SERVICE AND MEEKNESS -Spurgeon, “Rest, Rest” “Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart…” Matthew 11:29 If I actively labor for Christ I can only find rest in the labor, by possessing the meek spirit of my Lord. For if I go forth to labor for […]
Things that Promote Peace Let us therefore follow after the things which promote peace, and things wherewith one may edify another” (Romans 14:19). 1.) Be careful to LOVE one another with a true heart. “Love covers a multitude of failures.” 2.) Avoid a spirit of ARGUMENT AND DEBATE. One may win an argument and lose a friend. 3.) Beware of […]
“My Meditation of Him Shall Be Sweet” Psalms 104:34 When you and I first came to Jesus Christ we came to a person, we believed in a person, we trusted a person to save us. Of course we believed his doctrine as he gave us understanding, but his doctrine told us of the person. It’s […]
“My Meditation of Him Shall Be Sweet” Psalms 104:34 When you and I first came to Jesus Christ we came to a person, we believed in a person, we trusted a person to save us. Of course we believed his doctrine as he gave us understanding, but his doctrine told us of the person. It’s […]
Gospel Distinctives by Don Fortner I know that the things we believe and preach, place us in direct conflict with the religious world around us. That really shouldn’t surprise us. When our Lord Jesus told the religious leaders of his day the things I am about to tell you, they started grabbing rocks to stone […]
A Father’s hand! (Octavius Winslow) “My times are in Your hand!” Psalm 31:15 Our times of adversity are also in God’s hand. As every sunbeam that brightens, so every cloud that darkens, comes from God. We are subject to great and sudden reverses in our earthly condition. Joy is often followed by grief; prosperity is […]
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: He that keepeth thee will not slumber… (Psalms 121:3) Your warfare, it seems, still continues; and it will continue while you remain here. But He is faithful that promised to make us more than conquerors in the last conflict, then we shall hear the voice of […]
“Come, buy wine and milk, without money, and without price.” Isa. lv. 1. Surely, no man can plead poverty as an excuse for not buying, when the things sold are not only without money, but without even the proposals for money; not only without ready money, but without any money. Here is not even a […]
GOOD NEWS FOR SINNERS I John 1: 8-10 I have in my shed an electric generator. It’s only function is to generate electricity. It does not drill holes, fasten lumber, or mow grass. It just generates power. Man, because of his fallen nature, is a sin generator. Everything he does is tainted by his nature. […]
If we deny- Charles Pennington.If we deny that man is dead in sin; that he is nothing, has nothing and can do nothing to merit salvation then we make ‘man true and God a liar’! If we deny God’s eternal and unconditional election of a people unto salvation; make salvation to be by man’s choice […]