Posts for May 2012

Wallpaper: "Cast all our cares..."

We can cast all our cares on our Heavenly Father. It's ok to come to him and say "We don't know what to do..." -Alistair Begg

Download this week's wallpaper featuring a quote from Alistair Begg's message "Against All Odds"

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25 winners chosen for May Giveaway contest

The Truth For Life team has randomly selected 25 winners to recieve "Lessons for Life" on CD, "Take Dead Aim Volume II" on CD, "Dangers, Toils & Snares" on CD and the book, "Don't Call It a Comeback" edited by Kevin DeYoung.

Selected winners include:

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Syracuse Listener Event Tomorrow!

Alistair Begg will be speaking tomorrow at North Syracuse Baptist Church...

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Wallpaper: "My grace is sufficient"

"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." -2 Corinthians 12:9

Download this week's wallpaper featuring a verse from Alistair Begg's current series entitled "The Strength of Weakness"

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Looking For a Graduation Gift?

If you are looking for a graduation gift for the high school senior in your life, we encourage you to browse our recommended college reading list. We’ve chosen these books carefully to help young men and women make wise choices as they navigate a new world of independent decision making. While some choices will be inconsequential, others will have lasting effects. Selecting friends, making intimacy decisions and adopting behavior patterns will influence young people positively or negatively. The books on our “staff pick” list address these issues head on.

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Five days left to enter the May Giveaway!

This month you can win all of our May broadcasts on CD and also a copy of this month’s recommended book "Don't Call It a Comeback" edited by Kevin DeYoung.

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Video: "Believing Means Behaving"

No matter what stage of life we are in, every believer needs to understand the link between the faith that we profess and the lifestyle that should characterize us. The challenge isn't to blend in with the culture, but by our distinctiveness, to adorn the gospel. In Titus 2:1-5, Paul begins this instruction in Christian living with older generation of men and women, whose stage in life presents new responsibilities and opportunities to influence those around them.

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Download the latest series: "The Strength of Weakness"

The Apostle Paul had a problem. A thorn in his flesh inhibited his natural ability to live his life and serve God as he wished. He prayed for the removal of his limitation, but Jesus had something better in mind, and he told Paul, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (2 Cor. 12:9). The entire Bible reveals that power is found in weakness for those who know Christ.

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Video: "A Religious Problem" from Alistair Begg

Why is it so important that elders be men who know, teach, and live the truth? Titus 1:10-16 explains that it is a matter of spiritual life and death. Elders must be able to teach the truth so that the people under their care know sound doctrine and are able to distinguish counterfeits in their midst.

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Partner with Truth For Life

Join Truth For Life as a Truthpartner! If listening to the Bible-teaching of Alistair Begg has helped your spiritual life, we hope you will consider supporting the ministry on a regular basis. Truthpartners commit to make a financial gift each month that helps keep Truth For Life on the radio and online.

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Truth For Life Implements Website Improvements

Dear Friends,

At Truth For Life, we've been working hard the past few months to improve our online store and donation pages. We've made enhancements that will enable you to manage your relationship with us online. For example, you can now update your personal information, such as your address and phone number, and you can also make changes to your monthly giving amount and recurring payment arrangements...

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Basics 2012 Series Available Online

The Basics 2012 Pastor’s Conference at Parkside Church was marked by a clear call for pastors to devote themselves to prayer and ministry of the Word. Teaching from Acts 6, pastors were encouraged to revisit the apostles’ theological decision to preach the Gospel, leaving the task of feeding widows to competent men in the church. While many today find themselves consumed by the latest fad or new idea, Alistair Begg affirmed that preaching and prayer are the primary duties of the pastor.

Mark Dever and Voddie Baucham joined Alistair Begg for the Basics 2012 Conference on May 14-16, 2012 at Parkside Church in Chagrin Falls, OH.

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Don’t Call It a Comeback: The Old Faith for a New Day

Author Kevin DeYoung collaborates with a team of young Bible scholars and pastors to speak to a young adult audience about the principles of the Christian faith. Faced with many opposing forces in society today, DeYoung steers young, new and under-discipled Christians back to the foundations of a life centered in Scripture-based values.

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Wallpaper: "Only one life so soon will pass..."

"Only one life so soon will pass... Only what's done for Christ will last."

Download this week's wallpaper featuring a quote from Alistair Begg in a message entitled "The Brevity of Life"

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Monthly Newsletter: "Looking to the Future"

Dear Friends,

Alistair asked me to write on his behalf this month and share the encouraging news that Truth For Life is being heard by more people than ever before. With mid-year 2012 quickly approaching, I am pleased to provide you with a ministry update and affirm how your support is helping God's Word reach listeners all over the world.

In addition to those who tune in to Truth For Life each day on over 1,500 radio outlets, we see many listeners now regularly accessing the broadcast using our app for mobile phones, subscribing to our free podcasts and listening at our website. At this point in the year...

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Video: "Elders, Part Two" from Alistair Begg

As we continue in Titus 1:5-16, we learn that the qualifications given for church elders are both positive (characteristics they must have) and negative (characteristics that must not be true of them). But most important of all is that they have a wholehearted committment to biblical truth.

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Listener Stories: Week 19, 2012

If you have any way of passing this onto Alistair personally, please tell him how truly grateful I have been from what I have learned and been challenged with in the last year since I began listening to him. I am 24 years old, and was working in a warehouse shipping department, and would listen to him on my headphones while working. I have taken advantage of the free downloads as well (my favorite series being "Why Bother With the Bible"). On the 20th of April last month, our entire company was shut down, and I am currently unemployed. It is definitely God's timing, because I began pursuing His calling for me in life. By His grace I will be starting school here in the summer towards preaching God's Word. Truth For Life has been one of the greatest blessings for me to partake in! In one sermon Alistair had said he stays up at night wondering and hoping if his students are learning anything-- please pass along that this student has!
-Jason

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Voddie Baucham, Mark Dever and Alistair Begg at Basics Conference

Watch live streaming of main sessions of the Basics Conference at Parkside Church in Cleveland - May 14-16

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Wallpaper: "Do not underestimate the impact of a solitary life..."

"Do not underestimate the impact of a solitary life lived to God's glory."
-Alistair Begg

Download this week's wallpaper featuring a quote from Alistair Begg in a message entitled "Approved by God"

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Enter the May Truth For Life Giveaway!

This month you can win all of our May broadcasts on CD and also a copy of this month’s recommended book.

Twenty-five of our Facebook and Twitter friends will be selected to win "Lessons for Life" on CD, "Take Dead Aim Volume II" on CD, "Dangers, Toils & Snares" on CD and the book, "Don't Call It a Comeback" edited by Kevin DeYoung.

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If God Has a Wonderful Plan for My Life, How Can I Discover What It Is?

There are times when our desire to find fulfillment, to please God, or even to avoid failure traps us in a state of indecision. The question God cares about most is not "Where should I live?" but "Do I love God with all my heart?"

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Happy Mother’s Day!

We hope you are able to take time this Mother's Day weekend to enjoy the company of your family. The Bible affirms the family as the foundational unit of society, and mothers have been chosen by God to be teachers and caregivers to their children.

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The Dangers of Jealousy

In a world where success is measured in terms of material wealth, popularity or professional success, it’s easy to conclude that our neighbor is doing better than we are! Such deductions can either generate feelings of happiness for another’s well-being or plant seeds of bitterness and resentment.

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Weekly Sermon: "Elders, Part One"

Browse through a book on leadership, and you may read that good leaders are marked by giftedness, personality, and organizational skills. But when Paul urged Titus to see that elders were appointed in the church at Crete, he provided a very different list of qualifications. In this study in Titus 1:5-9, we learn that the elders should be men whose lives are submitted to the word of God who shepherd the church by teaching and guarding the truth.

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Is Electronic Communication Controlling Your Life?

Tim Challies' book, The Next Story: Life and Faith After the Digital Explosion, offers a wide-angle perspective on living in a mediated world. While a large portion of our face-to-face communication has been replaced with electronic exchanges, Tim Challies reminds us that...

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Wallpaper: "To realize the value of one millisecond..."

"To realize the value of one year,
ask a student who failed a grade.
To realize the value of one month,
ask the mother of a premature baby.
To realize the value of one week,
ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of one day,
ask a daily wage laborer with kids to feed.
To realize the value of one hour,
ask two people in love who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of one minute,
ask a person who missed the train.
To realize the value of one second,
ask the person who just avoided an accident.
To realize the value of one millisecond,
ask the person who won a silver Olympic medal."
-Unknown

Download this week's wallpaper featuring a quote from Alistair Begg in a message entitled "Making the Most of Every Opportunity"

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Weekly Sermon Video: "Truth Tightly Packed"

Paul wrote to Titus as a servant of God, appointed by grace, with a clear purpose in mind: to see people come to faith and grow in the faith to which they have come. This study in Titus 1:1-4 explores Paul's authority and the singlemindedness of his ministry to the people whom God has been calling to himself from eternity.

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