, 2019 Messiah Community 24:45

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We need a bigger vision for the city. It’s not enough to plant individual churches in isolation from each other. The spiritual need and opportunity of our cities is too big for any one church to meet alone. Pastors Neil Powell and John James contend that to truly transform a city, the gospel compels us…

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Is Evangelism Still Alive in America?

July 31, 2019 Messiah Community 42:12

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Many bemoan the decline of the church. We hear a steady stream of reports about how droves of people, especially younger generations, are abandoning Christianity. But new research shows that unchurched Americans are surprisingly more receptive and open to the Christian faith than is commonly assumed. Researcher and practitioner Rick Richardson unveils the findings of the…

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Discovering the Delight of Spiritual Conversations

July 8, 2019 Messiah Community 37:46

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New research finds that Christians are less involved in spiritual conversations today than we were twenty-five years ago. As society has changed, it seems we have become more uncomfortable talking with people about our faith. We are reluctant conversationalists. The reality is that many of our churches and communities are shrinking instead of growing. What…

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