“To live is Christ, and to die is gain”Philippians 1:21
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"For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would the…
Read message"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not [love], I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; an…
Read message“Open rebuke is better than secret love” (Prov. 27:5). I suppose if one verse in the Bible could say the most about what this current generation of ‘Christians’ need to learn, it is this one. If you expect to go anywhere…
Read message"Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for…
Read message“Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a mom…
Read message“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have b…
Read message“Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness,…
Read messageI Can't get very far away from this topic because I'm continually hearing someone equate being a sinner with being a follower of Christ. In fact it is often done with a good bit of pride and gusto, as if it's a good thin…
Read messageAnything that you are in need of from God, you can get. You don’t have to be in any set circumstances that you might feel that you need to be in, in order to obtain what you need from him. All you need is to have faith i…
Read message“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were fro…
Read message“Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain; so the Lord shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field” (Zech. 10:1). “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I wi…
Read message“And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God [seed of Seth] saw the daughters of men [seed of Cain] that they were fair; and they took…
Read messageI think often on the account of Jacob going to Egypt to see Joseph, the son he thought to be dead for twenty years; and especially how Joseph brought Jacob before Pharaoh: "And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set…
Read message“Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor coveto…
Read messageI’m thinking about a line in one of my son’s songs that I just listened to: “Spending every moment trying to forget that their running out of time.” Sadly this is exactly what almost everyone is doing with their lives. T…
Read messageIn much of my preaching through the years I have called the Gospel that God has given us through his Son Jesus Christ, 'the Gospel of the heart.' Let me explain what I mean by that. First of all it is the heart that beli…
Read message“John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins… And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop do…
Read message“He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man. The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy” (Psm. 147:10,11). This is a really significan…
Read messageMy post today is a copy of an email that I just sent to someone that I've been corresponding with recently about receiving the holy Ghost, and about water baptism. I'm copying three questions that he asked in his most re…
Read messageEverybody wants to know that someone truly cares about them. Without that knowledge people can find themselves with little to nothing to hope for. I’ll never forget hearing the account of the story about a former prize f…
Read message“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asu…
Read messageI suppose everyone likes to hear something good about themselves once in a while, but one must be cautious about what he hears and what he allows to be said about himself. There is a time to encourage someone by telling…
Read messageI thank God for Jesus today. I'm thankful that God truly did and does "so love the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (Jn. 3:17). That…
Read messageNeed some conviction of the holy Ghost? This one never fails. People need to learn to believe more, pray more, talk less, type less, text less, and think less. If God’s people would spend a fourth of the time in prayer t…
Read message"If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, do…
Read message“As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my meat day and night, while t…
Read messageA lot of people in Christianity talk about being wary of cults, and a lot of people have opinions about what makes a religious group a cult. I’ve seen the term ‘cult’ applied to just about everything from truly righteous…
Read message“The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very grea…
Read message"Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf…
Read message“Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? Thou hast planted…
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