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READ the rest of the story in Acts 16:25–34. ANSWER these questions: 1. What did Paul and Silas do that had an impact on the jailer? 2. How did these actions cause the jailer to ask how he could be saved? 3. Tell about a time when your actions led someone to ask you about your faith. (If you don’t have an answer, what simple changes could you make

A few years later, a girl a couple grades below me mentioned that first lesson and said it had influenced her. No one ever remarked on my “clever” lesson. That moment convinced me that expounding God’s Word impacts people most—far more than human cleverness, humor, and creativity.

How can we-creatures who are physical and spiritual and fallen in our sin-obey this verse? How can we triumph over our sin and our flesh to perform this profoundly spiritual act? More to the point of this book, if you and I have a hard enough time trying to obey this verse, how can your immature young son accomplish this?

Simple answer: Your son's

Second, we need to be honest about what the Bible does not say regarding the practical expressions of masculinity and femininity. For example, there is no biblically prescribed initiation into manhood or womanhood, despite what certain books in the Christian bookstore might say.

Servant-leadership “Whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave” (Matthew 20:26-27).

Crisis results from having sufficient, relevant facts to create a problem that listeners have an interest in solving and that forces them to journey through a narrative to discover the resolution found in the climax. If preachers do not bring an audience to the edge of wonder, grief, anger, confusion, fear, or discovery, then their words have no

Francis Bacon put it bluntly, “If a man write little, he had need have a great memory.”[12]

Messages that are not Christ-centered (i.e., not redemptively focused) inevitably become human-centered, even though the drift most frequently occurs unintentionally among evangelical preachers. These preachers do not deliberately exclude Christ’s ministry from their own, but by consistently preaching messages on the order of “Five Steps to a

Here are a few ways you can look different to a watching world when you lose: • Thank God for the opportunity to compete. • Lead both teams in prayer after the competition. • Shake your opponent’s hand. • Affirm your teammates with encouraging words. • Thank the referees or officials. • Honor your coaches by respectfully listening to what they have