Being Perfected by the Spirit
Being Perfected by the Spirit
As you seek to be perfected by the Spirit, you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Believer, You’re Loved by God!
Believer, You’re Loved by God!
If I could pray one thing for you, I mean above everything else, if you are truly a child of God, if I could give you one gift – it would be that you would comprehend...
Believer: You’re Dead to Sin (Part 3)
Believer: You’re Dead to Sin (Part 3)
What truth is it that Paul wants us to be gripped by? That we are dead to sin and that in our union with Christ our relationship to sin has been severed...
Believers Are In Christ
Believers Are In Christ
It's very easy to read past the words, "in Christ", as they are all over the New Testament. Yet if we can really get a feel for how prominent this idea...
Believers Who Go to Heaven – What Do They Look Like?
Believers Who Go to Heaven – What Do They Look Like?
Believers who go to heaven? How can you know you are a believer who goes to heaven?
Biblical Points on Being a Godly Parent
Biblical Points on Being a Godly Parent
1. Children are a great blessing, Psa 127.5, 128.4 2. Children are not always a blessing, 1 Kg 1.6 3. The child's self-will must be broken, Pro 29:15 4. Reprove firmly; mean what you say, 1 Sam 2:23, 3.13; and more points.
Biblical Tests of True Faith
Biblical Tests of True Faith
It would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it would be for someone to pass through to heaven with a shred of self-righteousness upon them.
Blessed Are Those Who Die In the Lord
Blessed Are Those Who Die In the Lord
And I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on." "Blessed indeed," says the Spirit...
Bob Jennings’ Funeral
Bob Jennings’ Funeral
This is the entire funeral service of Bob Jennings (January 2, 1949 - November 6, 2012) apart from the songs that were song and the graveside burial.
Busyness Leads to God Hiding Himself?
Busyness Leads to God Hiding Himself?
At times when someone asks, "How do I deal with the hiddenness of God?" it is not God hiding Himself from us, but our own sin or busyness and neglect of the Lord that is the problem.
By Faith the People Crossed the Red Sea
By Faith the People Crossed the Red Sea
By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned. - Hebrews 11:29
Cain or Christ: Hatred or Love
Cain or Christ: Hatred or Love
It's easy to say, "I'm not like Cain, I didn't put a knife in my brother." However, hatred is more subtle than sticking a knife in your brother.
Can You Pass the Test of Faith With Your Money
Can You Pass the Test of Faith With Your Money
To resist the love of money is to resist the love of the things that money can get you and what those things promise you.
Children: Jesus is the Anchor of the Soul
Children: Jesus is the Anchor of the Soul
This is one of the lessons from our Children's vacation bible school. Christ alone is the Anchor of the soul that will save you from the storm...
Chosen to Stand Before God
Chosen to Stand Before God
Man lost the greatest of all his privileges: beholding the face of God. Man’s sin hid the greatest Treasure of all from us. Man has been put out of...
Christ is the Absolute Owner of Everything
Christ is the Absolute Owner of Everything
Christ... is the absolute owner. Go out to your car this afternoon and you just stop in your tracks and look at it and you recognize that's His.
Christ the Destroyer
Christ the Destroyer
1 John 3:8 says, "The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil."
Christ The True Vine (Part 1)
Christ The True Vine (Part 1)
We come to Jesus Christ alone, and look to His finished work alone, to be received by faith alone, regarding our right standing. But we don't move on from Jesus to begin to live the Christian life and bear much fruit....
Christ Wants You Either Hot or Cold
Christ Wants You Either Hot or Cold
If Christ is better than the things of the world, then go after Him with abandon, be sold out for Christ.
Christ Will Always Be There For Me
Christ Will Always Be There For Me
Jesus Christ will always be there for us, even in our worst day He will not defect from us but He will stand for us.
Christ, The True Vine
Christ, The True Vine
John 15:5 - I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
Christian Stewardship When Buying a Car
Christian Stewardship When Buying a Car
Tim gives some counsel to young people about how to best use the money God has given them when buying a car.
Christian, Are You Refusing God?
Christian, Are You Refusing God?
Refusing God is not always an outright defiance like Pharaoh saying "Who is the Lord that I should obey Him?"
Christian, Don’t Sin
Christian, Don’t Sin
1 John 2:1 shows us that what is normative for the Christian is that they don't sin.
Christian, Love Your Lost Family
Christian, Love Your Lost Family
Christian love does not undervalue or disregard natural family ties with lost family members.
Christian: You Can Fight Sin Because You’re New!
Christian: You Can Fight Sin Because You’re New!
I need a new heart. And I got news you for you: I have one! God made me new. He saved me. He took my heart...
Christians Are Not Debtors to the Flesh
Christians Are Not Debtors to the Flesh
What does it mean to be a debtor to the flesh? To be a debtor to somebody means you owe them something.
Christians Confess Sin (1 John 1:9)
Christians Confess Sin (1 John 1:9)
Confessing of sin is an evidence of someone who is in the light and has fellowship with God.
Christians Share The Very Life of God
Christians Share The Very Life of God
There is only one explanation of why a person has any family resemblance to Jesus Christ; it is because they have been born of God.
Church Leaders Casually Texting Single Sisters?
Church Leaders Casually Texting Single Sisters?
Is it OK for married brothers in leadership positions to be casually texting or emailing single sisters?
Complementarianism and Egalitarianism
Complementarianism and Egalitarianism
Complementarianism and egalitarianism deal with whether or not men and women are equal in their God given roles.
Conrad Murrell’s Funeral: Forever With the Lord
Conrad Murrell’s Funeral: Forever With the Lord
"Forever with the Lord" is a video of pastor Conrad Murrell's Funeral. Those were Conrad's words about his father Alvin when he passed in 1971.
Consider Others in Order to Stir Them Up
Consider Others in Order to Stir Them Up
If you are thinking about ways you can specifically help and encourage others then this is a tremendous measure of maturity.
Continue Steadfastly in Prayer
Continue Steadfastly in Prayer
How much do I really believe that without Him I can do nothing? Here is the answer: I believe it to the degree that I continue steadfastly in prayer.
Cussing Christians?
Cussing Christians?
Is it OK for professing Christians to use curse words or listen to music with profanity in it?
D.E. Hoste: Soldier and Humble Prayer Warrior for Christ
D.E. Hoste: Soldier and Humble Prayer Warrior for Christ
D.E. Hoste (1861-1946) succeeded Hudson Taylor as the General Director of the China Inland Mission. He lived as a devoted soldier of the Lord Jesus and had a passion to win souls for Christ.
Dangerous Prayer
Dangerous Prayer
Paul said, "The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet." One of the ways this happens is by us trusting the LORD in prayer and praying in a way that is dangerous to the devil.
Defensive People Are Prideful
Defensive People Are Prideful
Defensiveness if a sign of pride and immaturity.
Deliberate Holiness (Psalm 119:57)
Deliberate Holiness (Psalm 119:57)
David's attitude of deliberate holiness is impressive and something we should imitate. He is purposeful in his pursuit of holiness when he says in Psalm 119, “I promise to keep your words.”
Destroyed for Lack of Knowledge
Destroyed for Lack of Knowledge
So we must know our Bible's so that it won't be said of us “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge;"