The wonderful thing about church yesterday is that the same thing I taught in my Sunday school class my pastor preached on in his sermon, I had no idea he was going to preach on the law and the old covenant. But let me talk about Sunday school, we talked about the law and how the law is used to bring us to the point of Salvation. We went to Romans2:14-16 14 For when…
Isaiah chapter 6 1 In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple. 2 Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one called out to another and said, “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of…
(Octavius Winslow, “Divine Realities” 1860) “My times are in Your hand.” Psalm 31:15 Learn to be content with your present lot—with God’s dealings with you, and His disposal of you. You are just where His providence has, in its inscrutable, but all wise and righteous decision, placed you. It may be a painful, irksome, trying position—but it is right. Oh yes—it is right! Strive, then, to live a life of daily dependence upon God.…
Unchurched people today are the ultimate consumers. We may not like it, but for every sermon we preach, they’re asking, “Am I interested in that subject or not?” If they aren’t, it doesn’t matter how effective our delivery is; their minds will check out.–Bill Hybels That is precisely my concern about today’s pragmatic church-growth strategies. The design is to attract the unchurched. For what? To entertain them? To get them to attend church meetings…
I‘ve been thinking about Church this past Sunday – Sanctity of Human Life Sunday. Abortion is terrible, horrible and God hates it, but He hates all sin. I love Care Net and the work they do to minimize this horrible sin that people do to God’s unborn. The compassion they show to people who come to them, the Gospel they share so God can convert them. What a wonderful light they are for God.…
Inward, Upward, or Outward By John MacArthur If the average evangelical congregation were surveyed concerning the primary purpose of the church, it is likely that many diverse answers would be given. Several purposes, however, would probably be prominent. A large number would rank fellowship first, the opportunity to associate and interact with fellow Christians who share similar beliefs and values. They highly value the fact that the church provides activities and programs for the…
Get the Flash Player to see this content. “I wonder also how many Christians in our day have truly and completely abandoned themselves to Jesus Christ as their Lord. We are very busy telling people to ‘accept Christ’—and that seems to be the only word we are using. We arrange a painless acceptance. We are telling people that the easiest thing in the world is to accept Jesus Christ, and I wonder what has…
HOLY ZEAL By John MacDuff, 1870 “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”—John 2:17 “Zeal is a principle; enthusiasm is a feeling. The one is the spark of a sanguine temperament and overheated imagination. The other a sacred flame kindled at God’s altar and burning in God’s shrine.”—(Vaughan) Such was the holy heavenly zeal of our Great Exemplar. His were no transient…
“Why is it that the promise of eternal salvation alone no longer seems to have as much power to attract men to Christ? Why is modern man more interested in how the Gospel can help him in this present life? First, it is because preachers are no longer preaching about the certainty of judgment and the dangers of hell. When these things are preached biblically and clearly, men begin to see that their greatest…
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My friend, I stand in judgment now, And feel that you’re to blame somehow. On earth I walked with you by day, And never did you show the way. You knew the Savior in truth and glory, But never did you tell the story. My knowledge then was very dim. You could have led me safe to Him. Though we lived together, here on earth, You never told me of the second birth.…
During our worship at Church yesterday, I could not bring myself to sing this song and worship God. I kept on asking myself Do I worship Him with all my heart? Do I praise Him with all my strength? Do I seek Him all of my days? Do I follow Him and His ways? The answer was NO I don’t, so I added two words to help me to be able to…
“Jesus was born of a virgin, suffered under Pontius Pilate, died on the cross and rose from the grace to make worshipers out of rebels!” “I am of the opinion that we should not be concerned about working for God until we have learned the meaning and delight of worshiping Him…I fear that there are many professing Christians who do not want to hear such statements about their ‘busy schedule,’ but it is the…
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When my Mom first became a Christian, she would have her face stuck in the bible all the time, she would write poems about what she learned, she would witness like crazy. Drive people crazy with revelation she learned from studying the bible. I always thought she was a little overboard back then. She would always quote this verse to us kids’: 2 Timothy 2:15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as…
A man needs very little of this world’s goods to carry him through his pilgrimage, until he comes to his home–until he comes to heaven. A little will satisfy the demands of nature; though nothing will satisfy a man’s lusts! “I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. I know both how to have a little, and I know how to have a lot. In any and all circumstances I have…
Get the Flash Player to see this content. “The reason men worship God in a casual way is because they do not see God in His Glory. If a man has ever had Isaiah’s vision of the Holiness of God, he would be changed in an instant. But until men have seen God as He truly is they will be forever guilty of the very same rebuke that God gave to the wicked in…
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Romans 3:10-12 10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; 11 no one understands; no one seeks for God. 12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” Philippians 2:21 21 For they all seek after their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus. John 6:37,44 37 “All that the Father gives…
“He who says he abides in Him, ought himself also to walk even as He walked.” 1 John 2:6 Christians are to set all Christ’s moral actions before them as a pattern for their imitation. In Christ’s life, a Christian may behold the picture or lineaments of all virtues–and accordingly he ought to order his life in this world. To walk as Christ walked is to walk . . . humbly, holily, justly, meekly,…
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