Archive for May, 2008
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Don’t Attempt to Minister Without Grace
Evangelism is not about making a sales pitch and getting someone to repeat a prayer they don’t understand. If that’s all we do, then we’re merely innoculating people against the Gospel and increasing the danger that their soul will be lost for all eternity.
True evangelism is about multiplying after our own kind. Like it or […]
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Fake Grace - Real Grace
Real Grace provides emancipation from sin.
Fake Grace provides defense of sin, license for sin, excuses for sin, false comfort for sin, tolerance for sin, agreement with sin, provisions for sin.
John 3:16 does not say, “For God so loved sin that He gave his only begotten Son so that whosoever believes Jesus exists should not perish […]
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
It’s Not a Business — It’s a Ministry
The Bible tells us to do our work as unto the Lord. Matthew tells us about the Lord dividing the sheep from the goats or the faithful from the unfaithful and saying, “Inasmuch as you have done it to the least of the brethren, you have done it unto Me.”
I have nothing against those who the […]
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
John said, “It is unlawful for you to have your brother’s wife”
John the Baptist said to Herod, “it is unlawful for you to have your brother’s wife”.
Was John unreasonable or unfair? Was John only speaking to the generation of his day? To listen to some lukewarm and cowardly churches today one would think so. “How intolerant!” “Didn’t John ever read Deuteronomy 24:1-4?” “And who did Jesus […]
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
God’s Command - Let the little children come unto Me
Jesus said, “Let the little children come unto me… for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these… Then he took the children up in his arms and placed his hands on their heads and he blessed them. Mark 10:14-16
If Jesus commanded this, can a grouch who chases children away be a real Christian?
Who is […]
