July Supporter Update
Dear friends and supporters,
Every quarter, we pause to give you an update on the current and upcoming work of Media Gratiae. As a donor-funded nonprofit ministry, we want to share with you how your support is allowing us to continue the work of sharing the good news of who God is and how every Christian can walk with Him through the common means of grace.
We also want to thank you for your ongoing prayers, encouragement, and support. Each of these are vitally helpful as we continue the work that God has placed in front of us.
We have been busy with several exciting developments this quarter; read more details about each below!
The Whole Counsel
This quarter, we celebrated 400,000 downloads of The Whole Counsel podcast!
Thank you for listening along and giving us the opportunity to declare the whole counsel of God to you.
Living with the True God: Lessons from Judges
We are so excited to finally have Living with the True God: Lessons from Judges in print!
This study is a 7-week look at key passages in the book of Judges that we feel are of particular importance for the modern evangelical church. It includes 7 video sermons in addition to 7 weekly workbook lessons.
We celebrated the arrival and material release of Living with the True God: Lessons from Judges at the beginning of July and are grateful for those who have already begun to work through this new study.
It is our prayer that God would use this study to edify His church, draw His people closer to Himself, and—most of all—bring glory to His great Name.
10 years of behold your God: Rethinking God Biblically
This January, we look forward to celebrating the 10th anniversary of Behold Your God: Rethinking God Biblically and the birth of Media Gratiae. We have several exciting projects underway to mark this occasion!
The first of these will a book containing all 12 sermons of Behold Your God: Rethinking God Biblically in print for the first time! It is our sincere hope that this project will be a more consumable tool for reaching even more people with the opportunity to rethink God biblically. Our team is working now to finish transcribing and editing these sermons so that they can be prepared for print. We hope to have this project in your hands by Christmas! Will you pray that God would be near to us and establish the work of our hands (Psalm 90:17) as we have finalize the details of this project?
In addition to this book of sermons, our Content Producer, Teddy, is editing never-before-seen footage from the Behold Your God: Rethinking God Biblically interviews with Paul Washer, Richard Owen Roberts, Andrew Davies, Anthony Mathenia, Conrad Mbewe, Jordan Thomas, and Eifion Evans to be released on The Whole Counsel podcast.
Behold Your God Around the globe
The Lord has recently blessed us with multiple opportunities for the global translation and distribution of the Behold Your God series.
The Finnish Lutheran Mission has expressed interest in sponsoring the distribution of 20,000 copies of the Russian translation of Behold Your God: Rethinking God Biblically throughout Central Asia. We are currently working together to explore the best methods for completing this distribution.
While a Spanish translation of Behold Your God: Rethinking God Biblically is already available, we are excited for new opportunities to bring this study to Spanish speakers, particularly in South America. We recently began work with a translator named Jorge Rodriguez, who has worked with Heartcry Missionary Society and oversees translation for Legado Bautista Confesional. Jorge will be overseeing the Spanish translation of Behold Your God: The Weight of Majesty and the distribution of the Spanish translations of both Behold Your God: Rethinking God Biblically and Behold Your God: The Weight of Majesty in South America.
Legado Bautista Confesional is a church-funded ministry. If you would like to support this work, visit their Facebook page or website.
Will you be in prayer for the team at Legado Bautista Confesional as they complete this work? Will you pray that the Behold Your God series would be placed in the hands of those who would most benefit from it, and that their souls would be blessed and God’s Name would be glorified through all these things?
MINISTUDIES
After the release of our first mini-study on Judges, we began work on several new projects that will follow the same format. This new line of materials will be comprised of 6-8-week multimedia studies on biblical passages and themes.
John Snyder began filming in mid-July for Christ: Mighty to Save, a new study on the miracles of Christ in Matthew 8-9.
Jordan Thomas, a pastor in Memphis, Tennessee as well as contributor to the Behold Your God series and The Whole Counsel podcast, is writing and preparing to film for a study on the glory of Christ in His church.
Andy Christofides, a semi-retired pastor in Wales, United Kingdom, is preparing to write on the duties of Christian fellowship, with help from John Owen’s book of the same title.
Please pray that as we prepare for all of these things, God would be pleased to give us all that we need both spiritually and financially to see these things come to fruition for His glory and the good of His church.
Behold Your God: Seeking Him Early
We are continuing work on Behold Your God: Seeking Him Early. In this project, we have taken the main concepts and teachings of Behold Your God: Rethinking God Biblically and Behold Your God: The Weight of Majesty and turned them into a curriculum that can be taught to children in a Sunday school or homeschool setting.
We have completed writing, editing, and artwork for this project and are in the process of preparing it for print. The third of the three levels is nearing the end of the typesetting and design process.
Will you pray with us that the Lord would give us wisdom and provide for us as we complete this project? Will you pray that He would help us tell of His glory to the next generation?
a week with Jeremy Walker
Jeremy Walker, pastor of Maidenbower Baptist Church in Crawley, England and creator of the From the Heart of Spurgeon and A Word in Season podcasts will be visiting and preaching at our home church.
We will be filming his teaching at a weekend men’s retreat and releasing these sessions on The Whole Counsel podcast. Jeremy will also be filming with us for a podcast series on the mortification of sin.
We look forward to sharing what the Lord lays on Jeremy’s heart with you!
“I desire to preach as I ought, and live as I preach.”
John Newton
A word to our supporters
“Media Gratiae is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, which means that we rely on the support of donors to continue the ongoing work.
Thank you for your prayers, encouragement, and support, all of which are a vital to the work of Media Gratiae.
Please do pray that God would continue to guide us, uphold us, and glorify His Name through us in the days ahead. He alone is worthy. ”