News September 12, 2024
News from Good News Ministries:
- New book: Knowing God’s Will and Doing It Well
- This week’s recommended video: Decoding Your Deeper Goodness
- Plus great links to great content!
New book!
Knowing God’s Will and Doing It Well
How do you know what God’s will is for your life? Do you know your calling? God has gifted you and has a desire to use your experiences and skills to help make the world a better place and to advance the purposes of his kingdom. Whether it’s in ministry or a secular job, God has a divine plan for you!
Knowing God’s Will and Doing It Well has been our most popular ebook. It’s a compilation of 20 thought-provoking reflections from my daily Good News Reflections. Readers use it for meditation, spiritual guidance, and inspiration. For the icing on the cake, the book includes 3 self-assessment tests to help you figure out which particular ministries God has gifted you to do.
Due to its popularity, my publisher (En Route Catholic Media and Books), is producing it in paperback and Kindle. To push it ahead of other books that are in their queue, please complete the very short survey @ gnm.org/terry-modica-author/knowing-gods-will-and-doing-it-well. This does not obligate you to a purchase, but it will make sure that you are notified when the new book is published.
The paperback will be full color 4 x 6 book (72 pages) — part of our new pocket series that will include other titles from my collection of ebooks.
To see a list of all my books in every format, please visit gnm.org/books-by-terry-modica. Thank you! How may I serve you?
This week’s recommended video:
Decoding Your Deeper Goodness
Let’s take a look at a scripture that is confusing for many people, or misleading, or troublesome: the story of the rich young man. Matthew 19, starting with verse16.
Someone approached Jesus and said, Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life.” Jesus answered him (and here’s the first of the puzzles that we need to decode), “Why do you ask me about the good? There is only one who is good.”
I’ve always wondered, is that an insult? Is Jesus saying that everything you think is goodness in you isn’t really good? Is he saying, “How do you know I’m good? How do you know I’m God?” I mean, there’s the implication in there that Jesus is challenging him to look at him as more than just a teacher but as the divine God himself, the Messiah.
In this video, which is one of my first videos, recorded in 2010, we use the dialog between Jesus and the rich young man in Matthew 19 to decode the goodness that’s within you! This scripture about the rich young man isn’t really about giving up all our possessions. Find out what Jesus is really saying!
Visit gnm-media.org/decoding-your-deeper-goodness.
Good News Prayer Room:
Use our collection of Catholic prayers designed with your needs in mind. They will give you hope and a stronger connection to God’s love and support. What do you need prayers for today?
Visit gnm.org/prayers.
Post your prayer requests @ gnm.org/post-a-prayer.
Good News WordBytes:
WANT MORE FAITH and HOPE in TROUBLED TIMES? WE’RE HERE for YOU! Choose from a variety of topics on our website of Catholic Faith-building articles. What do you need today?
Visit wordbytes.org.
God bless you!
Every morning, I lift up in prayer everyone who helps Good News Ministries in any way (donors, volunteers, prayer supporters, etc.) and all the prayer requests posted on our site. What can I cover in prayer for you? Post your prayer request.
How else can the team and I serve you today? Visit our homepage.
Thank you for reading this newsletter.
Your servant in Christ,
Terry Modica, Executive Director
Good News Ministries
gnm.org
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