The Power of Literature

Did you know that for just $1 you can help a missionary in Asia have the availability to hand out 200 tracts? And a national missionary can hand out hundreds of tracts in just a few hours. Thousands have chosen to follow Christ after coming face-to-face with the Gospel message in these tracts. Unlike most of the media saturated people of this world, national missionary using Gospel tracts are very effective, which also contain pictures. Give to Gospel tracts/literature


These small booklets are produced specifically for the cultures and languages of Asia. Each year, Gospel for Asia publishes more than 30 million pieces of Gospel literature, which are distributed by their missionaries, Bible college students and believers throughout Asia.

How many of us have been given Gospel tracts? In Asia one tracts can literally reach dozens of people, as they are read and then passed on to others.



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Harvest America: Proclaiming the Gospel LIVE Across the Nation

Harvest America is about hundreds of host locations joining together with Pastor Greg Laurie to share the gospel via a nationwide webcast event on August 26, 2012.

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Jesus: The True Light by Billy Graham

Jesus: The True Light by Billy Graham

Why is Christianity so different from every other religion in the world? The answer focuses on the Person of Jesus Christ: Jesus, the Son of God the Father and the second Person of the Trinity.

Today many voices are making other claims. Atheists say there is no God. Polytheism may allow that Jesus is one of many gods. And some say that Jesus is the first of the divine creation, not eternally God. But we boldly echo the ringing conviction of the Apostle Peter: "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God" (Matthew 16:16).

The title Christ means "anointed one." It is the term, in the Greek language, for the ancient Hebrew word Messiah—the anointed one whom God would send to save His people. Peter and the first believers of the early Christian Church recognized Jesus as the Messiah promised in the Old Testament. Their period of world history was one of discouragement and despair. The promised Messiah shone as a beacon in the darkness, and His light has never dimmed: "In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. … That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world" (John 1:4, 9).

Who is Jesus to you? 

Prayer

Lord, thank You for sending Jesus into the darkness of the world so that we could have eternal life. Help us to reflect the Light into the world around us today. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

Scripture quotations are taken by permission from The Holy Bible, New King James Version, copyright ©1979, 1980, 1982 Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, Nashville, Tenn. From Billy Graham: "Decision" magazine, April 2012, taken by permission from "A Biblical Standard for Evangelists," by Billy Graham, ©1984 BGEA.

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Q: How can we harmonize the Gospel accounts of Christ’s Resurrection?

A: Some people assert that the Gospel accounts of the locations, witnesses, and timing of the post-Resurrection appearances of Jesus are contradictory. Scripture exhorts us to be always prepared with answers for the hope that is in us (1 Peter 3:15).

As the annual time of our celebration of our Lord’s Resurrection draws near, Answers in Genesis is presenting a defense and proposed timeline of some of the most important events in history.

This timeline shows that there are absolutely no contradictions in the accounts of the post-Resurrection appearances of Jesus. Like a good reporter piecing together a story from reliable eyewitnesses, we must examine all the eyewitness accounts recorded in God’s Word, realize by faith that for Scripture to be reliable they must all be true, and then see how they fit together without any contrivances.

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Continue reading to see how these accounts are actually complementary rather than contradictory.

 Source: http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/aid/v7/n1/post-resurrection-appearances

Christ's Resurrection: Our Hope by Franklin Graham

Christ's Resurrection: Our Hope by Franklin Graham

On the Saturday after Jesus was crucified, His followers must have felt utterly defeated. Meanwhile, the Pharisees felt they had silenced a critic, the Romans felt they had quashed a rebellion, and the governor had washed his hands of the whole affair.

Then Sunday morning dawned, the gravestone was rolled away, and history was turned inside out. The news—Jesus is alive!—was almost too good to be true. Yet it was undeniably true. So true that His disciples dedicated the rest of their lives to telling the whole world the Good News about Jesus Christ.

On the cross, He died for our sins.

In the tomb, He defeated death.

Nowhere else in this sin-sick world can we find such everlasting hope.

Modern medicine is wonderful—almost miraculous sometimes—but doctors will never defeat death. Now, some of us may live to be a hundred or more. … Every day we have on this earth is a gift from God, but ultimately everyone has to be prepared to face death and judgment. Through the triumph of the cross and resurrection, Jesus has already dealt with both of those.

"When you were dead in your sins... God made you alive with Christ" (Colossians 2:13).

Where is your hope?

Prayer

Lord, this week, we remember that because of Christ's death and resurrection, we no longer have to fear death and the grave. Help us to clearly tell others how they, too, can come to You through Jesus' sacrifice. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

Scripture quotation is taken by permission from The Holy Bible, New International Version, copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. From Franklin Graham: "Decision" magazine, April 2011, ©2011 BGEA.

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Longing For Home by Billy Graham

Longing For Home by Billy Graham

During Christ's ministry on earth, He had no home. He once said, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head" (Matthew 8:20). Those who for Christ's sake had given up houses and lands and loved ones knew little of home life or home joys. It was as if Jesus had said to them: "We have no lasting home here on earth, but my Father's house is a home where we will be together for all eternity."

Amid all the changes that sooner or later will come to break up the earthly home, we have the promise of a home where Christ's followers will remain forever. The Bible teaches, "Here have we no continuing city, but we seek the one to come" (Hebrews 13:14). The Bible says, concerning Abraham, that "he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God" (Hebrews 11:10).

Paul said in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, "Thus we shall always be with the Lord." Our permanent home is not here on earth. Our permanent home is Heaven. Sometimes when things do not go right down here, we get homesick for Heaven. Many times in the midst of the sin, suffering and sorrow of this life, there is a tug at our soul. That is homesickness coupled with anticipation. You may be lying on a hospital bed today, you may be suffering from terrible disease or financial loss or bereavement, and there is a tug in your heart. You are longing for home. You are longing for Heaven.

	What do you have to look forward to?

Prayer

Lord, even now, we feel a yearning in our hearts for home—and nothing on earth can quench it. Thank You for giving us the promise of an eternal home in Heaven after we've walked through life with Jesus. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

Scripture quotations are taken by permission from The Holy Bible, New King James Version, copyright ©1979, 1980, 1982 Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, Nashville, Tenn. From Billy Graham: "Decision" magazine, March 2012, ©1996 BGEA.

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