Glimpses Into The Gospels: Books Of Good News

Glimpses into the Gospels of the New Testament - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The man we know as Jesus Christ, is the one whom Christian claim came in love. Jesus came into the world as their Saviour, to guide people into the Kingdom of God. In this llttle book of the Glimpses series, together we delve into some of the words of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. In doing so, we investigate what they meant when he spoke them and what significance they have for people today. People who are seeking to live out a life worthy of being called disciples of Jesus Christ. Christians being used by Jesus Christ to change the world one person at a time for the glory of God! Is that you?
Here is an outline of what we look at together:

• Introductions to each of the Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
• 1. A Christian’s Commitment (Matthew 7:21-29)
• 2. Jesus’ Relationship with the Christian (Matthew 14:22-33)
• 3. Discipleship Of Jesus Christ (Matthew 22:37-39)
• 4. Jesus Final Moments (Matthew 27:27-44)
• 5. Jesus’ Last Command (Matthew 28:18-20)
• 6. Jesus and the Cross (Mark 15:33-41)
• 7. A Tale For Christians (Luke 14:25-35)
• 8. I Will Share My Faith (Luke 19:10)
• 9. Understanding the Kingdom (John 3:1-18)

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I was born in a small country town in Australia. I was raised to be a skeptic / agnostic / atheist with the words ＂Churches are dangerous places. Stay well clear of them and Christians!＂ So coming into my teenage years in the eighties, I decided if they are so dangerous let’s go for a bit of danger! So I rebelled, became a Christian and started attending a local Christian youth group. After a bit, it was thought by my family that I was being brainwashed, so I was stopped from going for a couple of years, until I met somebody who I used to go to school with who invited me to her church, and I restarted from there... As to how I came to the UK! Well, I came here from Australia for 6 months travel around Europe! Or so I thought! That was in 1990! I view it as God having a sense of humour. In 2003, I had a minor stroke and I view that as God giving me a clip round the ear to stop being stubborn and to listen to Him for direction. So instead of moving north with my job at Royal Mail, I took redundancy and went off to Moorlands college where I graduated in 2007. I set up Partakers in 2007. I had recorded some audio files as part of a block placement during my 3rd year at Moorlands. Six months later I looked back on the site and discovered that the 16 audio files had been downloaded several thousand times, mainly in a country where evangelical Christians are persecuted. It was also part of my dissertation investigating if a Virtual Church could be part of the universal church. I based my study on the old maxim: one, holy, catholic and apostolic church. I still took the normal route post-bible college and applied for pastor jobs around the UK. I often was interviewed but the 2 main reasons given for not being successful was that I was too radical (as in application and use of internet/digital space etc.), too much of a teacher or both! It was like ＂You can’t seriously use the internet to evangelize and disciple others!＂ It was a bit like when the printing press came out and the church’s collective bellybutton puckered and said ＂You can’t give the bible to people, they may actually read it!＂ To date Partakers Podcasting site has had about 2,500,000 unique visitors so far and about 4,000,000 downloads. The Partakers YouTube site has had over 250,000 viewings. I also have about 100 different contributors globally including a number of people from the church we are attached to and helping them to practice their gifting. I currently reside in the UK