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Front page news on the Sunday paper (Sunday Tribune – South Africa) this week was that a prominent South African politician was made a pastor by a group of independent Charismatic churches this past Saturday. Most of the readers would respond with “so what”. Well, this man was never trained for the ... Read More

“All the acts of the Word are word and doctrine”. This rule must ever be kept in mind as the four gospels are studied and especially so in the case of John’s Gospel. The Lord moves from Judea and departs into Galilee and “must needs” pass through Samaria. The cause of this journey was the reputation... Read More

"God is going to take over the White House… He is going to take over the Oval Office… because it belongs to Him and He is going to bring all things summed up into the fullness of Christ. He is going to take that Supreme Court. He is going to turn that inside out. He is going to pray that strong man ... Read More

But the flesh manifests itself in Christians, and the more so if their number be large. Now we find a new event happening; in the multitude the power of faith and the fruits of the Spirit begin to grow feebler. Love and confidence - love's constant companion - diminish; but at the same time the stre... Read More

Genesis has a character of its own; and, as the beginning of the Holy Book, presents to us all the great elementary principles which find their development in the history of the relationships of God with man, which is recorded in the following books. The germ of each of these principles will be foun... Read More

1. The advantages of such a surrender are briefly suggested.-- 2, 3, 4. Advice for the manner of doing it; that it be deliberate, cheerful, entire, perpetual.--5. And that it be expressed with some affecting solemnity.--6. A written instrument to be signed and declared before God, at some season of ... Read More

Abraham, My Friend The Making of a Praying Man Chapter Three: Entering the land Shechem Time to move on, I think. It is one thing to come out, but quite another to enter in. Later in Israel’s history there was a whole generation that came out, but never entered in. God’s intention is always to bring... Read More

Abraham, My Friend The Making of a Praying Man Chapter Three: Entering the land Still calling… Let’s linger a while on this theme of calling on the name of the Lord. Do you call on the name of the Lord? Notice, I didn’t ask ‘did you’ but ‘do you’. We’ll take a look at this as the ongoing process rat... Read More

"Choose you this day" (Joshua 24:15). Israel faced a crisis. A choice had to be made. The prophet cried out for immediate decision. "Choose you this day," he exhorted. History does repeat itself. Centuries have passed since Israel was confronted by the crisis of the text but humanity again faces the... Read More

Saints Saved with Difficulty; and the Certain Perdition of the Wicked A funeral sermon by Samuel Davies, August 21, 1756 "For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us—what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God? And if it is hard for ... Read More