Multiplying Storytellers in Nicaragua

ABWE missionaries Traci Warner and Carmen Heffner began a Bible study with about 18 women from a local Nicaraguan church, walking them through The Story of Hope. →

Good Soil Fruit that Remains & Reproduces

"In my 40 years of ministry, I can honestly say that I have had more success than ever before in seeing fruit that remains – and also, fruit that is bearing more fruit – through using Good Soil training and resources.” -Steve Deal →

Helping Believers “Hold Fast” to the Gospel

But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop. (Luke 8:15 – NIV) If the ultimate “soil test” is whether or not a professing believer retains (“holds fast to”) the word he or she has embraced, can we do anything to help assure that lasting retention occurs? Or, is that simply a personal heart-issue over which we have no influence? →

Repent and/or Believe? Two Steps or Two Sides?

Is repentance a separate step to salvation that precedes genuine belief in Christ? Or, are repentance and faith simultaneous responses to God—flip sides of the same heart-action? →

Gifted Students in Togo Receive the Greatest Gift

The Lycée Scientifique, a special government school in Togo, is home to the top 120 high school students in science and math. These students represent different tribal groups and religions from all over the country. Togo missionary Jane Schmitz had a yearning to reach them with the gospel. After much prayer, she approached the principal of the school and offered a class on The Story of Hope in French. Jane has always had a heart for evangelism and discipleship, and she was a part of the original group that helped launch Good Soil. The principal responded very favorably to the idea, since the materials being used were a study of the Bible, not a religion. →

Gotta Pray the Sinner’s Prayer?

I once ministered in a town where it seems that almost everyone, at some time or another, had “prayed the prayer”—the so-called “sinner’s prayer.” Yet, very few of these people demonstrated any evidence of a genuine Christian life. Often when I shared the gospel with them, they would say: “But, I’ve already done that. I prayed the prayer!” And some would add, “But, it didn’t work for me.” If “praying the prayer” does not save a person, what does? →

Good Soil Evangelism & Discipleship

Multiplying Storytellers in Nicaragua

Good Soil Fruit that Remains & Reproduces

Helping Believers “Hold Fast” to the Gospel

Repent and/or Believe? Two Steps or Two Sides?

Gifted Students in Togo Receive the Greatest Gift

Gotta Pray the Sinner’s Prayer?

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Multiplying Storytellers in Nicaragua

Good Soil Fruit that Remains & Reproduces

Helping Believers “Hold Fast” to the Gospel

Repent and/or Believe? Two Steps or Two Sides?

Gifted Students in Togo Receive the Greatest Gift

Gotta Pray the Sinner’s Prayer?

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