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WELCOME TO THE DISCIPLE MACHINE — START SHARING THE GOOD NEWS!
Welcome! I’m BigAddison, your TDM Host. We’re here to help you share the Gospel of Jesus Christ through a free webpage, practical training, and a community ready to help. FIRST: SAY HELLO! Introduce yourself in a comment below. Tell us what you’d like us to call you and a little about yourself—we’d like to meet you! 🌎 READY FOR YOUR FREE GOSPEL WEBPAGE? Open 👉 START HERE — Get Your Free Gospel Webpage for examples and simple instructions. Prefer personal help? Send me a private message. You don’t need to complete any courses to get your free webpage. 1️⃣ NEXT: CHOOSE YOUR GOSPEL-SHARING PAGE YOUR PERSONAL PAGE: Get a free Good News of the Gospel webpage with your own unique link and personalized featured section. When you’re ready, send me a private message with the details listed below. 👀 SEE WHAT YOUR FREE PAGE CAN LOOK LIKE Take a look at these live examples from two of our members: Already Gone: https://thegoodnewsofthegospel.org/Alreadygone.htm Set Free By Grace: https://www.thegoodnewsofthegospel.org/setfreebygrace.htm Same Gospel message, each with its own personalized featured section and unique link. Yours is FREE, too! OR YOU CAN START SHARING THE GOSPEL NOW: Use our main page immediately: https://www.thegoodnewsofthegospel.org/ 2️⃣ WANT YOUR OWN PAGE? SEND ME A PRIVATE MESSAGE Tell me the name you want featured—your name, ministry, organization, or chosen outreach name. You can also include: • A short introduction or message. • A photo or logo. • A website or resource you’d like your featured section to link to. Don’t have those things ready? Tell me what you have, and we’ll work through it together. You don’t need your own website or technical skills. Your page is free. Being featured as a “sponsor” requires no payment. Financial support is always welcome, but never required..
3 likes • Sep 16
Hello everyone, I’m Josephat from Kenya, and I’m grateful to be part of The Disciple Machine. I’m here first and foremost to learn, grow, and become a more faithful disciple of Jesus Christ. I believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ must remain simple, central, and above everything else. I’m looking forward to learning from the teachings shared here and engaging in meaningful conversations with fellow disciples. My desire is to grow from hearing the Word, to believing it, obeying it, and sharing the Good News with others. I appreciate the encouragement to participate rather than simply observe, and I’m ready to learn and contribute in that spirit. God bless everyone here as we seek to answer Christ’s call to go and make disciples. 🙏🏽
1 like • Sep 23
@Addison Bachman Amen Amen and Amen.
Standing Together in the Warfare of Faith - Part 2
The Gift of a Comrade in Arms by Pastor Joseph Cortes There is something about hardship that reveals the value of fellowship. When everything is going well, it is easy to believe we are stronger than we really are. It is easy to imagine that we do not need anyone else. But the battlefield has a way of exposing that illusion. When men and women endure war together, bonds develop that cannot easily be explained to those who have never experienced it. Shared danger strips away appearances. Hardship exposes what is real. The person standing beside you in the darkness becomes more than an acquaintance. He becomes a fellow soldier. One powerful illustration of this came during World War II through the story of the four chaplains. These men came from different religious backgrounds, yet they were united by service, compassion, and extraordinary courage. They had met during chaplaincy training and later found themselves aboard a U.S. Army transport ship carrying hundreds of soldiers through dangerous waters. The threat was very real. German submarines were attacking Allied ships, and everyone aboard understood that the journey could cost them their lives. These soldiers needed more than military instructions. They needed courage, comfort, and hope. Then, in the darkness of the early morning, the ship was struck by a torpedo. Chaos erupted. Men were wounded. Others were terrified. The ship began sinking. In that moment, the four chaplains could have thought only about their own survival. Instead, they moved toward the need. They comforted frightened soldiers, helped the wounded, directed men toward safety, and distributed life jackets. When the supply of life jackets was exhausted, the chaplains removed their own and gave them to others. They chose to save others at the cost of their own lives. As the ship disappeared beneath the water, survivors reported seeing the four men standing together, linked arm in arm, facing eternity together.
Standing Together in the Warfare of Faith - Part 2
2 likes • Sep 22
This message cuts straight to something many of us only learn the hard way: isolation is a luxury the battlefield does not afford. The story of the four chaplains is not sentimental history—it is a living parable of what true Christian fellowship looks like when the ship is going down. Linked arms, self-giving, quiet courage in the face of certain loss. That picture is powerful and needed. I affirm the central truth: spiritual warfare is not a solo performance. Pride loves to dress itself in the uniform of independence, but the New Testament will not let us stay there. Paul’s letters are filled with “fellow soldiers,” “fellow laborers,” and urgent requests for prayer. Even the strongest apostle needed the body. Hardship does strip away illusions, and in those moments the value of a true comrade becomes unmistakable. Yet the challenge remains. It is one thing to admire the chaplains’ linked arms; it is another to actually become the kind of person others can link arms with when the torpedo hits. Many of us still prefer the safety of surface-level fellowship—encouragement when things are easy, distance when things get messy. We want comrades for ourselves while remaining reluctant to pay the cost of being one. The study rightly warns against lone-ranger pride, but it also quietly asks whether we are willing to give away our own “life jackets”—time, emotional energy, honest prayer, and presence—when another believer is sinking. So the question this part leaves us with is practical and searching: When the next unexpected hit comes—discouragement, betrayal, heavy ministry, or silent fear—will we be found standing alone, or will someone be able to look over and find us already linked arm in arm, ready to give rather than merely receive?
When Was Jesus Born?
There are moments in Scripture when God gives us more than a simple historical event. He gives us patterns, signs, prophetic shadows, and details that invite us to look deeper. The birth of Jesus Christ is one of these moments. https://jesusmaga.com/when-was-jesus-born/
When Was Jesus Born?
3 likes • Sep 18
This is a beautiful and well-reasoned piece. What I appreciate most is that you don't treat the birth of Christ as just a date on a calendar, but as a divinely appointed moment - in the fulness of the time (Galatians 4:4). Your cumulative approach is what makes it compelling. Taken alone, Herod's death in 1 BC, Zacharias' course of Abia, the shepherds abiding in the fields by night, Jesus being "about thirty" in the 15th year of Tiberius, and the Revelation 12 sign might each seem like a small clue. But when you lay them side-by-side, a clear pattern emerges. The connection you draw between September 11, 3 BC / Tishri 1, the Feast of Trumpets and Revelation 12:1-5 is especially powerful. A woman clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet - Virgo with the sun in her and the moon at her feet - and that being the Day of Trumpets when the King enters the world quietly while heaven is blowing trumpets? That is profound. You are right to end where you did. The fascination should never stop at chronology or astronomy. Whether one holds to December 25th as tradition or September as this reconstruction suggests, the heart of it remains: The world saw a child. Heaven saw the King. The Creator entered His creation, not with Rome's fanfare, but announced to shepherds. The date invites us to look deeper, but the Person is what transforms us. Thank you for bringing Scripture, history, and the heavens together so reverently. Jesus Christ came. Exactly when the Father appointed, exactly as the prophets promised.
What Does It Take to Be a Christian? Part 4
Have You Trusted Christ? by Pastor Joseph Cortes Paul summarized his preaching beautifully in I Corinthians 2:1-5: “And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.” Paul was not depending upon intellectual credentials, polished presentation, human philosophy, or impressive speech. He says, “And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.” That is exactly where faith must stand. Not in a preacher. Not in a denomination. Not in a theologian. Not in a religious system. Not even in your ability to understand everything perfectly. Your faith must stand in God and in what Jesus Christ accomplished for you. Paul preached “Jesus Christ, and him crucified.” He pointed sinners toward a crucified Savior because that is where our redemption was accomplished. Jesus did not come merely to become a moral example. He did not come merely to become a great teacher. He came to save sinners. That required the Cross. That required His sacrifice. That required His blood. This is what so much preaching is missing today. We need more preachers willing to say plainly that Salvation is not found in man's performance. It is found in Jesus Christ. The Gospel must be made so clear that even the simplest sinner can understand it: stop trusting yourself and trust Christ. A change of mind takes place. Maybe you once believed being good would save you. Change your mind. Maybe you thought religion would save you. Change your mind. Maybe you thought baptism would save you. Change your mind. Maybe you thought church membership would save you. Change your mind. Maybe you thought turning over a new leaf would save you. Change your mind. Maybe you thought keeping commandments would save you. Change your mind. Maybe you thought God would weigh your good deeds against your bad deeds. Change your mind. Turn your confidence away from yourself and place it upon Jesus Christ and His finished work. That is the heart of biblical repentance: a change of mind that brings us from unbelief to faith in Christ.
What Does It Take to Be a Christian? Part 4
5 likes • Sep 18
This message is a powerful reminder that authentic faith rests strictly on the simple truth of the Gospel rather than human eloquence or self-reliance. Focusing entirely on Jesus Christ brings true liberation from performance and grounds everything in His finished work.
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