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.
Isolationism
Isolationism
One of the worst forms of Isolationism is the “One Man Empire.” Often it begins something like this: A preacher notes a weakness...
I Lay Down and Slept
I Lay Down and Slept
I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me.
Christian Government
Christian Government
Christian Government can properly be applied to only one thing: Church government, government among a body of people that are distinctly Christian.
How Do You Respond to Personal Slander?
How Do You Respond to Personal Slander?
The psalmist finds himself in a position we all commonly share at times. He is being slandered. His words and actions have been misrepresented and his character maligned.
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.
How To Do It
How To Do It
The fact of the matter is, the Bible is not a How-To book; it is a What-To book. God tells us what to do, what must be done, what is our responsibility according to His laws and principles.
Lord! Save Our Children!
Lord! Save Our Children!
A subject of grave concern to all of us today is how we are to go about saving our children. How shall we deliver them from the corrupting influence...
“Happiness” Christianity
“Happiness” Christianity
It has been my experience that when persons come with a “happiness” problem, they get no help from the gospel. If their main concern is a better marriage...
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?
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...
Jonathan’s Robe: A Humble Response to Being Surpassed and Overshadowed
Jonathan’s Robe: A Humble Response to Being Surpassed and Overshadowed
This was the crisis of Jonathan's life. What was to be his attitude towards the one who had suddenly surpassed and overshadowed him? There could be...
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 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.
Condemned: Awaiting Execution
Condemned: Awaiting Execution
The Prince, desiring to make the wisest use of this privilege, spoke to many of them in succession, inquiring why they were condemned to death.
Abortion: Who’s to Say?
Abortion: Who’s to Say?
I put forward that there is indeed a word from God. The Bible, the law of the Lord, gives us a ruling on the matter – that the unborn is a person.
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...
Confrontation or Diplomacy
Confrontation or Diplomacy
The Biblical way is confrontation; the world’s way is diplomacy. Confrontation is the way of truth, honesty, exposure, light, hurt, cleansing, correction.
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.
Giving: Considering the Poor
Giving: Considering the Poor
Consideration for the poor will not buy us pardon for our offenses against God, but it is the unfailing evidence of the person who has the grace of God in his heart.
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.
Bible Meditation
Bible Meditation
Bible meditation is not necessarily Bible reading, not necessarily Scripture memory, not reading good books and commentaries, not listening to good sermons, not prayer nor singing...
Believing in Eternal Punishment Matters
Believing in Eternal Punishment Matters
First, if conscious eternal punishment is not true, then ultimately one can sin against God and get by with it. Second, if there is not the danger of men being "tormented forever...
2017 Fellowship Conference New England
2017 Fellowship Conference New England
The saints at Redeeming Grace Fellowship in Portland, Maine are organizing another conference this year. The Fellowship Conference New England will be held on August 3-5, 2017.
A Muzzled Mouth
A Muzzled Mouth
The sins of the tongue are easiest to commit and most subtle of all. How often they are engaged ignorantly! And we know it not until we begin to reap their bitter fruits.
Introspectionism
Introspectionism
Introspectionism has its seekers looking, not at Christ as their hope, but their repentance. Thus repentance itself becomes a fetish.
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.
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...
News for All Know-It-All Theologians
News for All Know-It-All Theologians
What's the news? That we don't know much about God. Not really, not compared to what there is, not compared to what...
A Prayer for the New Year
A Prayer for the New Year
Firmly believing that my times are in God's hand, I here submit myself and all my affairs for the ensuing year, to the wise and gracious disposal of God's divine providence.
How to Die
How to Die
Now Jesus is on His cruel death bed, and departing out of this world, leaves us an example of how to die.
Jim Elliot Was Always Reading
Jim Elliot Was Always Reading
A big personal part of that adventure for Jim was that he was always reading; at least, the evidence is there that this was true.
Conrad Murrell: The Passing of One Valiant for Truth
Conrad Murrell: The Passing of One Valiant for Truth
The passing of a man of God always brings special memories and attention to those who knew that man. With some of God's servants, it really can be called the end...
2018 Fellowship Conference New England
2018 Fellowship Conference New England
The saints at Redeeming Grace Fellowship in Portland, Maine are organizing another conference this year. The Fellowship Conference New England will be held on August 2-4, 2018. "Each year there is Biblical preaching a...
2019 Fellowship Conference New England
2019 Fellowship Conference New England
The Fellowship Conference New England will be held on August 1-3, 2019. "Each year there is Biblical preaching and teaching...
Is The Lord Calling Me to Foreign Missions?
Is The Lord Calling Me to Foreign Missions?
If you can have this unwavering conviction, my dear brethren, that God requires you to go as missionaries to the heathen, go. But do not go without it.
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...
Does Disaster Come to a City Unless the LORD Has Done It?
Does Disaster Come to a City Unless the LORD Has Done It?
Amos 3:6, “Is a trumpet blown in a city and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city unless the LORD has done it?”
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...
Counsel For Those Contemplating A Missionary Life
Counsel For Those Contemplating A Missionary Life
You are contemplating a missionary life. Let it be a missionary life; that is, come out for life, and not for a limited term. Do not fancy that you have a true missionary spirit...