Your Life’s Ambition
Your Life’s Ambition
Listen, there is only one valid goal in life – to live for God and love Him supremely.
Why is Fasting so Little Employed by True Christians?
Why is Fasting so Little Employed by True Christians?
Those meals you miss fasting will soon be forgotten but the blessing and the reward will remain forever. “Your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly”.
Whom Shall I Fear? The Lord is My Light
Whom Shall I Fear? The Lord is My Light
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
What To Do When You’re Snared
What To Do When You’re Snared
Trapped! Ensnared! Captured! What the enemy is unable to do by open assault he often can easily accomplish by subtlety. The first thing the Bible says about...
What Should the Average Day Look Like for a True Believer?
What Should the Average Day Look Like for a True Believer?
"What should the average day look like for a true believer?" - This was a question I received in an email this morning. Here are some brief thoughts. There are many other things from the scriptures that we also c...
What Every Woman Needs
What Every Woman Needs
God alone can provide unconditional, self-sacrificial love, a love that has her highest good in view. The Bible tells us: “in this is love...
Water Baptism
Water Baptism
The devil has used the waters of baptism to sink more souls in hell than about any other vice or device. Wily as Satan is, he has stolen a beautiful ordinance of God and used it for himself, filling church houses w...
Watch Live – 2022 Fellowship Conference
Watch Live – 2022 Fellowship Conference
The Fellowship Conference, which happens annually in Denton, Texas, is starting this Thursday. If you are interested in watching the conference live, you can do so through the following links. Please note that all times are CST timezone.
Undiscerned Spiritual Pride
Undiscerned Spiritual Pride
The first and worst cause of errors that abound in our day and age is spiritual pride. In this article Jonathan Edwards exposes this sin.
Thoughts That Have Helped Me Upon Cancer and Death
Thoughts That Have Helped Me Upon Cancer and Death
Christ is all anyone can have. We have nothing apart from Christ and the work He did on the cross imputed to us. All else is stripped away at death.
Thoughts on Marriage for Newlyweds
Thoughts on Marriage for Newlyweds
The secret of a lasting marriage and a happy marriage is in perpetually, continually, habitually giving God the number one position, purpose and passion in your lives and marriage.
The Unpardonable Sin
The Unpardonable Sin
It is not the unpardonable sin which hinders your being a Christian; but your wickedness of heart, your pride, vanity, and insincerity.
The Trinity: You Must Believe In It
The Trinity: You Must Believe In It
Do people who believe in modalism and oneness Pentecostalism worship the true God of the bible?
The Spirit’s Help in Prayer
The Spirit’s Help in Prayer
First, notice that the Spirit is a helper. Jesus calls Him that. He is not "our little helper", but it is more like the king helping...
The Lord Will Guide Those Who Fear Him
The Lord Will Guide Those Who Fear Him
The person who fears God need fear nothing else. He who does not fear God must fear every other threat, for he has no substantial defense.
The Intercessor – A Prayer Warrior Who Has the Gift of Intercessory Prayer?
The Intercessor – A Prayer Warrior Who Has the Gift of Intercessory Prayer?
The term "intercessor" occurs only once in the Bible. "And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor . . . "
The Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ
The Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich...
The Folly of Human Preference
The Folly of Human Preference
Trifling with conscience and lack of full obedience to the Holy Spirit in the personal life of a Christian expose him to the grave danger, either of exhibiting self-will...
The Dream of Pilate’s Wife
The Dream of Pilate’s Wife
What did she dream about? We don't know exactly but yet from the pain she suffered; we can well imagine that...
The Christian in College
The Christian in College
Written in 1978 and still applicable for today. As a Christian in College: Don't state things as absolutes unless they clearly are Biblical absolutes.
The Beauty of Holiness
The Beauty of Holiness
God puts a premium on the beauty of holiness. Physical beauty is relatively meaningless to God.
The Arrows of God’s Discipline
The Arrows of God’s Discipline
The arrows of God’s discipline are aimed at, and hit a particular object. The object is sin, a particular sin. It is not the believer’s only sin, but it is the sin which God wants out of his life now.
Spring Conference in Laredo, Texas with Tim Conway
Spring Conference in Laredo, Texas with Tim Conway
Where: 1402 Corpus Christi St, Laredo, Texas 78040 When: April 24-26, 2015 Who: Grace Community Church of Laredo is a church plant of GCCSATX. Pastor Tim Conway will be preaching at this year's conference. Confer...
Speculative Preaching
Speculative Preaching
Speculative preaching is preaching and majoring on what might be or what could be, instead of what is. It hopes to invoke a response or decision...
Sit And Behold The Cross of Christ | Fellowship Conference UK
Sit And Behold The Cross of Christ | Fellowship Conference UK
Ryan Clarke: What does it mean to say behold? It means to stop. Stop. Gaze upon him. Gaze upon this Christ. There he is. The Lamb of God. Who came to take away the sin of the world. This sacrifice is sufficient....
Self-Righteously Trying to Save Myself: David Brainerd’s Testimony
Self-Righteously Trying to Save Myself: David Brainerd’s Testimony
When reading the Life and Diary of David Brainerd I was struck by how self-righteous Brainerd was as a lost person prior to being saved. Many of the...
Secret Death-bed Repentance
Secret Death-bed Repentance
“There is one death bed repentance recorded in the Bible that no one despair, but there is only one instance that no one presume.” Matthew Henry.
Remembering a Friend, Mike Morrow
Remembering a Friend, Mike Morrow
We should make time to spend with those we love. It is a great lesson to learn and a great truth to realize, that life is not meant to be lived by rushing from one responsibility to another...
Quotes on Reaching Out to the Lost
Quotes on Reaching Out to the Lost
"Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting. He who goes to and fro weeping, carrying his bag of seed, Shall indeed come again with a shout of joy, bringing his sheaves with him." - Psalm 126:5,6 "N...
Questioning God’s Ways – Why Did God Permit Sin?
Questioning God’s Ways – Why Did God Permit Sin?
How do you respond to one who is questioning God's ways? The man was taken aback by the ready retort...
Preservation of the Saints
Preservation of the Saints
The apostle Paul here was entirely confident that the saints at Philippi would make it. Here are four reasons why...
Pray!
Pray!
Prayer is signally the holiest and most spiritual exercise of mortal men. Carnal flesh shrinks and flees from it. It is cause for spiritual alarm when we find ourselves...
Points on Parenting
Points on Parenting
Parents can give away their authority. Never say no if you don’t mean it. Don’t give a command, even a little one, if you are not willing to back it up. And parents can give a command in such a tone that the child senses there are options.
Paul’s Struggle for the Unity of the Saints
Paul’s Struggle for the Unity of the Saints
Disunity is a very discouraging thing. But what strength comes from unity. Like the little wires, all knit together, make the strength of the cable, so it is for the church.
Paul Washer’s Recent Heart Attack
Paul Washer’s Recent Heart Attack
No doubt most have heard by now that on Monday night brother Paul Washer suffered a heart attack and was in critical condition.
Patriarchy vs. Single Women in the Bible
Patriarchy vs. Single Women in the Bible
Take note of these examples of single women who were on their own, working outside of the home, and supporting themselves and others.
Paper Missionaries and Silent Preachers: The Value of Gospel Tracts
Paper Missionaries and Silent Preachers: The Value of Gospel Tracts
“What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” -Mark 8:36 “Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father, but through Me.”" -John 14:6 These, ...
Overview of New I’ll Be Honest Website Design
Overview of New I’ll Be Honest Website Design
In view of recently updating the I'll Be Honest website, this post is meant to give an overview of some of the changes that we've made.
On Movements
On Movements
Movements often have prophetic tones. I do not mean they necessarily teach future events, but there is a part of them which is compelled to...
Old Prophets: 8 Preachers Who Compromised In Old Age
Old Prophets: 8 Preachers Who Compromised In Old Age
During the past few years, it has occurred to me that a man could have a deeply rich and fruitful ministry for most of his life, and then in his later years do, write, or embrace something that almost, if not actually, disgraces the Lord's name and casts a shadow on his entire ministry.