Martin Luther
“Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.” —Luther
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This page contains the resources that I have found useful in my personal and professional life. Admittedly, it is an eclectic list. It contains everything from quotes and books that I like to podcasts, videos, and slideshows.
If you don’t want to scroll through the entire list, you can click on one of the links below and filter the resources by specific category.
I will update this list as I discover new resources. If you have a resource you think I should add, please email me.
It’s a sad thing when demons recognize Jesus, but people don’t.
Mark 1:34 (KJV)
34 And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him.
Luis Palau Festival Draws 60,000 to Central Park
NEW YORK CITY — Evangelist Luis Palau is covering America’s largest city with the gospel. This weekend, his ministry is taking over New York’s Central Park with a festival that’s taken three years to plan. It takes days of work and hundreds of people to turn the famous park into center stage for City Fest, Palau’s latest Christian crusade — an outdoor service for 60,000 people. CBN News Efrem Graham toured the area with the evangelist as he sized up final preparations.
“It’s the largest one I have ever seen that we have used – except maybe Buenos Aires and Argentina, which was sort of large,” he said. “This one is so massive. And the city skyline, that is what really gets you.”
The vibrant 80 year old has personally preached to more than 30 million people in 75 countries.
It’s taken a long time and a lot of work to bring the good news to the Big Apple. Palau’s team partnered with city government and more than 1,700 churches three years ago to create NY City Serve. They then rolled up their sleeves to lift up the city’s poorest residents.
For more on this story see: http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2015/July/Luis-Palau-Festival-Draws-60000-to-Central-Park/
Where and When We Meet
The Lighthouse meets at The Assembly on Sundays at 10:45 AM in Room 242.
The Assembly is located at 101st and Olive in Broken Arrow, OK.
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only idea you have. – Emile-Auguste Chartier
Bibles Flood Into Cuba to Meet Growing Demand
Christians in Cuba received more than 83,000 Bibles earlier this month from the International Missions Board. The Bibles come at a time of growth in the evangelical church in Cuba. The Baptist Convention in Cuba is distributing the Bibles to believers in more than 1,000 churches all over the island.
Bibles have not been sold in Cuban bookstores for more than 50 years. The only place people can get one is at a church.
For more on this story see: http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2015/June/Bibles-Poured-into-Cuba-to-Meet-Christianity-Boom-/
Scientists Introduce Worlds’ Smallest Bible
Scientists in Israel have created the world’s smallest Bible, a text so small that it could fit on the tip of a pen.CNN reports the Nano Bible includes 1.2 million letters of the Old Testament etched onto a miniscule disc. To read the scripture, it would have to be magnified about 10,000 times.
To create the Bible, scientists from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology used silicon that was 100 atoms thick and plate it with gold. The characters were engraved with a focused ion beam.
The Nano Bible is now being displayed at the Israel Museum’s 50th anniversary exhibit.
For more on this story see: http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/06/middleeast/israel-worlds-smallest-bible/
When Coach Wooden noticed that a player wasn’t giving 100 percent in practice, he would take that person aside and say,“I know you think you can make up tomorrow for what you don’t do today, but that is impossible. If you are giving 50 percent today, you can’t give 150 percent tomorrow! You can never give more than 100 percent.” – John Wooden
John Wooden
Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership (Center Street, October 7, 2014), 510
Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership (Center Street, October 7, 2014), 510
Duck Dynasty’s Si Robertson Says There’s No Such Thing as an Atheist
‘Duck Dynasty’ star Si Robertson, who’s known for being an outspoken Christian, told CP Voice earlier this week that as a Vietnam veteran he knows there’s no such thing as an atheist because when people find themselves in a life-threatening situation they cry out to God, saying, “please help me.” Discussing his new film “Faith of Our Fathers,” which tells the story of two Vietnam veterans — one a devout Christian and the other a skeptic — Robertson explained that the bonds soldiers develop in wartime are “thicker than blood, because they’ve faced death together.”
In an interview with CP Voice on Wednesday, Robertson, along with the film’s lead actor Kevin Downes, commented on how the Gospel is presented in the letters between the two men. “One is a skeptic. And there’s a lot of skeptics,” said Robertson. “I dont believe there’s a such thing as an atheist. Because there’s too much documentation. Our calenders are based on Jesus Christ.”
“Whether you believe in Him or not, every time you write down the day’s date you’re saying He’s here,” continued Robertson, who reiterated his point that when it comes to circumstances of life and death, there aren’t any atheists. “Because if you get in a serious bind, the first thing you’ll do is say [God,] please help me.”
Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/duck-dynastys-si-robertson-says-theres-no-such-thing-as-an-atheist-talks-new-film-faith-of-our-fathers-141145/#RtSBcBdspckJdZLV.99
ISIS Trainer Turns to the Bible, ‘Sick of the Killing’
As Islamic State fighters continue to slaughter and behead Christians and others, some of its members 
are reportedly having encounters with Christ.
A Middle East missionary named “Julian” says a sheik who served as a jihadist teacher for ISIS has turned to the Bible because he became “sick of the killing.”
The Operation Mobilization missionary shared the story with Todd Nettleton on the Voice of the Martyrs radio show. Julian said the sheik was traveling home from Lebanon when he asked a taxi driver for a Bible.
“The taxi driver knew a Christian in Beirut who was very happy to give the guy with the beard a Bible and then, ‘Sir, would you like to tell us why you’re looking for a Bible?’ And his response was ‘I’m from Saudi. I’m a sheikh,’ which means a teacher of Islam,” Julian recounted the story. “‘I’ve been in Syria teaching the ISIS fighters jihad 101,’ the theology and the practice of jihad. ‘I’m sick of the killing. There must be something better than this.'”
VOM’s Nettleton explained, “He had come to see that the violence of ISIS was not the path to peace. He was tired of it; he wanted something else, and so he was interested in having a Bible. “
For more on this story see: ISIS Trainer Turns to the Bible ‘Sick of the Killing’
Somewhere between your skills, your joy, and your unique contribution is your job description.
—Michael Hyatt
michaelhyatt.com
Get Ready to Be Shocked: The Church Divorce Rate
This is a game-changer. Talk about “an old wives’ tale.” You’ve heard it said that 1) 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce; 2) most marriages that do happen to make it are, nonetheless, unhappy, and 3) Christians are just as likely to divorce as non-believers. These claims, long understood to be research-based facts, never quite sat right with me. Still, admittedly, while these assertions do swim upstream against the flow of both our common sense and our common experience, we have, nevertheless, accepted them (present company included) as valid because – well, you know, because “social science …”
Here is the truth….
♥ The actual divorce rate has never gotten close to 50 percent.
♥ Those who attend church regularly have a significantly lower divorce rate than those who don’t.
♥ Most marriages are happy.
♥ Simple changes make a big difference in most marriage problems.
♥ Most remarriages succeed.
“‘But the divorce rate has been dropping,’ Feldhahn said. ‘We’ve never hit those numbers [the 50 percent figure]. We’ve never gotten close.’”
“And it’s even lower among churchgoers, where a couple’s chance of divorcing is more likely in the single digits or teens,” added CBN.
Additionally, the study determined that four-out-of-five marriages are happy. “That number flies in the face of the popular belief that only about 30 percent of marriages are happy.”
For more information on this story see: http://www.westernjournalism.com/flash-christians-actually-far-less-likely-divorce/