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TGOC ANNOUNCES
NEWLY REVISED
"TOPICAL SERIES"
OF LESSONS
As many of you who regularly visit our Website are aware, for the past several months we have been in the process of revising various sections of the site. Several weeks ago, for example, we posted completely new lessons in our Truth Series.
Now we are pleased to be able to announce the availability of the first lessons in our newly revised Topical Series, which James Gravelle just recently completed filming. Here are the titles that eventually will compose the new series:
Morals in an Immoral World
Sin and its Consequences
The Plan of Salvation
The Use of Miracles in the Bible
Combating Satan
The Distinctive Nature of the Church [Part 1]
The Distinctive Nature of the Church [Part 2]
TGOC ANNOUNCES
THE NEWEST ADDITION
TO ITS WEBSITE—
BIBLE CROSSWORD PUZZLES!
As various and sundry school teachers through the years valiantly struggled to impress upon us, learning doesn't have to be boring; it can be fun! OK. Finally we get it! While for some of us there are undoubtedly certain subjects that will never be "fun" to learn (trigonometry and botany spring immediately to mind!), surely it is safe to say that God's Word won't ever be included among such subjects. Surely, two of the nice things about spending a lifetime engaged in a study of the Bible is that there are always new things to learn, and there are always new ways to learn them.
When Paul told his young protégé Timothy, "Study to show yourself approved unto God..." (2 Tim. 2:15), the apostle gave Timothy a command that was generic in nature, not specific. That is to say, Paul told Timothy that, yes, he did need to study. But he left it up to Timothy as to how he went about doing that study. We today have the same freedom to choose a variety of means by which we can study God's Word.
We can, for example, simply read and digest the text. We can listen to sermons, classroom lectures, or audio recordings. We can view instruction on the Web or via DVD. We can do worksheets. We can take quizzes. Or, we can even....do crossword puzzles!
Interestingly, up until now each of the methods of learning mentioned in the above paragraph has been readily available here at the GOSPEL OF CHRIST Website—except one: crossword puzzles. We are happy to announce, however, that we now have created a new section on our Website that is devoted to learning God's Word via crossword puzzles (proving once and for all what our teachers tried so diligently to drill into us—learning really can be fun!).
Our new crossword puzzles are interactive, which means that you can work them online right from your computer. Plus, each puzzle also will be available as a PDF for those people who want to print the puzzles and use them in settings such as classrooms, jail and prison ministries, camps, etc. Additionally, our plans are to produce the puzzles according to a variety of difficulty levels—so that visitors to our Website will be able to find a study level that suits them personally. [And, to answer the obvious question, yes, there is a way for you to get the answers to questions you can't seem to answer on your own; after all, we don't want you to leave our Website frustrated!]
We will be adding new crosswords frequently, so be sure to return to our Website often to see what's new. While we will not be mentioning in our bi-weekly newsletter each new crossword puzzle that we add, we will be providing a link in the right-hand section of each newsletter so that readers can easily access the crossword-puzzle page on our Website to check for new additions. [If you are not currently receiving our electronic newsletter, be sure to sign up via our Website.]
We hope you enjoy this new addition to our site, and that you can use the crossword puzzles to not only increase your own knowledge of God's Word, but to also teach others as well. As always, our goal at THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST is "to take the whole Gospel to the whole world"—even if we have to use a crossword puzzle to do it! We invite you to join us in this Bible-based goal. Along the way, if we can be of any assistance, feel free to call on us. We are here to serve.
WOW!
TAKE A LOOK AT
OUR 2007 STATS!
Now that 2007 is history, we would like to share with visitors to our Website some rather intriguing year-end statistics. By the time that December 31, 2007 had come to an end, our Website had received more than 3,518,934 page-hits (an average of 293,245 per month!). The 2007 figure was more than double the number of page-hits we had in 2006 (1,627,081). Of equal interest is the fact that the 2007 figure represented visitors from 141 different countries. We also learned from a year-end review of our 2007 statistics that visitors to our site are staying longer and doing more while on the site.
In 2005, the bandwidth downloaded from our Website was a "mere" 65 gigabytes. In 2006, it climbed to 407 gigabytes. But in 2007, it was 832 gigabytes! Plus, in 2005 we received 322 free-media requests (for CDs and DVDs) through the Website. In 2006 we received 1667. And in 2007 we received 2,515. During the twelve months of 2007, we shipped those free media to 49 states in America, and to 35 different nations around the globe.
Needless to say, we are overjoyed at these results-which is why we wanted to share them with you. With each passing day we are working ever more diligently to carry out our goal of "taking the whole Gospel to the whole world." Join us in this task, won't you, by sharing the news about our work (and our Website) with neighbors, family members, or friends. We certainly would appreciate it. And, we believe, so would they.
