Baptism: A New Beginning

Grab your walking stick and follow Pastor Doug on a fascinating journey up the Mount of Transfiguration. You’ll discover brand-new insights and biblical truths from this often neglected but pivotal story featuring the Bible’s greatest characters.

Every Christian’s hope is the return of our Lord, but many are becoming discouraged in their walk as He tarries. Pastor Doug offers a candid and inspiring look at finding new meaning in patient endurance. Be refreshed and energized to reach the finish line with confidence.

Few things are more important to Christian peace than understanding and dealing biblically with guilt. Pastor Doug explores this important facet of faith causing many Christians unnecessary pain. It’s a life-transforming journey that will set you free from unbearable regret to draw you closer to Jesus.

Let's face it: It's hard to go for an hour without some temptation urging us to walk away from Jesus. Pastor Doug offers some solid, biblical advice for overcoming the perils that threaten your relationship with the Father. He shows that by following Jesus’ example, our lives can be filled with victory!

Pastor Doug shares his deep, personal affection for mothers and his utmost respect for their special role in God’s creation. A heart-warming, intimate look at mothers past and present, with some special advice and encouragement too.

The final words of a person’s life always command our respect—but none greater than our Savior’s. Pastor Doug’s stirring account of Jesus’ final words on the cross will touch your heart.

Our Hope for a Hemisphere team has returned from the dynamic satellite series! Don't pass up this thrilling report that will touch your heart with the wonders of God’s great miracles in Africa, where thousands have been baptized by a powerful moving of the Holy Spirit.

Getting through the time of trouble is a growing concern for many Christians. Using amazing stories from the Bible, Pastor Doug shows how by leaning on God's promises we can put all fears to rest.

Doug Batchelor explores the keys to achieving inner peace in a world full of turmoil. Find out what the Bible says about false peace and how to find the peace that surpasses understanding.

Amazing Facts' evangelistic outreach to Africa has officially begun! In March, graduates from our Center of Evangelism and Amazing Facts' staff arrived in the capital of Ghana to conduct 27 evangelistic meetings. We praise God for the 2,000 newly baptized members, but this is only the humble first fruit of a more far-reaching work to be done!

The average American family is drowning in debt. It would be wonderful to believe that Christians were immune from operating their budgets in the red. Unfortunately, surveys indicate that we are in as much trouble as anyone else. In this article, you'll discover how to find freedom from debt in a biblical way.

Worship is a central theme in the Bible, but Christians seem to be forgetting the holiness of the Lord when they enter into His holy temple. Pastor Doug explains why it's important to exhibit reverence during worship and demonstrate a sense of awe and respect for God and His greatness.

For many Christians, God is a great big policeman up in the sky, watching and waiting to see them doing something wrong so He can punish you. But Pastor Doug shows that God is really so much more than this and that He came to give us abundant life. Learn to see God how He really is.

Throughout civilization, humanity has longed for a better world. Undeniably, nurturing visions of utopia appear to be a powerful, instinctive desire within us. We are all in search of a better place, a world where there is unity and harmony. Learn how to find that place in this eye-opening article!

An Amazing Fact: Tests show that after drinking three bottles of beer, there is an average of 13 percent net memory loss. After taking only small quantities of alcohol, trained typists were tested and their errors increased 40 percent.

An Amazing Fact: Wind shear is a sudden change in the speed or the direction of the wind over a very short distance that can create a hazard to flying aircraft. The strong downward winds associated with wind shear abruptly push down on an aircraft, reducing both it's speed and the lift generated by the wings. A pilot encountering wind shear must make quick adjustments to compensate for the loss of lift.

A multi-faceted evangelistic effort throughout the Philippine Islands netted glorious results, with 10,774 individuals baptized in just two months. The first phase of the program began with thousands of Filipino Christians studying Amazing Facts Bible lessons with their friends and neighbors.

If a lamb is in the habit of wandering far away from the fold, where it could nibble on poisonous weeds or encounter wild dogs, a shepherd might be forced to take drastic measures to save his wayward sheep. In many countries the wise shepherd would, with his own hands, break one of the ...

Monkey trappers in North Africa have a clever method of catching their prey. They fill a number of gourds with nuts and chain them firmly to a tree. Each has a hole just large enough to allow an unsuspecting monkey to stick his hand inside the hollowed-out gourd. When the hungry animal discovers this hole and the treasure waiting inside, he quickly ...

The nation was shocked by a tragedy in late March 1997 when 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult took their own lives. The cult members committed suicide by downing fatal doses of a lethal cocktail mixture of phenobarbital and vodka. Heaven's Gate members sincerely believed that Hale-Bopp, an unusually bright comet, was a sign that they were supposed to leave their earthly bodies ...

Did you know that the longest list of questions found in the Bible is made up of questions asked by God? In Job chapters 38 and 39, God poses query after query to His servant Job, who has daily begged for answers to some tough, heart-wrenching questions of his own.

The U.S. Commerce Department says about 4 million people are caught shoplifting each year, but for every person caught, an estimated 35 go undetected. If these statistics are accurate, it means that 140 million shoplifting incidents occur each year in a nation of 260 million people.

A woman who had just returned from a trip to Mexico frantically called the Los Angeles Police Department to report that a live rattlesnake had been placed in her overnight bag. Police went rushing to the scene with sirens screaming. They slowly approached the menacing bag, which the woman had heaved out of a window onto the sidewalk. Cautiously they scattered the contents of the bag-only to trace the rattling sound to ...

Most people associate the book of Ezekiel with one of two things: God's chariot with the "wheel in the middle of a wheel," or the dry bones that come back to life. Both of these visions have inspired several lively songs, but rarely are they the subject of practical or serious Bible study.

The coconut tree is sometimes called the tree of life because of its amazing versatility. My father, who was a World War II pilot, says that when planes went down in the Pacific Islands, the stranded pilots sometimes survived for many months on little more than coconuts.

While under the influence of a light hypnotic trance, a man who submitted to a scientific hypnosis experiment was ordered to pick up a glass from the table. Although he was a strong, athletic type, the man could not budge the glass from its position. His most strenuous exertions could not lift the glass that was light enough for any child to remove.

It is estimated that between 30,000 and 40,000 people die from snakebites each year, 75 percent of whom live in densely populated India. The most deadly snakes in India are the cobra, Russell's viper, saw-scaled cobra, Indian krait, and Ceylon krait.

The Sun is a fantastically hot cosmic-radiation powerhouse, with a surface temperature of about 11,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Its interior temperature is estimated as high as 18 million degrees Fahrenheit. The pressure at the center of the sun is about 700 million tons per square inch.

Gordius was a Greek peasant who became king of Phrygia simply because he was the first man to drive into town after an oracle had commanded his countrymen to 'select as ruler the first person who would drive into the public square in a wagon.' In gratitude, Gordius dedicated his wagon to the god Zeus and securely tied the tongue of the wagon in the temple grove with a thick, strong rope.

In Asia lives a remarkable little spider that has its home under the water. This water spider spins a tiny web in the shape of a bell and attaches it to stems of water weeds and plants just below the pond surface. All spiders must breathe air, so the water spider takes its air along like a skin diver.