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FREE Templates and motivational articles: Read through the Bible in a year—Templates for handouts, booklets

4 January, 2020 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

One of the most important things you can do for your congregation is to encourage them to read through the Bible in a year in chronological order. I've created a printed schedule, booklets, and motivational articles to help you do that. Now is a great time to be planning ahead to do this.

All of it FREE to everyone. Please pass on and share with others.

This post has:

  • A short summary of why it is important to read the Bible in chronological order this is beneficial, at the end of this post are two more articles. You can use these in any of your communications to encourage your people.
  • Handouts for the schedule in MS Word
  • A Booklet of the Schedule in MS Publisher
  •  A short video that shows you how to create the booklet
  • Two more motivational articles from my Bible blog, www.bible805.com

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Filed Under: Bible & Faith Resources, Discipleship and Christian Maturity, Misc. Advice and Articles, TEMPLATES Tagged With: Bible reading plan, Free bible reading plan, read through the Bible

Biblical Encouragement Postcards and a FREE DOWNLOADS for you to reproduce

8 November, 2016 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

BIblical Encouragement for our crazy world
Click on the image to download a PDF you can share to encourage and remind yourself and friends that God is always with and for His people.

We all need this now don't we? A reminder of the strength and goodness and peace given to us by our God.

These are all half of an 8 1/2 by 11 paper size and can be used to make postcards, bulletin inserts, share online or whatever. The ECC Members file has ready-to-print PDFs, Editable MS Publisher file, and jpegs optimized for the web. CLICK on an image and it will take you through a slide show of them. Slow down, read them and be at peace.

Below is the FREE ZIP FILE to download these cards.

CLICK on the following link to download the ZIP file:  biblical-encouragment-postcards

 

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Website links to help visitors explore the Christian faith

7 November, 2012 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Search for answers about Christianity
The Christian faith is worth exploring and here are some resources that will help you do it.

This page has links to explain the Christian faith, the person of Jesus, and that help seekers explore what it's all about. In our post-Christian world, we want to make sure that when we challenge people to make a decision to trust Jesus as Savior that they know what it means.

There are many other sites that are very useful in clarifying the Christian faith—check out recommendations from friends and your denominations. PLEASE add any you have found useful in the comments section below.

But whatever resources you use, please use links like this on your website, your bulletins, newsletters and on your outreach communications.

Even if they only make a brief connection with your church at a special event, give seekers opportunities to explore the Christian faith, Links like this could change their eternal destiny.

Websites for exploring the Christian faith: [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Bible & Faith Resources, Christianity defined, Church Outreach and Marketing, Discipleship and Christian Maturity, Evangelism & Outreach Tagged With: evangelism communications, website links for seekers, what it means to trust Jesus

Does God care when we mess up?

20 June, 2012 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Not only in big areas and sins that take us away from God and family, but in little ways, every day we run away from our Father. And we fear His reaction.

This video will help you see how He is waiting for you with arms of love.

If you want more information on how this was created, CLICK HERE.

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Faith Resources for seekers that you need to put on your communications

6 December, 2009 By Yvon Prehn 1 Comment

Resources for more information about the Christian faith
Here are resources for more information about the Christian faith--use in your communications.

This page has links to explain the Christian faith and that help seekers explore what it's all about. In our post-Christian world we want to make sure that when we challenge people to make a decision to trust Jesus as Savior that they know what it means.

There are many other sites that are very useful in clarifying the Christian faith--check out recommendations from friends and your denominations. PLEASE add any you have found useful in the comments section below.

But whatever resources you use, please use links like this on your website, your bulletins, newsletters and on your outreach communications. 

Even if they only make a brief connection with your church at a special event, give seekers opportunities to explore the Christian faith,  Links like this could change their eternal destiny.

Websites for those exploring the Christian faith: [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Bible & Faith Resources, RESOURCES Tagged With: Bible Resources, Communications, Faith Resources, yvon prehn

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