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Welcome to Ministry Helps.
The links below are to help you navigate the best of the Internet.
God bless,
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Means one of the better
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| Children | Music - Contemporary Various Christian Artists |
| Devotional/Bible Study | Music - Guitar (See choruses with chords) |
| Divorce Recovery | Music - Banjo |
| Family | Other Churches |
| General Facts & Free Stuff! | Other Languages (Spanish, German & more) |
| Holidays | Pastor's Resources & Pastor's Wives Resources; Periodicals (Christian) |
| Humor | Sermon helps |
| Marriage | Some of my favorite Search Engines; Subscribing to free e-mail subscriptions |
| Men's Ministry | Women's Ministry |
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Summary of the Bible
The Christian Classics Ethereal Library - A large repository of Christian texts. Somewhat cumbersome to navigate. Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Searchable database for this reference work.
Issues in Hermeneutics
- by Herman Hanko of Reformed Protestant Seminary, good overview of issues.
Synopsis of the Bible
- John Nelson Darby's classic work. A survey of the entire Bible. ESermons Check out the samples.
True Vine Online - Bible Study Helps More Bible Helps Links Bibles.Net Bible Study Tools Bible Study Tools. Like the Easton's Bible Dictionary and many others. (Look on the left.) Teach With Movies Use videos or DVDs in a teaching setting.
Resources to help Christians grow in their relationship with God! PowerPoint Presentations that you can copy and reuse. This comes from an anti-Charismatic cessationalist. The Five Gospels Parallels (Thomas is added as a Gospel) Sermon Illustrator Need an illustration? Bartlett - More quotes Bible- KJV This is from the Bible Gateway. Other versions are available. Sermon Resources A "LARGE" list of sermons from many sites with contemporary offerings. Sermons - By Mark Hardgrove The Matthew Henry and other great tools can be found in Bible Study Tools Hitchcock's Bible Names - To find what the Bible name means.
More Dictionaries (The English Dictionary)
Encyclopedias, Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia History B.C. (Before Christ) and A.D. (Anno Domini), Today in Christian History The Executable Outlines Series The Journal of Public Theology Sermons & Sermon Lectionary Resources Sermon Titles in Alphabetical Order Sermons, Stories, & Illustrations Denver Seminary Library Enter User Name: (type) library; Enter password: (hit Enter); (hit Enter); (type) Q (hit Enter); (hit Enter); Then you can choose TITLE WORD(S), TITLE IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER, AUTHOR, SUBJECT WORD(S), Dictionary, and more. Scripture, Bible Programs, etc. Downloads, articles, etc. Greek/Hebrew Interlinear Bible: from Bible Study Tools.
Bible Places - A Great site operated by Prof. Todd Bohlen of The Master's College IBEX Department. A great source for Bible location photographs and materials. These are undoubtedly the best digital photographs of site locations and geographic features of Israel and other Bible-related locations.
Biblical Hermeneutics
- Some good articles and links to be found here.
More Sermon Helps
Duke University Chapel Sermons by The Rev. Dr. William H. Willimon. Hit the "Sermon" button. Bill Bright (Prayer & Fasting) What Voice of Salvation has on fasting. See fasting. Matthew Henry Commentaries A classic. The John MacArthur Collection (Sermons) Revival Sermons of Jonathan Edwards Learning Resources - Online Library (Berean University) More Spurgeon Sermons on Several Occasions by John Wesley Selected Works of Martin Luther 1483 - 1546 Preaching Magazine & American Academy of Ministry Bible Studies from Xenos Listen to Sermons in Real Audio, TV, etc.
Topics from Ron Hutchcraft
Audio Sermons from Living Waters
Listen to Church of Christ Sermons in an MP3 format Steaming Faith . TV Ministries and more. You can watch and listen.
Mark Matheson
from 300 North Main Street, Windermere, FL 34786 USA
Watch and listen to Sermons in Real Audio:
Download the newest G2 Real Audio & Video for yourself. The Audio Bible - listen to it by RealAudio, chapter by chapter.Listen to some great workshops in Real Audio: Listen to sermons from Tony Evans from Dallas, TX. Listen to sermons from David Jeremiah from Turning Point Listen to sermons from Ravi Zacharias MP3 Sermons
Power Point Help Free PPT Templates Free PPT Templates from Brainy Betty More - Free PPT Templates. Even More.
Church History and Early Christian DocumentsChronology of Christianity (1AD-Present) [Catholic] Bible History Online - an amazing free online resource where you can research ancient documents, archaeology,church history and languages, maps and geography, museums and world history, enjoy images from the past, along with quotes, fun facts and humor, find an extensive list of commentaries and reference works on the Web, and more. Guide to Early Church Documents Old Writings. Early Christian Writings - (Qumran texts, Josephus, Learning Greek, Libraries, the Synoptic Gospels, to name a few.) Worlds of Late Antiquity (Augustine, Jerome, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, to name a few) Sermons from Fathers of the Church
like St. Augustine and St. John Crysostom
An Autobiography or, The Memoirs Charles G. Finney 1792-1875
He shares in interesting account of a woman "in a fainting fit" and "could not speak." It continues, "After lying in a speechless state about sixteen hours, Miss G's mouth was opened, and a new song was given her."
The Works of James Arminius Other Languages
Christian Resource Index for Non-English - Bulgarian; Chinese; Dansk; Deutsch; Español; Français; Greek; Hebrew; Lithuanian; Nederlands; Italiano; Japanese; Nørge; Polska; Portuguese; Romanian; Pycck; Suomi; & Sverige. The Greek Online Bible - It uses the font Symbols on your computer. Also, download the complete Greek New Testament called: GNT.zip The Greek Bible with Grammar marks Great if you need to parse the verbs or decline the nouns. Translate text from English to Greek Little Greek - resources on Greek, including an online New Testament Greek tutorial and sound clips so you can check your pronunciation. Enchiridion; A User friendly Guide for reading Ancient Greek. Septuagint Rahlfs' version, HTML (based on U Penn, Unicode font format, TITUS) Resources for New Testament Studies NT Language, Grammar, Syntax (Greek) New Testament Greek for Beginners by J. Gresham Machen Learn Ancient
Greek. A User friendly Guide for reading Ancient Greek. Greek
Grammar. Much helpful information about Greek fonts, lexica, and grammar courses.
German Der Keirsey Temperament Test - This is the German version of the Keirsey Temperament Sorter by - David M. Keirsey Einführung in den Gebrauch des Gateways - This is the Bible in German. Translate phrases to/from English It's great!
Korean Korean Bible (It will ask you to install the Korean Language Pack.) Office XP Tool: Korean Language Pack Office XP Tool: Korean Language Pack by Microsoft To Download the Korean Language Pack
Russian You may need to download Cyrillic fonts for Windows
Spanish La Iglesia de Dios de la Profecía The Church of God of Prophecy in Spanish. La Voz de Salvacion - The Voice of Salvation in Spanish. `Nuestro Pan Diario - Daily Bread in Spanish. El Determinante De Temperamento De Keirsey - This is the Spanish version of the Keirsey Temperament Sorter by - David M. Keirsey Systran link to translate online phrases to/from English Put text in the box, choose English to Spanish, then hit translate. Free Translation Put text in the box to be translated. See the Creation Story in Spanish Download e-Sword v5.0 [18.2 MB] The Reina Valera Version, 1602 (Spanish) is also available Spanish Language Gospel Resources Spanish Enrichment Journal Articles Online from AG - Revista de enriquecimiento en Español Libros Christianos en Espanol! Church Planting in Spanish
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I Love Lucy Bible Study - a series of studies/group discussions based on lessons learned from the classic television series- designed to get kids back into group study in a fun way. True Vine Online - Bible Study Helps
Bibles.Net Bible Study Tools Resources to help Christians grow in their relationship with God! Bibles, Devotionals, and Bible Studies - 42 site listings Dictionaries - Baker's Evangelical dictionary of Biblical Theology; Easton's Bible Dictionary; Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary; Jack Van Impe's Dictionary of Prophecy Terms; King James Dictionary; Smith's Bible Dictionary Commentaries - John Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament; The Fourfold Gospel; Geneva Study Bible; John Gill's Exposition of the Bible; Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible; People's New Testament; Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament; Scofield Reference Notes; The Treasury of David by Charles H. Spurgeon; Wesley's Explanatory Notes.
More Bible Study Helps
The New Testament Greek Lexicon The Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon Lexicons - Old/New Testament Greek and Old Testament Hebrew Scofield Reference Notes (1917 Edition) Writings of the Early Church Fathers Character Studies - Zacchaeus, The Penitent Thief, Simon Peter, The Roman Centurion Women of Character Bible Studies Online Bible Study - Into Thy Word - Character Bible Study Thirteen Bible Characters Studies - Their LIVES and Their PROBLEMS Character Bible Studies - The Twelve Disciples The Five Gospels Parallels (Thomas is added as a Gospel) A Guide to Christian Literature on the Internet World Wide Study Bible you can even listen as Audio Bible Web Resources from Harvard Divinity School Online Bibles and Commentaries on Bible Versions The Bible Gateway With versions and word search. The Greek Online Bible - It uses the font Symbols on your computer. Also, download the complete Greek New Testament called: GNT.zip Christian Classics Ethereal Library Pentecostal Charismatic Theological Inquiry International Other Magazines from the Strang Ministry Group Cult Awareness & Information Centre - Australia Cult & Occult Resources from Youth Specialties CARM - a ministry that gives you information about cults and how to minister to them. Cults -- Mormonism (LDS) and Jehovah's Witnesses
Topics from Ron Hutchcraft
Lifeline Ministries, Inc. WWW Site
The Words This site offers readers a modern translation of Christ's word, taken from the New Testament and organized by subject for easy reference, in 20 different languages. Select a Verse - From Peerless Rd (Developed by Mel Brook) You can also search for the verse you so desire. Today's Promise from Bill Bright Daily Guideposts Devotionals
Youth Sites Great clip art (not all Christian) can be found at Image Bank More clip art and photos - from Stock X Change For Power Point help. Try Doug Fields Material. (Download "Me Church.")
For free video of "That's
My King." Kids-in-Mind. Instead we assign each film three category-specific, objective ratings on a scale of 0 to 10, according to quantity and context: one for SEX & NUDITY, one for VIOLENCE & GORE and another for PROFANITY. Since we make no recommendations, either critical or age-specific, we enable concerned adults to determine whether a film is appropriate for them.
Find goofs for movies.
Youth Ministry Department at the International Office of the Church of God of Prophecy Zipped Camp Information Files - Here are some of the best files from years of the camping ministry. You must download this file in a subdirectory, unzip it, then access it. This disk contains: logos, boosts, evaluations, song, aims/objectives, evaluations, sample letters, policies, programs, staff information, applications, check lists, registration forms, annual reports, expense sheets, many files from IYC (International Youth Camp), schedules, menu, and much more. Simply create a directory on your hard-drive, same the file to that directory. It is about ½ a meg zipped and expands to over 2 megs of mostly Word Perfect files. Then you adapt them as best suites your needs. Let me know if they are helpful. Great Youth Stuff! Like: Games & Icebreakers, Event Ideas, Topical Curriculum, Movie Illustrations, Logistical Crud, Discipleship Guide and Talks/sermons.
10 Things Your Teen is Reluctant to tell you by Colleen L. Reece BreakPoint with Chuck Colson. Camp Workers Hot Tips for Leaders Campus Strategies Reaching your school for Christ. More ideas, visit - Campus Crusade for Christ Career Clusters - This is a site to help your youth discover their interest to make career decisions. This is a CAREER INTEREST SURVEY. You make decisions that will show where your career interest are. "Center for Parent/Youth Understanding" Good youth resources from Walt Mueller. HappyFunTime is an improvisational and sketch comedy troupe based out of Minneapolis. They have free downloads of some of their sketch videos online. George Barna's Data & Trends with information like: "Americans Describe Their Ideal Church" Lotsa fun games! This is a new site from the folks behind VeggieTales & Penguins. Pastor 2 Youth Here's a great resource with over 800 games for youth and much more.
Topics from Ron Hutchcraft
Christianity Today's Singles Channel Josh Harris Online - author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye Crosswalk.com's singles channel and columns What are your youth watching? Check out Top 25 movies for the week. New York Times Best Seller List Christian Spotlight on the Movies What Focus on the Family says about Current Movies. What Focus on the Family says about Current Music What Focus on the Family says about Current Television Programs. From Billboard Magazine the Top 100 Songs There are more charts to choose. Top 10 Christian Songs Weekly Hit List Reach Out Ministries Barry St. Clair has written many popular books like Penetrating the Campus, The Magnet Effect, Following Jesus, Spending Time Alone with God, Making Jesus Lord, Giving Away Your Faith, and Influencing Your World. Great for youth and youth workers. TeamCE - Select the "Free Preview" for materials. True Love Waits helps youth stay sexually pure. Sexual Abstinence also helps youth stay sexually pure. Urban Youth Workers Resource Directory Listing books, videos, magazines, journals, training conferences, and organizations. Search Youth Specialties Links YMC - Humor, anecdotes, quotes, illustrations, etc. Youth Culture Research and Trends: Youth in Crisis by Walt Mueller has many interesting articles. Youth Ministry links from Pastor's Helper Youth Ministry Resources for ideas, games, youth speakers, and youth ministry training programs YouthPastor.Com Ministry resources, links, games, ministry listings, etc. Youth Specialties All Categories Youth Specialties Update Archive
Youth for Christ, Stories for Youth YWAM (Youth With A Mission) Youth Page, New Life COGOP - Waynesburg, Kentucky
General Facts and Free Stuff!
Bartleby.com books online like: Roget's Thesaurus, Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, Robert's Rules of Order Maps and Aerial Photo Images Online More Maps and Aerial Photo Images Online Create a calendar for your web site Here is another way to create a calendar for your web site.
To have slide shows with your pictures, try ShowMaker. Want to post some pictures on the web? You can do so with Kodak Gallery. Want to add more RAM in your computer? Go to www.pny.com and choose desktop, notebook, etc. model number and it will walk you through what you need to do. Need to determine the value of your computer? At one time, this was free, now it's $9.99 per month. Go to http://www.dialpad.com/ and register. Then start calling. Try these free ones. www.deltathree.com , Let me know if you have more. Use your Cell as the internet connect (network connection) - USB cable
at Futuredial.com Free conversion of your Microsoft Word documents to PDF Free (if you don't mind the water marks). Antique Photograph Web Cards American Greetings Blue Mountain Arts' Hallmark.com Then choose e-cards. "When you care enough to send the very best e-mail." :-) Wowgreetings.com Other Free stuff More Free stuff
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MSN Messenger - Same idea. It's also free. To Make MP3s Encyclopædia Britannica . Great to look up needed items. Learn to Do Anything . At this site, enter what you need help with and they will give you instructions. emailSTRIPPER Let's say you get a great joke in an e-mail. But it has all those ungodly >'s and the lines are all broken. How can you, in good conscience, pass that on to the kids in your group, or your staff as is? So download this very cool, easy-to-use, and FREE utility called emailSTRIPPER. It'll take care of those ugly e-mails and restore their original sheen. Photo Click A little executable file that will allow you to view JPGs as if in a photo album style. Just download it and unzip it. (If you need unzip, go to WinZip.) Then put it in the folder where your pictures are. If the link fails, copy and paste the address and put it in the address line - http://www.geocities.com/hecardin/photoclick.zip Have access to Power Point files but you do not have Power Point? Down load the viewer. It will allow you to access the file. PowerPoint Viewer 97 for PowerPoint 97, 2000, and 2002 Users . TruthOrFiction.com use this to see if something is true or false on the Internet. (No, Procter and Gamble is not sending their profits to Satanism.) Also, check out Snopes.com to see if
it's an Urban Legend. (No, Madalyn Murray O'Hair is not trying to get religious broadcasting banned from American airwaves.
Or "Touched By An Angel.") Want to stop pop-ups that on the top bar it says "Messenger Service?" Then go to Disabling Messenger Service in Windows XP! Works great. Disabling the Messenger Service for other Operating Systems (Win ME, etc.) To get rid of pop-ups, use Ad-Aware, download this free program that works well.
Search Corporate Database by Officer Name How is your health? See your "Real Age" by answering questions. Need to calculate how much heat you may need? Try the BTU Calculator.
Free Worship Software to Download
Free Bibles to Download
Download e-Sword v5.0 [18.2 MB] The Reina Valera Version, 1602 (Spanish) is also available FreeBible from FreeBible.com The Reina Valera Version, 1602 (Spanish) is also available Authorized King James Version (11+ megabytes) Free Bible Study Software - an interactive computer program (which runs on Microsoft Windows 3.1, 95, NT) with over 1000 questions, 46 lessons and nearly 2000 verses. Audio Treasure - the New Testament and Psalms in Mp3 Audio for free download on the Internet.
The Holy Bible King James Version 5.1.9 popular
Try a Free Download of SwordSearcher
or buy the Deluxe CD-ROM for $40. Palm Software
More Palm sites for games, etc.
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Check TigerDirect for some great Palm Deals.
Palm Software for a Treo 600
GTrainer Learn to read standard music notation for guitar. The program shows a music staff and a fretboard and will randomly select notes to play. Click on the fret-board and see if you got it right. Guitar Chords Use Guitar Chords to form hundreds of chords! The simple to use interface allows you to learn some of the most common shapes for the most popular chords. This app is especially great for beginning guitarists who are interested in learning basic fundamentals of chord formation. MANY more Palm Software Options Categories Include: Calculator-Conversion, Calculator-Financial, Calculator-Medical, Calculator-Misc., Calculator-Stand./Sci, Clock/Calendar, Dictionary, Diet/Fitness, Download Tools, Drawing/Graphics, Education, E-Book, E-Mail, Engineering, Fax, Financial, Games-Misc., Games-Action, Games-Adventure, Games-Arcade, Games-Board, Games-Card, Games-Puzzle, Games-RPG, Genealogy, Graphics, Hacks, Image, Infrared Apps, Internet, Medical, Memo, Music, Navigation, News, Novelty, Photography, Religion, Schedule/Travel, Science, Security, Shopping, Sports, Spreadsheet, Stock Management, Synchronization, Time Management, Translation, Up-Linking, Up-Linking-Windows, Utilities, Updates, Weather... And MORE! Think you'd have a hard time letting go of your paper planner (Franklin, etc.), consider the see the PDA vs PAPER comparison. (It's a Word Document.)
Free Email
Web Sites www.geocities.com - http://angelfire.lycos.com/ - http://freeservers.com/ Check the Web Links you've created
Building Church Websites
Do you need to know your IP address? Here's another to find your IP address.
Witnessing with your computer.
(Almost free.) - Big Zoo You create your own phone card for $03.9 a minute. I use it a lot! Need to find people - Try Yahoo
Not free but need a good deal on airfare? Try LastMinute.Com
Pastor's Resources Instructions to fold a Church Flag.
Leadership Network Good leadership material
U.S. Census Bureau - To see your surrounding demographics. Resources for Church Planting. Church Planting Resources Table DYNAMIC CHURCH PLANTING INTERNATIONAL Ethnic Harvest - provides online resources to help North American churches and congregations build and maintain an effective cross-cultural ministry. Find creative ministry ideas, inspiring stories, practical information, a PowerPoint presentation and ethnic-related resources. Access travel tools and free demographics, along with the Bible in 140 languages (online, print and audio). Learn about "Cumbre," a five-year outreach to Hispanic people in North America and much more. Ethnic Harvest's vision is "that a rich variety of language-specific and multi-cultural churches will be developed to effectively serve every ethnic group living in North America." [from Internet for Christians] Church Growth - 7 Laws of 7 - Without them the church dies! from Dr. Owen Weston
Josh Hunt Great web site for pastors to pastors on Church Growth, etc. Good book discussions on Warren, Maxwell, etc. Missiology - Church Planting Five Trends Shaping the 21st Century - Church Planting Baptist - Church Planting
You will also find a description of the different styles. Learning Style Descriptions Learning Styles Evaluation This is a different one. The Parsonage - From Focus on the Family. Also known as www.parsonage.org Neil Chadwick , Sermons, notes, letters, very helpful. Links for Pastors and Church Leaders from Zondervan Publishing House Academic, - Has many other links that are helpful Links for Pastors and Christian Leaders Resources for Pastors / Lay Leaders / Congregations Encouragement for Small Church Ministries Cutting Edge - A Church Planting Newsletter The Online - SPIRITUAL GIFTS INVENTORY Gives you only one answer
Ministry Resources To Help You Discover Your Gifts: The test has 35 questions. Pastor to Pastor (Focus on the Family) "FRIEND DAY" kit - From DR. ELMER TOWNS - Two basic techniques make Friend Day so successful: 1. Each member brings one friend...no need to confront strangers. 2. The organized, easy-to-do follow up provides a personal touch that will bring back visitors...again and again. Proven to double attendance on Friend Day in most churches, more than double in some. Proper follow-up, maintains remains higher than normal attendance afterwards. Includes: planning checklist, follow-up plan lessons and suggested sermons, four audio cassettes with instruction and lessons from How to Reach Your Friends for Christ, and promotional material. Price $99.95; Item Nbr 501; To Order call 1-800-553-GROW (4769); Also, ask about a similar item from "F.R.A.N.TASTIC DAYS" at the same site and number. It's $89.95. Also known as FRAN-gelism.
John Maxwell's Leadership Now.
Clergy Appreciation Month from John Mark Ministries Pastors' Appreciation Month Ideas for Church Members From PastorsWife.com Need mission Stats? Try the CIA Christian Financial Concepts - the late Larry Burkett 10 Things Ministers Wish Everyone Knew by Gail Houston pastors.com - This is Pastor Rick Warren from Saddleback. Most items are offered at a cost that can be purchased online.
Center for Biblical Counseling (American Association of Christian Counselors) Resources for breaking addictions - Freedom
From Addiction - Resources - PDF ChurchStaffing.com is a site that allows you to look at ministry opportunities or make your known to others. They also do a Monday Church help newsletter
To receive pastoral updates from Focus on the Family, just subscribe. You may also call 877 233 4455 Pastoral Care Line 9-4 Mt. M-F For an "Understanding Ear, Gentle Word of Advise, Timely Referral, For Pastoral Families."
Concerning Conflict Management, read Edwin Friedman's Generation to Generation summary CHURCH CONFLICT from the Lutherans (Several Articles on Church conflict) Resources for Resolving Conflict - Dr. Marlin Thomas How to Keep From Getting Hurt in a Church By Dr. Dale A. Robbins Top 10 Predictable Times for Conflict in the Church When is the church more likely to experience conflict? CONFLICT RESOLUTION FOR CHURCHES by Dr. Neil Chadwick The Slippery Slope - Staying on Top of Conflict Biblical Solutions for Ministering to Difficult People Christians Must Learn to Deal With All Types of Difficult People Top Seven Mistakes Church Leaders Make Conflict Resolution Menu - The 4-Quadrant Model |
