Would you like to lead your co-workers into the Bible, but do not know how to do it? Or would you like to let them listen through some key passages of the Bible that you later can discuss together?

If you answer yes to any of these questions, the Discover App may be a good tool for you. Using the Discovery bible study method, the app takes its users on a journey through central passages from creation to Christ.

Discovery Bible Studies (DBS) focus on the Bible texts and trusts that all people, through the Holy Spirit, can understand what the texts say and thus get a relationship to Jesus. For a long time, this study method has been a powerful tool in bringing people from different cultural backgrounds to Christ.

The killing of one of Iran’s top leaders by US forces may cause a “tsunami” of problems for Christians in Iran. The turmoil may also create new opportunities for sharing the gospel, believes one of the most influential leaders among Iranian Christians.

“Christians in Iran react with uncertainty and anxiety to the liquidation of Iran’s military leader Qassem Soleimani. In case of escalation of hostilities and engagement in war, Iranian Christians will suffer more than any other segment of society,” says Lazarus Yeghnazar in an interview with Christianity Today. 

Literature on sex and gender seems to be more interesting than books on mission. 

Christianity Today has revealed which book reviews got the most readers in 2019. On top of the list appears Nadia Bolz-Weber with the book Shameless: A Sexual Reformation followed by Mark A. Yarhouse’s Costly Obedience: What We Can Learn from the Celibate Gay Christian Community. 

2019 has become a new record year for Global Intent’s and Tent International’s GO Equipped courses. The steepest growth is now coming in the Spanish speaking world.

More than 400 participants from a vast number of nations have taken the GO Equipped course in 2019. This is up more than 50 percent from the 262 participants last year, which also was a record year. 

In 2019 courses have been held in Liberia, Nigeria, US, Cuba, Costa Rica, Norway, India and Brazil. In 2020 there will be courses in South Africa, Niger and Germany as well. 

Spanish speaking pioneers

Cuba and Costa Rica had their first-ever GO Equipped courses in 2019 and the turn-out indicates a bright GO Equipped-future in the Spanish speaking world.