Ministry Update 2020

Ways Your Giving Brings the Gospel to many who are Grateful

Your giving provides access to our free online library, free downloads of our mobile app, and at-cost books, CDs, DVDs, and USBs. Thank you.

More than 100,000 livestream viewers from around the world on Resurrection Sunday

Watching the livestream from Tokyo. Thank you!

Donna, Tokyo, Japan

Thank you SO much for the livestream. It’s been a great blessing to me, especially as I find myself without a home church at this time.

Jo, Warsaw, IN

Since my church can’t meet, I realize how important your livestream service is to all of us. Thank you for the extra effort to get the Word out to the world and for giving us the opportunity to praise the Lord with you!

Albert, California, MD

87,000 subscribers to the daily devotional

Please don’t stop publishing these gems of truth, rather continue to publish them year over year for the benefit of hearts and minds.

Bernard, Lancaster, KY

I'm so thankful for this ministry and pray fervently and regularly for all those who lovingly put these daily readings together!

Brinda Faye, San Francisco, CA

273,000 Bible-teaching resources distributed with no markup in 2019

Thanks for all the great books. I’m sending The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross to my grandchildren in Australia

Ann, Longview, TX

Thanks for the awesome books that you so kindly offer each month.

Steve and Rose, Highland Heights, KY

Thank you for the low-price teaching materials. I hand out USB drives and CDs to many people.

Ron, Washington, IA

76,395 monthly radio broadcasts

I'm not sure that any words could express the reassurance and comfort that your messages this past week have brought us. We've enjoyed your ministry for many years, but these past few weeks, it’s been so very important to be able to lean on the promises of God that you've helped us understand. Thank you for being here for us.

Janice & Roy, Pomfret, CT

Your broadcast was such a blessing to me! It was just the message I needed as are your Truth For Life emails each day!!

Stan, Bella Vista, AZ

Thank you for this excellent teaching—a lifeline in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis

David, Beaver, PA

35,000 weekly Sunday livestream viewers

You are a light for Christ in this dark world! Thank you.

June, Johannesburg, South Africa

I’m so thankful for the Sunday morning livestream. I especially appreciate the music with which I sing heartily along. This service has replaced my lack of fellowship, as I feel fully connected to each one participating in this broadcast.

Elizabeth, Carleton Place, Ontario, Canada

We thank God for the faithful, clear exposition of the Scriptures as we listen to Truth For Life day by day and watch the Sunday livestream. My wife and I are retired missionaries. We take delight in encouraging others to be blessed by Truth For Life.

Ron and Jeanette, Melbourne, Australia

76,000 free mobile app users

Alistair's sermons have changed the person I am today.

Michael, Wellsville, KS

Thank you so much! I listen to your podcast almost every night. The messages give me so much comfort.

Danny, Schomberg, Ontario, Canada

I really love listening to Truth For Life on my phone. I’m currently in the study of Colossians and am growing spiritually through many of the lessons.

Lynnette, La Salle, MI

4.5 million million free message downloads and streams each month

I’ve watched countless sermons that have been fruitful to my soul! Alistair’s teaching on anxiety and trusting in God are just a few that I couldn’t stop watching. Thanks to the free online resources from Truth For Life, I’ve been able to grow in my understanding of God’s Word.

Parker, Lubbock, Texas

I listen to Alistair Begg every morning and evening, and to the Sunday livestream service. I’m SO grateful for all the good, solid teaching. I feel so bad that I can’t contribute but our money here in South Africa is not worth much now. I greatly appreciate those who give so I can benefit. THANK YOU SO MUCH TO ALL WHO DONATE!

Diana, South Africa

I'm an American, but serve as a missionary to Africa and Europe, only rarely being in the States. I listen to Truth For Life wherever I am, every day. I passed the link for both the Christmas and Easter program on to many others. Thanks so much for making this possible for us, wherever in the world we happen to be!

Darlene, Spokane Valley, WA

Things We’re Working on Now

As we press onward, our team is working on a number of enhancements.

Website Enhancements

If you use the Truth For Life mobile app, you’ve noticed numerous enhancements, both visually and functionally. Our team is currently working to make similar updates to the website so that you’ll have the same experience both on the app and at truthforlife.org. Our hope is to begin rolling out website upgrades before the end of the year.

Electronic Message of the Month

We’ve received your ongoing requests for an electronic version of the Message of the Month. We realize many homes and new cars no longer have CD players. Our desire is to offer you the option to receive your Message of the Month electronically. We aim to complete this effort before the end of the year.

Transcripts

When you’re online at truthforlife.org, you’ll find a transcript of Alistair’s message by clicking Read Transcript under the player image for the daily program. Our team of editors continues to work on transcript creation for all of Alistair’s teaching, and we aim to add a Read Transcript feature to the mobile app.

Introducing New People to Truth For Life

Like you, we have a passion to see unbelieving people become committed followers of Jesus Christ. Along these lines, your support helps bring Alistair’s teaching to new audiences. Because your generous partnership makes it possible for our books and USBs to be sold at cost, with no markup, we introduce people not connected with the ministry to these low-cost resources. The response is often substantial, and we follow up with a welcome series of introductory information. In 2019, this evangelistic effort introduced 80,000 people to Truth For Life. Thank you for making this possible!

Radio Network

We continually look for opportunities to expand our radio network. With broad coverage across the US, there are still opportunities to improve broadcast times, widen reach across a listening area, and air the program on newly launched stations.

Truth For Life is currently broadcast through 1,883 radio stations and airs 76,395 times each month. If you have a friend in another city and would like to let them know what time and on what station they can hear Truth For Life in their hometown, simply enter their address or city in our Station Finder at truthforlife.org/finder

Recommendations for Your Bible Study

If your Bible study group is looking for a topic and corresponding study materials for your next session, there are a number of great options using Alistair’s teaching. We recommend the following:

Name above All Names

A study of the person and work of Jesus

Book and study guide

Seven chapters that each explore a different description of Christ make this an excellent seven-part study.

Purchase

Pathway to Freedom

A study of the Ten Commandments

Book and audio series on CD (or free audio online)

This insightful study dives deep into the Ten Commandments and teaches that God’s commands are not a ladder to climb but a mirror to help us see ourselves and our need for a Savior. This will make a great twelve-week study.

Purchase

Pray Big

How to pray big prayers by learning from the apostle Paul

Book

Eight topical chapters drawn from Paul’s prayers in the book of Ephesians explore the attributes of prayer and also the things for which we should pray.

Purchase

One

A study of unity in the body of Christ

Audio CD (or free audio online)

This short series addresses unity in the body of Christ: one body, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God and Father.

Purchase

A Christian Manifesto

A study of the Beatitudes

Audio CD (or free online audio) and written transcripts

This short eight-message study provides wonderful insight into Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount.

Purchase

Intended for Good

A study of God’s sovereignty

Audio CD, Video DVD (or free audio and video online)

This brief three-message study explores the doctrine of God’s providence.

Purchase

Things You May not Know

You can view the Sunday evening service. While the Sunday evening service from Parkside Church is not streamed live as it is in the morning, you can often view the service when it’s made available online later in the week. If there’s a Sunday evening service available to watch, you’ll find it under the Latest Sermons tab. And by way of reminder, the Sunday morning livestream can be viewed at 9:45 a.m. eastern at truthforlife.org/live or through our YouTube channel or Facebook page and on streaming TV. If 9:45 a.m. eastern is an inconvenient time, the service remains viewable on all these channels throughout the day.

You can view Alistair’s speaking schedule. If you want to know where Alistair will be speaking in the coming months, click on the Events tab in the top menu bar at truthforlife.org to view scheduled speaking engagements and locations truthforlife.org/events/.

You can add Truth For Life’s teaching to your own website. If you’d like to add Truth For Life’s content to your church’s or organization’s website, you can do that simply by request. The daily program, daily devotional, One-Year Bible Reading Plan, and Sunday livestream are all available to link to from within your site. You can find more information about how to do this by going to truthforlife.org/syndicate/request.

You can have text from the ESV Bible read to you through both our website and the mobile app. On the app, select Bible in the bottom bar, then the book and chapter you’d like to hear, then tap the play icon. On the website, click on the More option in the top menu bar, then select Online Bible ESV, then select from the options on the right to choose your Scripture. Tap the player button and the audio will begin. truthforlife.org/bible.

Truthpartners can order their monthly books online. When you become a Truthpartner and set up an online account on our website, you can quickly and easily order your monthly books at truthforlife.org or through the mobile app. Establishing a profile is quick and easy—visit truthforlife.org/account.