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This episode is our monthly news roundup for November. In this episode, we’re talking about how valuable your teenager is to Instagram, how often abortion leads to depression, and an infant in the UK who recently died after government officials refused to allow her parents to pursue medical treatments elsewhere.Continue Reading
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This episode is our monthly news roundup for September. In this episode, we’re talking about how moms who use social media are more likely to think they are doing a bad job of parenting, a former Kentucky clerk who has been ordered to pay a huge fine for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, and a common misconception about baptism and salvation.Continue Reading
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This week we’re talking about social media and the way others respond to the religious content we might post on there. Many Christians use social media, at least in part, to share content that contains a religious message (articles, images, videos, etc.). However, if you do this on a regular basis, there’s a good chance you’ve had people block, unfollow, or unfriend you on that social media site. And often you won’t even know when this has happened. So what do we do about this? We’re going to talk about that in our episode today.Continue Reading
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This week I’m going to share some thoughts on three books I’ve read recently. The three books all deal with the topic of social media. This relatively new technology has saturated our culture to the extent that it is difficult to imagine a world without it anymore. Social media affects everyone – even the few who do not use it. Those of us who do use it need to be especially careful about how it is affecting us.Continue Reading
Last year I reviewed a book by Chris Martin – Terms of Service: The Real Cost of Social Media – about how social media affects us and how we can avoid its pitfalls. Since I finished that book, I’ve been recommending it to others (read my review here). So when I heard that he had a new book coming out, I was sure to pre-order a copy of it.
[Full disclosure: I was able to get a free copy of the ebook before the release, hence the reason why this review is being posted before the official release date. But this was after I pre-ordered a printed copy of it.]
The new book – The Wolf in Their Pockets: 13 Ways the Social Internet Threatens the People You Lead – deals with the same theme as Terms of Service but is directed at church leaders and the challenges they face as the members of their churches are under the influence of social media.Continue Reading
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This week we’re talking about evangelism and social media. Recently I had an opportunity to join brother Osamagbe Lesley Egharevba – a gospel preacher in Nigeria – for a discussion on his YouTube channel on this topic. The episode today contains a portion of our discussion. Brother Lesley was gracious enough to allow me to share this discussion here with the Plain Bible Teaching audience.Continue Reading
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With the start of the new year, we tend to look ahead over the next twelve months to see what we can improve, how we might change, and what goals we want to hit. In the episode last week I talked about some areas of focus that we can use to make the most of our time in the new year. However, when we talk about goals, resolutions, etc., we tend to think of possibilities and opportunities for something good. Today, we want to look at some challenges that could be facing Christians and churches in the new year. The more we are aware of these potential challenges, the better we will be able to prepare.Continue Reading
Peter issued this challenge to all Christians: “But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence” (1 Peter 3:15). However, many Christians feel unprepared to do this; therefore, many conversations that could potentially lead people to the truth never get started.
This book will help equip all Christians to start engaging in spiritual conversations with those around them by providing simple answers to some basic Bible questions. Being ready to give an answer does not mean having an answer to every possible question at the drop of a hat. Instead, it means being able to give a ready answer to questions that are fundamental to our faith that can open the door to further discussions and studies with those who are interested. By studying the material in this book and becoming familiar with the Scriptures cited in each answer, Christians will be better prepared and have more confidence when they discuss their faith with others.
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