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Great Needs
We don’t like to admit this…but we are needy. We are a needy people. There are four great needs for mankind. They are forgiveness, truth, love, and strength. In addition, we each have physical, emotional and spiritual needs. The richest people typically have no problems with physical needs. They’re physical needs are often met by their wealth. However, they like us often have emotional and spiritual needs that can’t be met by wealth. We all need things money cannot buy.…
Good news! God is still in control! Though the storms in our life may seem overwhelming, God is walking on the water towards us. When the hurts of our bodies brings, us to despair God’s hand is reaching out for us. He is there watching over us in each and every circumstance. As we live our lives for Christ, there may be times when we not only feel isolated, we are isolated from those we love, from our church, from…
Worry Wart
I have a natural tendency to worry. An old expression for a person who worries a lot is… “you’re a worry wart.” I have to fight it with prayer and faith. My Mom is a worrier and I suspect I got it naturally from her. The Bible tells us not to worry. In Matthew 6, Jesus says “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your…
Heaven
Heaven. Just saying the word conjures up so many different images and thoughts for each one of us. It is difficult for us to grasp what heaven will be like. I wonder if we talk about it enough. Too often I am afraid that the main time it is discussed is at a funeral or in sharing the salvation plan. Maybe in so doing we have diminished heaven’s glory on this earth. Heaven is more than a place to meet…
Sharing The Gospel
Last week, Emmanuel held revival services. Andy Harrison did a great job of discipleship with his messages from Titus. On the last night, he challenged us to share the Gospel and then he shared the Gospel with those in attendance. Decisions were made that night for Jesus Christ. In Gregory Koukl’s book, Tactics: A Game Plan For Discussing Your Christian Convictions, he suggests eight ideas to remove obstacles that get in the way of us sharing the Gospel. Greg suggests…
Titus
It has been good to study the words of Paul to Titus this week in our revival. Titus was a true friend of Paul, one that Paul had the joy of leading to Christ and then watch him grow in his faith to the point of being a trusted friend and communicator of the Gospel to all people. The words with which Paul instructed Titus ring true today. In chapter 2 v. 11-12 Paul writes “For the grace of God…
Before God
What is it to come before the Lord? Do we come before Him with false humility? Do we purposefully think in our minds that we are to be submissive to God and let Him control our thought and desires? Do we come with thankfulness and joy? With repentant tears and a broken heart for the sinful way which we have acted or thought? When we come before God it is with intentionality and thought. It is not out of a…
God Satisfies
This Sunday, we start our revival. I want to encourage you to attend as many of the services as possible. Revival is a time to saturate ourselves with God. I have found that many of us, most of the time, are never satisfied. That is something we can work on! Philippians 4:19 says “And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Phil. 4:19). We need to be reminded of that! A…
Sanctity Of Life
Yesterday we observed Sanctity Of Life day. A time when we take a moment to publicly say and affirm that all life is precious and of value. This is so true and those are words we need to hear over and over again. It is easy to get caught up in the issues of the day and miss what we think of as the obvious. Recently it was pointed out to me that one can be anti- abortion and not…
Our Father
We have all heard preaching on the story of the prodigal son. Revival preachers and evangelists love to preach the story. The story preaches at least three ways…from the prodigal son’s, the other brother’s, and the father’s points of view. The father’s point of view tells us a lot about God. The father in the story had open hands. He was wise enough to know that to keep his children, he had to let them go, to give them the…