Free Chronological Bible Reading Plan & How to Stay on Track

By Mary Jahnke

If Revelation were the first book of the Bible you read, you'd be very confused. Chronologically, it comes last. But what about the other books of the Bible? They're not in order by date. (Most scholars believe Mark was written before Matthew, for example, but Matthew appears first in most modern Bibles.) And most of […]

These 3 Sweet Things You Can Do in Proclaim Shouldn't Be a Secret

By Mary Jahnke

Sometimes the easiest tricks are the best. You know, the ones that make you wonder it has been all your life. Proclaim has some juicy tricks, too. (Proclaim is presentation software designed for churches. With it, anyone on your team—even responsible pre-teens—can add sermon or song slides, make edits on the fly, or run slides, making service planning easier.) Try these three during your next church presentation to save time and stomp out distractions.

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8 Ancient Prayers of Confession to Adopt as Our Own

By Robert Elmer

How many different ways can we apologize to God? Quite a few, actually. And in the ancient prayers of God’s people—in Scripture and outside it—their focus quite often turned to confession or its many related expressions: remorse, guilt, regret, contrition, repentance. But confession back then could also easily rise to a level that makes current-day […]