Posted in Church Life, Doctrine, faith, following christ, holiness, peace, sin, war, war on sin on Feb 19th, 2011
This is a very good question since we all want to be strong, healthy, and enjoy many good days of peace and comfort. Many a man has spent his whole life in the fight against indwelling sin, in a constant battle, and has never seen a day of comfort, and feel all the time [...]
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 church, Church Life, deception, discernment, faith, hearing, hypocrisy, Organized church, seeing, sin, understanding on Nov 8th, 2010
This is an article by my friend and regular contributor to this blog, Glenn Christopherson. Glenn has a clear understanding of the problems of the age in which we live. I pray that you will take the time to read and think about what Glenn is saying. Comment if you like, but don't just [...]
Posted in church, cross, deception, discernment, faith, following christ, hearing, offense, Organized church, sacrifice, seeing, sin, trials, troubles, Truth, Uncategorized, understanding on Oct 30th, 2010
For the better part of my thirty plus years of calling myself a Christian I never comprehended or understood what was meant by the “offence of the Cross.” it seemed to me that this “offence” was an overstatement. Was Christ and His Cross really offensive or just mildly disturbing and controversial? And, all the persecution, [...]
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 [...]
