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The Believing Touch
In Mark 5, we are told of a woman struggling with an affliction for twelve years. She went to many doctors, spent what she had hoping for improvement, but none of that helped. She was desperate. Then she heard about Jesus. Healings. Miracles of a nature convincing her...
Netcasters Junior Viewbook
Like the standard Netcasters™ Viewbook, the Netcasters Junior Viewbook is a particularly useful tool for explaining the gospel. Designed with children in mind, this full-color, pocket-sized, spiral-bound flipchart uses a simplified version of the Netcasters gospel...
Spiritual Movements: Confusion and Clarity
Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee? – Psalm 85:6 When a movement among God's people causes people to love Jesus, lift up Jesus, worship and praise the Lord, go to extreme lengths to meet with God, confess sins, get right with each...
The Spirit of Revival at Asbury
God is moving again at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky. The school has been blessed with revivals on a fairly regular basis since 1905, and the major revival that occurred in 1970 impacted at least 130 other campuses at the time. All of this revival history is...
The Gate to Eternal Life Gospel Tract
As we continue into a post-Christian America, people are less familiar with the true gospel message and more apt to embrace broad ideas about the hereafter and heaven. Jesus, however, spoke of a narrow gate and a narrow way. The Gate to Eternal Life is a 4-panel...
The Revival Journey Download
In The Revival Journey, The Phases of Corporate Revival, John Van Gelderen dedicates a chapter to each of the five phases of corporate revival discernible in Scripture. If you do not own a copy, the book is available from the Revival Focus online store. Two...
Practical Helps for Spiritual Health
The human constitution involves physical, psychological, and spiritual dimensions, or simply put, body, soul, and spirit. Each aspect interrelates to the one next to it; the body interrelates to the soul and the soul interacts with the spirit. So the soul, positioned...
Radical Faith
Revelation 12:11 provides an amazing testimony for persecuted believers. “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.” May we, as believers, enter 2023 with such love for Jesus that...
How to Approach the New Year
The prospect of a new year brings hope for positive change. Many will make resolutions, but what is the real key to change? Psalm 1:1-3 provides an answer: “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor...
Living the Christ Life
If the Lord tarries, we will soon enter a new calendar year and have a great opportunity to choose a 365‑day devotional. Daily devotional readings can be used of the Spirit to stir the heart and whet the appetite for your own personal daily Bible study. The...
Short Books with Long-range Impact Potential
With the Christmas season upon us, our thoughts often turn to loved ones, wish lists, gift wrapping, and stocking stuffers. This year, would you consider giving gifts that God can use to change lives? These books are small in size; at 4½ inches wide, they would fit in...
Unconditional Love, Conditional Benefit
Speaking of Christ’s sacrifice for us, Charles Wesley wrote in his hymn And Can It Be the rich words “amazing love.” Truly God's love is amazing. It is undeserved. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Rom....
Gratitude or Grumbling
The Thanksgiving season is a reminder of the importance of gratitude. Paul exhorted, “Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition,...
The Revival Journey (New Cover Design)
Seasons of refreshing from the presence of the Lord—we certainly are in need of another season. What are the phases that lead up to and include revival? In the Scripture there are five discernable phases. The Revival Journey details those phases and interlaces the...
The Gift of Christmas
Order Now! It is time to place your order and be ready to give the gospel this Christmas season. The Gift of Jesus, a Christmas tract written by John Van Gelderen, highlights the gospel message of John 3:16 and closes with a clear invitation to believe in Jesus. These...
The Service of Leadership
The terminology “servant-leadership” is popular yet often misunderstood. Typically, emphasis is placed on doing mundane tasks like washing floors—and certainly, no leader should be above dirty work. To be above getting one's hands dirty would be arrogant and pathetic....
The Potter and The Clay: Fate or Faith?
Jeremiah tells us, “Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it” (Jer....
Keswick Theology and Sinless Perfectionism
Keswick theology addresses only sanctification and teaches sanctification by faith. Much emphasis is placed on Christ in the believer accessed by faith based on passages like Galatians 2:20, “Christ liveth in me…by faith.” Keswick theology pays much attention to...
Available Now: Wind of the Spirit (Audiobook)
The Wind of the Spirit (audiobook format) is now available on Audible. Check out this brief message from the narrator, Michael Barnett:
Boldness vs. Brashness
In a context of highlighting the ministry of the Spirit, Paul makes a connection to boldness. He said, “Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness [boldness] of speech” (2 Cor. 3:12). The reference to such hope summarizes Paul's unfolding of the...
Sectarian Carnality
When I was a child, I remember hearing my dad preach against being a carnal Christian. I was puzzled. I liked “caramel” and couldn’t figure out why dad was against “caramel Christians.” It made better sense after my vocabulary expanded a bit. The word carnal means...
Assurance of Salvation — Dispelling Doubts with Infallible Truth
Lack of assurance is a big deal. When clouds of doubt block the sunshine of our assurance of salvation, a sense of foreboding plagues us. The fear of hell becomes a sobering reality, leading to loss of joy and strength. We also leave the ground of victory. We lose...
Learning the Holy Spirit’s Leading
When we speak of the importance of following the Holy Spirit's leading, a question often asked is, “How do you know the Spirit's leading?” Two principles provide light: First, there is the wisdom of the Spirit, in which the ultimate faculty addressed is our mind. This...
Is There Healing in the Atonement?
The prolonging of life has been pursued for centuries. Many long for a “fountain of youth,” and numbers have searched for healing. In this light, there has been theological debate with detailed arguments offered on both sides as to whether there is healing in the...
Good News – Gospel Tract
Good News presents a great opportunity to hand someone a tract and say, “May I give you some good news?” During a recent visit to Brooklyn, I held out a Good News tract to an older gentleman. My request to impart some good news was met with a rather sober response,...
Perplexing Suffering: Gleanings from Job
Job's story can enlighten our understanding of a man’s relationship to his Lord while providing insight relevant to our own lives. Job had an upstanding testimony (Job 1:1), but Satan still falsely accused him before God (Job 1:9-11). God then allowed Satan to assault...
Experiencing Jesus!
Is experiencing Jesus the supreme reality of your present experience—or is it otherwise (perhaps quite otherwise)? Habits Have any bad habits? Are they getting worse rather than better? And besetting sins, have you succeeded in overcoming them or does sin maintain its...
Desiring Spiritual Truth
My father used to say that hunger is the key to spiritual growth. Under inspiration, Peter said, “As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby,” (1 Pet. 2:2). A series of thoughts will unfold the richness of this text. First,...
The Beauty of Holiness
Isaiah 6:2-3Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of...
The Holy Spirit in Gospel Proclamation
A reading of the book of Acts thrills the heart with the power of the Spirit in the gospel! The success of the gospel advance in Acts is directly linked to the Holy Spirit in at least three ways. We may and must trust in the same Holy Spirit as the believers did in...
