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If you've been wondering what you can do to help minister to other believers, to help them grow in Grace and in the knowledge of the Lord, wonder no more! Didaskalos Ministries (bibleteacher.org) is looking for Godly works from mature Christian authors to publish at this site. When you publish a work at this site you will be helping us minister as we promote understanding of God's Word within the Christian community.

We are looking for the following original contributions:

Bible studies or commentaries
Bible study outlines
Stories, illustrations, or humorous antidotes that can be used to illustrate Biblical concepts
Sermon texts or Sermon outlines

Contributions to Didaskalos Ministries must be your own original work, or works that are known to be copyright expired (within the Public Domain). Do not submit works of other authors, such as articles from "Chicken Soup for the Soul". Republishing copyright material opens both this ministry (and you) to legal action for copyright infringement.

Submissions to Didaskalos Ministries remain the property of the contributor (you!). However, any work submitted must be:

Regarded as a contribution. Absolutely no monetary compensation will be offered to you in exchange for publishing the work. We do not receive payment for our own services, and this website is privately funded. All things offered at Didaskalos are offered freely to the Christian community, so your contribution will be considered a free contribution to the cause of Christ.
Submitted with the understanding that the contributed work must remain posted on this site for a minimum of 90 days. The work, in essence, becomes property of this site during the publications window. We do not have time to post and remove works on a daily basis. If you want the work to be removed after the 90 day period, specify this when you submit it for publication. We will track the work and honor your request when the minimum publication time has expired.
Submitted in a finished format. In the past we have accepted works for publication, then re-posted them again and again with author's corrections every two or three days. We do not have time to keep re-posting the same work. Do not send drafts, send finished pieces that you are ready to publish.

Your work will be edited for spelling and proper grammar by the Didaskalos Ministries editorial staff. This is to make the work more presentable for publication, and also serves to protect the contributor and this ministry from embarrassment.

Submitted as text heavy, not graphics heavy. Illustrations are fine if in .gif or .jpeg format, but should remain under 50KB in size. Remember, the more pictures, the slower the page loads. Most visitors will not wait over 30 seconds for a page to load. Long loading pages are therefore useless. We will post logos or backgrounds to your page(s) as long as the graphics remain under 50KB in size.

When we receive your work it will be reformatted in HTML and "spell checked" using a commercial word processor utility. The content of your work will not be edited or changed in any way. Again, this is your work, not ours, and we respect that. The final published document will have the following format:

¹Site Logo

²Your Name, E-Mail Address, Home Page

³Copyright Statement

⁴Document Expiration Date

⁵Your Work

1. The same Site Logo and background that you see at the top of this page will be on the final posted document.
2. Your name, e-mail address, and a link back to your home page will be placed next. We do not post this information if you request it be omitted.
3. If you have a particular copyright statement that you want used, submit it with the work and it will be posted. Otherwise we will use the following text: "This contributed article is copyright protected, and the sole property of the contributing author. The materiel may be freely used by anyone, as long as it is not sold or in any way used for monetary or property gain by the users!"
4. If you request that the document be removed from the server after the 90 day publication period, that information will be posted here. If you do not specify the publications window, the work will be posted for an indefinite period of time, not to be less than 90 days from initial posting.
5. Your unedited, finished work will be posted here.

Didaskalos Ministries reserves the right to refuse to publish any work submitted, though we hope to accept all contributed articles. Please read our doctrinal statement before submitting anything to us for publication.

It saddens us, but frequently we have discovered certain people to be petty and small minded, viz., authors have contributed works, discovered something on this site to be not to their liking, then demanded that their material be removed immediately. This is not only inconvenient, but it shows the caliber of that spiritually immature individual's commitment to Christ. As of January 1, 2001, those who submit articles to this site do so with the legal and contractual understanding of all the requirements listed above. Works will not be posted and then removed for petty reasons without a written court order. This not only includes works from individuals, but also works from Churches, private estates, and businesses. The owner and CEO of this site is a conservative Christian minister of the Gospel, and all posted works and articles from contributing authors must be cleared for publication through this individual.
We apologize to sane and rational Christians everywhere that a select few have made this page and these requirements necessary.