I’d like to start by apologising to anyone that came across posts on this site with adverts for ring tones. If you thought they looked like spam then you were correct, my website was hacked by some sneaky people.
Thankfully I caught it relatively quickly and am in the process of improving the security of the website. There haven’t been any more successful attacks in the last few days so I think my initial steps are working. The damage to the website was minimal and has been rectified, and as far as I can tell no-one clicked through to purchase the overpriced ringtones.
On a lighter note free Christian resources was recently reviewed by Frank Carr, who writes a blog called OpTempo. If you are interested in blogging then this site is worth checking out. He is also currently offering to do free reviews of websites so if you fancy having your website given the once over then pop over to his site and leave your details. I found it a really useful exercise and have implemented (or am about to implement) most of the suggested changes. It was a positive review and it is really good to get an impartial view from a third party.
I have linked to Tim Challies’ blog a few times in the past, so it is fitting to recommend his blog. If you have a passion for Christian books, then this blog is the blog for you. A large part of Challies.com comprises book reviews and comments, or other literature related topics (e.g. his recent post “Reading better with Richard Baxter”).
Tim’s book reviews are both concise and clear. He doesn’t fall in to the trap of many reviewers by writing a mini-book in itself for a review! Also, his writing style is good, and more importantly he seems a thoroughly grounded Christian.
If you want to know more about Tim, he gives the following quote about himself in the biography of on of his books: CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE
Newfrontiers is a worldwide family of churches numbering around 500 churches in over 40 nations around the world. In fact the church I attend is a member of Newfrontiers, and having only been a member of one church it is obviously a group of churches that I love. The mission of Newfrontiers is as follows:
“With a passionate commitment to build the church according to New Testament principles, we believe that the most effective form of evangelism is worked out from strong local churches.”
Just a couple of week ago there was the annual “leaders” training in Brighton (UK) which I was fortunate enough to attend some of. This is leaders in a broad sense, so for instance it would include small group leaders and worship leaders. It is certainly not just for the actual top dogs in the churches. Because it is a global church many people obviously cannot attend, and therefore all of the sermons are made available on the internet. There is a few other bits and bobs on the website as well:
After a chance encounter in a friend’s bathroom I realised that actually, you can get The Word for Today from different countries. In my initial review I said it was only available in hard copy in the UK. I won’t go into why she got the New Zealand version despite living in London as it is not that interesting a story!
The Word for Today is available in all of the following places:
- Australia
- Canada
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Ireland
- New Zealand
- Philippines
- U.K.
- U.S.A.

Fed up trying to find good quality free worship songs… that are legal? Hopefully this website will go some way to satisfying you.
Quality music with a little extra thrown in for free!
I recently reviewed the Desiring God website, but since then they’ve added yet more content! They have now created two YouTube accounts and are beginning to post short clips. As it is new, there is not loads of videos to look at, however I was impressed by the quality. You can see one of the videos below:
The two accounts they have set up are ‘Desiring God Conferences’ and ‘Desiring God Don’t Waste Your Life’. The first is focused on an upcoming conference, whilst the second will be updated every week or other week and have small gospel based videos to help you not waste your life!
All in all, it is a delicious little add-on!
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Also, when the window is open, it gives a link for a study on that passage, and studies on the key topics of any passage.
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