We’ve all been there. We want to share Jesus with others but can’t get the words out of our mouth or make an impact when we do. But there’s no need to stay stuck. With easy-to-digest insights, the Reach Blog will help you share Jesus more freely and in a way that makes people lean in.
John Hopper - Studying the Bible can be mystifying. Who are all these characters? Is everything I’m reading supposed to be connected? Why all the strange images and stories? And what am I supposed to take away from it all? If this is how you feel, you aren’t alone. Most people struggle...
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John Hopper - Perhaps the greatest deterrent to people coming to faith in Jesus is the simple yet persistent thought: “I am a good person.” I’ve heard this again and again while building friendships and talking with people about spiritual matters. People of every background and life...
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Rick Mumford - One day, Jesus was in a bustling crowd, on His way to save the life of a twelve-year-old girl. In the midst of the chaotic scene, a desperate woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years pushed through the crowd to touch Jesus’ cloak, believing she would be...
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Don Barkley - “Don, am I really bad enough to deserve hell?” “It’s not just you. It’s everyone. To ask if I am bad enough to deserve hell is like asking if I am not strong enough to jump the Grand Canyon.” “I don’t understand.” “Okay. I know I don’t measure up to my own standard...
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John Hopper - Charles Blondin, the French tightrope walker, successfully crossed Niagara Falls several times in the late 1850s—no small feat, considering the rope spanned 1,100 feet and hung 160 feet above the raging waters.It is reported that on one occasion, Blondin pushed a...
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Tucker Morrow— I vividly remember the first recess at my new elementary school in third grade. I’d recently changed schools and felt like an outsider walking on the playground. I tried to jump into the games that other kids were playing, but I wasn’t having much luck. That’s when I...
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Dave Wilson and John Hopper—You have a friend who doesn’t believe in God. You want him to change his mind.You have a sister who thinks Jesus was nothing more than a moral teacher. You want her to think differently.You have co-workers who think the Bible is simply a book of myths. You...
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Dave Wilson and John Hopper—If you’re like us, you want to meet people where they are in their spiritual journey and help them take the next step toward God. But how do we do that when people have ideas that are in direct opposition to what Scripture has to say?In football (either the...
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Don Barkley—Don, did Jesus really say that He was the only way, and that there’s no other way to God?Yes. He said He was the way, the truth, and the life, and that no one comes to the Father except through Him. Jesus even called Himself the door that we have go through to get to God.How...
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John Hopper—I’m glad you asked.Yes, Aristotle was a philosopher, but he was also an observer of life, including how people are persuaded to think or act in ways they may not have arrived at on their own. In his classic work Rhetoric, Aristotle explained that a person’s ability to...
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Mary Jo Sharp—Apologetics isn’t just about having the right answers; it’s about hearing the story behind the questions. I watched this play out at an apologetics summer camp when a high school student asked an apologist: “How does the Kalam Cosmological Argument affect your spiritual...
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John Hopper — It’s not always easy to start up meaningful conversations. Having a few questions to ask about people’s past, present, and future can help get you there. Furthermore, if you listen well to the answers people give, you often will uncover the hopes, joys, fears, motivations,...
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