Four great concerns…. by Don Fortner “Enoch WALKED with God….” Genesis 5:24 My heart is motivated, driven and governed by four great concerns.Here are four things I want more than anything in this world.I am not an ambitious man. But I am ambitious for thesefour things. For the attainment of these four things I amprepared, […]

“THE LAW IS NOT MADE FOR A RIGHTEOUS MAN” I Timothy 1:9 Henry Mahan No man is righteous in himself. The righteous man here intended is the man who believes in Christ with the heart unto righteousness and who lays hold on Christ’s righteousness by faith, in consequence of which he lives soberly, righteously, and […]

Salvation, eternal life is nothing less than the life of God in you! It is “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Colossians 1:27 All the religions of this world focus on preparing people to live in this world. The gospel of Christ focuses on preparing people to live in the world to come.    […]

“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.” Romans 8:2 J.C.Philpot We by nature and practice are slaves to sin and Satan. We are the sport of the prince of the power of the air, who takes us captive at his […]

All the religions of this world focus on preparing people to live in this world. The gospel of Christ focuses on preparing people to live in the world to come. -pastor Don Fortner A TRUE HEART There are several things I constantly beg from God for this congregation and for myself. One of them is […]

No matter where I am preaching from in the whole Bible, if I cannot title the message “Jesus Christ and Him crucified”, I ought to throw the message away. – Chris Cunningham “…as a preacher I cannot be very proud of my diseased prayers and sin-stained sermons. Neither can I boast much of my daily backslidings, […]

THE NEARNESS OF GOD Octavious Winslow “A God at hand, says the Lord.”–Jer. 23:23 More saints than Luther have felt a personal interest in the forty-sixth Psalm–“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble;” thus drinking with him of the “river the streams whereof make glad the city of God.” My […]

Spiritual Prostitutes The Lord calls Mystery Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots, the Great Whore. (Rev.17)  The mystery of Babylon is that her citizens do not see her or themselves as spiritual prostitutes. Spiritual prostitution is committed anytime and every time anyone tries to pay God for His favors. The glorious person and accomplished work […]

I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departing […]

Dwarf or Giant? The following is from Spurgeon’s sermon, “The Former and the Latter Rain” #880 Jer.5:24. The plan Satan seems to have adopted is that of preventing, as far as he can, our raising in our midst a race of eminent and advanced Christians. We have in this age but few giants in grace […]