Posted in Church Life, cross, encouragement, Gospel, sacrifice, Serving, Uncategorized on Oct 24th, 2011
This week I was reintroduced to a good friend. This friend of mind has been home with the Lord for 29 years now and I can hardly listen to his music without going back in my head and heart to those days of youth; me and Marilyn fresh in our new birth listening to Keith [...]
Posted in Church Life, encouragement, following christ, hypocrisy, Serving on Aug 5th, 2011
by glennchristopherson I know a lot of nice people and some of them are Christians. But somehow some of God’s people have been convinced that niceness is the name of the game…well it’s not. Now of course I’m not advocating that we should go out and be deliberately rude and insensitive and crass. But to be [...]
Posted in church, conscience, cross, deception, discernment, encouragement, faith, false teachers, following christ, Gospel, hearing, Hell, heresy, hypocrisy, new age, Nicolaitan, offense, Organized church, peace, Preachers, prophecy, repentence, sacrifice, seeing, Serving, sin, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding on May 7th, 2011
Where do we start an examination of “truth,” well, at the beginning would be a good place, so let’s go back to Genesis and the Garden of Eden. The common story of the “beginning” seems to always start and finish with the disobedience of eating the forbidden fruit. That is all well and good, but [...]
Posted in apostacy, church, deception, discernment, Emergent, false teachers, following christ, hearing, hypocrisy, new age, Organized church, Preachers, prostitution, seeing, Serving, sin, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding, war, war on sin on Feb 14th, 2011
Why does the idea of sin not take Christians by the neck and shake the Devil out of them? Because the vast majority of Believers care little about sin in their own lives, and give precious little thought about how and why sin deceives us and seeks to destroy us. Sin is the prevailing evil [...]
Posted in books, Church Life, Communion, encouragement, faith, holiness, seeing, Serving, sin, Truth, understanding on Feb 6th, 2011
THE HARNESS OF THE LORD by Bill Britton I SAW THE KING'S CARRIAGE On a dirt road in the middle of a wide field stood a beautiful carriage, something on the order of a stagecoach but all edged in gold and with beautiful carvings. It was pulled by six large chestnut horses: [...]
Posted in adversity, books, Church Life, cross, encouragement, faith, holiness, Organized church, Preachers, repentence, sacrifice, seeing, Serving, sin, suffering, trials, troubles, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding on Jan 16th, 2011
George Warnock say so gracefully and plainly what I have been trying to say, in my stumbling way, that we need an awakening to the deep things of God. What we have learned to be content with, in our forms and programs, George brings to the forefront and shines the bright light of truth [...]
Posted in apostacy, church, cross, deception, discernment, Emergent, faith, false teachers, following christ, Government, hearing, humanism, Judgment, peace, repentence, sacrifice, seeing, Serving, suffering, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding, war on Jan 14th, 2011
Definition of PACIFIST 2: strongly and actively opposed to conflict and especially war Does that definition describe Jesus? No! Although He never engaged in or even defended Himself against violence, and charged His followers to do the same, He did not strongly and actively oppose conflict or war by unbelieving nations or people. On the contrary the Bible [...]
Posted in apostacy, church, Church Life, deception, discernment, Emergent, entertainment, faith, false prophets, false teachers, following christ, hearing, humanism, hypocrisy, Judgment, Organized church, Preachers, seeing, Serving, sin, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding on Dec 17th, 2010
I belong to a club of bass fishermen. In that club, there are some good and talented anglers. We all make a display of talent, even if we have only modest ability, and boast among ourselves about trophy catches, but at the end of the day it is the Kevin Van Dam=s and the [...]
Posted in adversity, church, Church Life, Communion, cross, encouragement, faith, following christ, offense, Organized church, Serving, suffering, trials, troubles, Truth, understanding on Nov 13th, 2010
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1930's, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, England, and the United States…… On Grace, the Cross, Our Cross, and Life Together "Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. "Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and [...]
Posted in books, encouragement, faith, Serving, trials, understanding on Oct 25th, 2010
from Be thus Minded… by Pearl Have you heard of Helen Roseveare? I hadn’t until I came across a book of hers called Living Sacrifice. She was a medical missionary in Zaire from 1953 to 1973. Her story is a remarkable one. Not so much for the adventures she experienced in Africa, but more because [...]
