The Good News Tour Vancouver DVD is now available for purchase from our online e-store. CLICK HERE to get the process started. As with all of our materials - if you can't afford to purchase it - or you simply don't want to spend the cash - we will send you a copy for free! Just send us an email :-)

The Good News Tour Vancouver DVD set is the one 4 disc presentation you want to show your non-Christian and unreligious friends. Featuring Greg Boyd - the gospel of Jesus is presented in a way that stands in contrast with fear based evangelism and yet will provoke and even unsettle many as the true goodness of God is proclaimed by each of the speakers. For the vast majority - it will bring great joy!

Interviews conducted right on the streets of Vancouver accompany each presentation and no topic is taboo.

It doesn’t matter what church you belong to, what religion you subscribe to or none of the above - this DVD set will paint a picture of God that inspires love and demystifies his character.

Have you ever wondered why Jesus died on a cross for mankind? If you grew up in a Christian home, you undoubtedly learned that Jesus died to pay the price for the sin of mankind and in order to be justified, blood from a perfect sacrifice had to be shed. Jesus Christ, we were told, was that perfect sacrifice (Romans 3:23-24, Romans 6:23, Isaiah 59:1, 2.)  You probably also learned that a person needs a savior to guide them (Proverbs 14:12) for it was a divergence from truth that brought catastrophe to our planet (Gen 3:1-24).

Because of this foundational teaching of the Christian church, precious emphasis has been placed on the death of God yet this teaching was not the primary focus in the early church.  Up until the Council of Constantinople (381 A.D.) the Christian church uplifted the Incarnation and Resurrection as over-arching themes in God’s role in humankind – not the crucifixion.  Up until then, the church taught with reverence and awe of a God who unlike all other deities, would seek to condescend and become a servant to his creatures by assuming a body of flesh and blood like us. No other religious community would dream of a god who would serve their subjects, no way. Instead, the gods were worshiped to be appeased by offering bloody sacrifices.  Who was this Unknown God who would dare to stoop? (Acts 17:23)...

To those who may feel that God is calling them but do not quite know how to respond I offer my own longing from a journal entry not too long ago. My wife and I were watching the latest episode of "West Wing", the one where they are introducing the new speech writer, "Will". And at the end Will, who has already won "Toby" over, hands Toby the note that "Sam" sent  him. After he has walked out Toby opens the note and reads:  "Toby, He's one of us. Sam"

They ended the show almost immediately and I told my wife something that I think goes to the heart of who I am and what I want.  "What I want more than anything else is for someone to say that of me." If I were going to write my character and had to look for what that character wanted most - this would be it. It summarizes what I am about, the soul of my desire.

As I drove to a meeting I was thinking about that desire and what it meant to have identified it. And here is the hard part: I think I have that in me. Maybe not as a speech writer for the president, but in the right place I have the potential to be “one of us”. But what I have not done is applied myself to make it obvious that such is the case. I have not pushed past the fear, the resistance, the critic, the sloth, the unfocused dreamer to create the “body of work” that would qualify me to be “one of us.”...

Many of you will remember our newsletter from September of last year. For the first time since our ministry was formed back in 2002 we petitioned for funding. We promised you all that we took the concept of “no guilt and all content” seriously and that we’d only make our needs known when we were unable to fullfill them any other way. Because of your help we were able to operate from September of last year to now without any further requests! Thank you so much!

With the release of the DVD and all the costs associated with publishing it and distributing it, along with our growing postage and shipping costs (every month we send DVDs, books, newsletters and other requested material for free to those all around the world that can't afford it) our monthly budget has increased by $500 just from last September. Our network related bills have grown and of course we also have one full time employee. Remember, we are a 501(c)3 organization—anything you give can be used as a tax deductible donation. Our monthly operating costs are around $2,500 a month and just keeps growing as more people request material and new content is created. Just to give you an idea – in the last 24 hours since we sent out our electronic version of our newsletter we’ve had requests for materials from: New York, Illinois, Michigan, Indonesia, Puerto Rico, 3 from South Africa, Kenya, 4 from Zimbabwe, Zambia, Orkney Islands, Bulgaria, and finally – one in California. Without your help our next month's financial requirements will simply not be met.

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