The Called / the Church/worship

Circumcision of the Heart

Posted by on March 6, 2022 at 6:26 am

Circumcision of the Heart      Physical circumcision is the cutting away of flesh. Religious circumcision is when men either cut out of their lives fleshly pleasures, or look to fleshly things in hopes of earning favor with God. It is man’s desire to make a fair show in the flesh to avoid suffering persecution for […]

“We Will Be Glad And Rejoice In Thee”

Posted by on January 11, 2022 at 7:17 am

“We Will Be Glad And Rejoice In Thee”     Song of Solomon 1:4 Another year is dawning. We who are the children of the living God will not open the gates of the new year in sorrow and mourning. We will sing unto our God. With joy in our hearts and gladness in our […]

The most important aspect of a believer’s life is public worship

Posted by on May 17, 2021 at 4:26 am

The most important aspect of a believer’s life is public worship – the worship of God in the assembly of his saints, collectively singing his praise, calling upon him in prayer, and hearing the exposition of his Word by the preaching of the gospel.  ~Don Fortner

Who makes you different from anyone else?

Posted by on November 17, 2020 at 10:26 am

Who makes you different from anyone else? (Charles Spurgeon) “Who maketh thee to differ from another?  What hast thou, that thou did’t not receive?  And if thou dids’t receive it, why dost thou boast as if thou hads’t not received it?” 1 Corinthians 4:7 It is grace—free sovereign grace, which has made you to differ! […]

One perfect sweet!

Posted by on July 11, 2020 at 11:10 pm

One perfect sweet! (The following is by Spurgeon) “You are fairer than the children of men.” Psalm 45:2 The entire person of Jesus is but as one gem, and his life is all along but one impression of the seal. He is altogether complete; not only in his several parts, but as a gracious all-glorious […]

WHERE IS THE WISE?

Posted by on October 7, 2019 at 6:36 am

WHERE IS THE WISE? Clay Curtis 1 Corinthians 1: 19: For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 20: Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom […]

THE OUTCOME

Posted by on June 16, 2019 at 9:45 am

THE OUTCOMERomans 10: 15:…as it is written, how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! With these words Christ foretold the outcome that he would produce in the heart of each of his saints by calling us through the means of preaching (Is 52: 6-8) In […]

NOT FAR BUT NOT IN

Posted by on May 9, 2019 at 12:09 pm

NOT FAR BUT NOT INMark 12: 34: And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. The charge Christ has given his pastors is “Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is […]

Peter’s Sin And Repentance

Posted by on April 7, 2019 at 10:18 am

Peter’s Sin And RepentanceTom HardingPeter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly. (Matt. 26:75).There has been much written and said of Peter’s failure and sin when he denied that he knew the Lord Jesus Christ, but not much of Peter’s conviction […]

Satan’s Grief = The Children Of God

Posted by on April 1, 2019 at 10:11 am

Satan’s Grief = The Children Of GodTommy Robbins“The more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.” Exodus 1:12As Satan and the world is no match for God, neither is sin and Satan a victor over the children of God – “Nay, in all these things […]