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Just One Click - Robert J Baird, Ronald L VanderBeck
Did you know that one in five Americans (including Christians) uses the Internet for pornography or cybersex? That 37 percent of pastors struggle with pornography? That child pornography is one of the fastest-growing businesses online? And it’s all just one click away.
http://faithaliveresources.org/Products/155249/just-one-click.aspx
THE S.A.F.E. Site
Welcome to The S.A.F.E. Site! Literature Ministries has always been proactive in the battle for purity. Believing that personal purity has never been harder for the Christian than it is today, we now supplement our own publications with carefully chosen resources. They are right here on The S.A.F.E. Site. Literature Ministies' biblically-based approach to dealing with online temptations has always included both prescriptive and preventative steps, emphasizing reliance on the Holy Spirit.
http://litmin.org/safe.php
Using the Bridge Strategy with integrity and wisdom in Christian evangelism
Using the Bridge Strategy
“Use what is dominant in a culture to change it very quickly. It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender”
– Carved quotation outside Ulazdowski Castle Arts Centre, Warsaw
The Bridge Strategy is a major factor in effective online outreach. It allows us to target any group of people according to their special interest or felt need, hobby, ethnicity or language (I Cor 9:19-23). This is a quite remarkable and unique capability of the Internet.
However, it is important that there should be no element of trickery in either bringing people to the page in the first place, or the content they find when they reach it (2 Cor 4:2). At the same time, any outreach site should use appropriate contextualization for its readers: the X-Spectrum enables us to define this on a scale of 1 to 6.
http://internetevangelismday.com/no-trick.php
Worthy Christian witness - the difference between proselytism and true evangelism with integrity
“Preach the gospel at all times – if necessary, use words.” A comforting thought, uttered by Francis of Assisi 900 years ago. Too comforting.
Despite spending well over half my life with my mission, my natural tendency is to keep quiet and hope my light is shining. But Arthur Glasser (Announcing the Kingdom, Baker 2003, p. 156) reminds us that ̶...evangelization of the world is a matter of both words and activity. It cannot be reduced to mere presence without dismissing all the valid data in the New Testament about imploring people ‘on Christ’s behalf: be reconciled to God.”
http://internetevangelismday.com/worthy-witness.php
Nothing But the Best - #6077
There are many ways to rob our King. By giving Him your leftover time; by making Him Lord of the things that don't matter that much to you and holding onto the things that you really care about - that relationship, that child, that dream, that favorite thing - that sin. You can rob God by taking on a work for Him and just doing it halfheartedly, by being lazy or irresponsible in getting it done.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/nothing-but-the-best-6077
The "Go To" God That's Got To Go - #6022
When Jesus has sacrificed His life for you, when He has all the power and all the love in the universe, how could you need something or someone else to fall back on?
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/the-go-to-god-that-s-got-to-g...
The Only Applause That Matters - #5943
Who are you living to please: the boss, the pastor, your family, your friends, the church, some guy or girl, the community? They didn't die for you. Their rewards don't hold a candle to His. The early church leader, Stephen, knew that. He had stood up for the truth on the streets of Jerusalem and the crowd was not applauding.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/the-only-applause-that-matter...
Followers with Footnotes - #5928
Jesus assured Peter he was losing nothing any more than you lose the money you invest in a stock that later goes sky high. In fact, Jesus promises a reward a hundred times any sacrifice you make. What a return! But that kind of reward is reserved for those who give Jesus a blank piece of paper, not a contract.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/followers-with-footnotes-5928
The Most Vulnerable Spot - #3105
When you are handling money, always take the high road. Don't see how close to the edge of integrity you can play - see how far you can stay from the edge - always erring on the side of taking too many precautions. Money seems to have spiritual power - and Satan knows it. He has used the abuse of it - or just naive carelessness with it - to majorly harm to the name of Christ and the trust of God's people.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/the-most-vulnerable-spot-3105
A Very Expensive House - #5925
In a sense, you drag God into everything you do with your body. It's not your body to do what you please with, to drink what you want, eat what you want, watch what you want, listen to what you want. You don't eat what you want, do what feels good with it, put poison into it, and use it for things God hates. This house was bought at a very expensive price; in fact, the highest price ever paid - the life of the sinless Son of God. And now you've invited Him to move into this house He paid for with His life. Treat your body like what it really is. It's the property of God!
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/a-very-expensive-house-5925
