Mark 16:15 And He said unto them, go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

Dear friends,

The need to go is greater than ever.

Our world is in turmoil and every day new problems appear which cannot be solved by governments or social services.

To reach lost is becoming more difficult because of the hostile way in which the word of God is under attack.

It has come to my notice that one way we can reach the lost is through literature.

With this in view I have Bibles, New Testaments, John's Gospels in foreign languages and children's Bibles and booklets which are available

for you to use free of charge.

Please contact me if you can find a use for this method of evangelism.

I can supply John's Gospels in most available languages and if you can pass on the address of someone whom you think would benefit from Gospel literature

I would only be very happy to supply them.

with every blessing

Charles

Email: fergcharles@googlemail.com

Timeless Truth for Truthless Times

Free Bible, Literature Distribution, Street Evangelism & Book Ministry

Is Christmas a Pagan Rip-off?

We’ve heard it so many times that it’s practically part of the Christmas story itself.

The Romans celebrated their seven-day winter festival, Saturnalia, starting on December 17. It was a thoroughly pagan affair full of debauchery and the worship of the god Saturn. To mark the end of the winter solstice, the Roman emperor established December 25 as a feast to Sol Invictus (the Unconquered Sun). Wanting to make Christianity more palatable to the Romans and more popular with the people, the church co-opted these pagan festivals and put the celebration of the birth of their Savior on December 25. For whatever the Christmas holiday has become today, it started as a copycat of well-established pagan holidays. If you like Christmas, you have Saturnalia and Sol Invictus to thank.

That’s the story, and everyone from liberal Christians to conservative Christians to non-Christians seem to agree that it’s true.

Except that it isn’t

Read the rest here....

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevin-deyoung/is-christmas-a-pagan-rip-off/

To Be Free, You Need Self Control

In the winter of 2006, Lydia Angyiou, a 41-year-old mother of two, fought a polar bear and survived. Angyiou and her two young sons were walking by the local community center when a group of kids playing ice hockey began frantically shouting. Turning around, Angyiou saw a 700-pound polar bear staring down her 7-year-old. Instinctively, she put herself between the beast and her child, yelled for the boys to run and get help, and began to kick and punch the bear until a man arrived with a rifle.

We hear stories like this from time to time, of men and women carrying out extraordinary acts of will, often using—through the power of adrenaline—what seems like otherworldly strength. It seems the potential capacity of human willpower is far greater than what most of us imagine.

Read the rest here.....

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/cultivate-free-life-self-control/