Teleios Press

28/10/2024

Best sermon ever?

God can get done whatever He wants to get done in this world. But it is undeniable that our hands and feet are frequently integral to His purposes.

30/09/2024

Ahem!

"When we entered the Promised Land under Joshua, we found a multicultural paradise, a beautiful values mosaic. And we proceeded to destroy it. We could have been tolerant. We could have said, ‘These Canaanites, sure they sacrifice their children to idols, engage in ritual prostitution, so****ze little boys – but, hey, that’s their lifestyle, their choice. We may not understand them, but we must respect them.'

"We didn’t. We smashed their temples, stopped their sacrifices, overturned their idols, and established a hegemony of our values. Jews faithful to the mandate of heaven have been fighting a culture war for the past thirty-three hundred years – ever since a group of nomadic shepherds stepped out of the desert and onto the stage of history and started something that came to be known as Western civilization." (Don Feder, Who's Afraid of the Religious Right)

17/09/2024

"I definitely went [back to church] for all the wrong reasons.

"I really went because this is hard and this hurts, and in all the midlife unraveling books they say 'go back to church, that's what everybody does.' So I went back to church thinking that it would be like an epidural, like it would take the pain away...you know, the church would make the pain go away.

"And then [I discovered that] faith and church was not like an epidural at all; it was like a midwife who just stood next to me and said, 'Push! It's supposed to hurt.'" ("Brené Brown on Church as Midwife," In the Meantime - 4-11-14)

16/09/2024

"Some will suggest that a Christian sexual ethic puts the churches on the 'wrong side of history.' Well, we’ve been on the wrong side of history since a.d. 33.

"The 'right side of history' was the Eternal City of Rome.

"And then the right side of history was the French Revolution.

"And then the right side of history was scientific naturalism and state socialism.

"And yet, there stands Jesus still, on the wrong side of history but at the right hand of the Father." (Russell Moo

15/09/2024

Karl Menninger built the internationally renowned Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. He built a career around providing psychiatric care for troubled patients.

Once, Menninger gave a lecture on mental health and answered questions from the audience. One person lobbed him a softball, “What would you advise a person to do,” they asked, “if they felt a nervous breakdown coming on?”

See a psychiatrist, right?

Dr. Menninger caught everyone off guard. “Lock up your house, go across the railway tracks, find someone in need, and then do something to help that person.”

13/09/2024

The one place where Paul couldn't plant a church is where "All...who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas." (Acts 17:21)

Is there a better description of American evangelicals with our Christian TV, radio stations, publishing, seminaries, colleges, preaching and top-shelf Bible studies?

Remember - if you make disciples by sitting around and talking, don't be surprised if your disciples sit around...and talk.

12/09/2024

Not for honor, not for money...

September 12, 1771: Twenty-six year old Methodist missionary Francis Asbury, writes in his journal as he sails to America: “Whither am I going? To the New World. What to do? To gain honor? No, if I know my own heart. To get money? No, I am going to live to God, and to bring others to do so.”

27/05/2023

Expand your understanding of biblical teaching, deepen your theological knowledge, and increase your capacity for faithful ministry.
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As American culture has embraced a wide variety of sexual expressions, some in the church have followed suit and affirmed a broken and false view of human sexuality. Thankfully, the Bible provides clear and compelling teaching about human sexuality. And this is the position that the Church of the...

02/12/2022

"Teleios" is a Greek word meaning "mature, complete, perfect." Teleios Press wants to put books in print that help Christians to come, by His grace, to a more mature, complete and perfect faith.

29/11/2022

The premise of this book is that, if Christian families across the world discipled their children after the example of Christ, we could expect our children to have world-changing impact.

Discipleship at its core is whispering into our children’s lives for the glory of God and the salvation of the nations. The Great Commission starts in our families.

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"Teleios" is a Greek word meaning "mature, complete, perfect." Teleios Press wants to put books in print that help Christians to come, by His grace, to a more mature, complete and perfect faith.

29/11/2022

The Scriptures literally speak to us to invite us into a deeper relationship with God and a life of active service of mercy to those in need around us. This book helps build small groups which do exactly that. Buy it for yourself or gift it to others. Available at:

"Teleios" is a Greek word meaning "mature, complete, perfect." Teleios Press wants to put books in print that help Christians to come, by His grace, to a more mature, complete and perfect faith.