According To His Own Purpose And Grace Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but …
Continue reading The Word For Today; Friday, August 30, 2024
Christ Has Given Himself For Us Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among …
Continue reading The Word For Today; Saturday, August 24, 2024
According to the Power Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; …
Continue reading The Word For Today; Thursday, August 22, 2024
Began reading in First Corinthians and chapters 1 through 5. Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; …
Excerpt from reading chapter 5 through 8 in the book of Acts. Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation, and laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison. But the angel of the …
Continue reading Locked In, and Freed to Teach In the Temple
The following is from the pastor's reading of Luke 13 through 15. And there went great multitudes with Him: and He turned, and said unto them, "If any man come to Me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot …
In the kingdom of our Lord, no matter how old we get, there is still much work for us to do. There are still many souls without the redemption through the Lord Jesus Christ. There is disciple making, and teaching, and training to do for the glory of the Lord. Today's reading is Joshua 13 …
We hope you had a great and blessed Thanksgiving Day with friends and loved ones. Today's reading is 1 Corinthians 2 through 4. Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. …
Reading the word of the LORD is important for knowing and doing the will of God, and doing it. Join with us in our daily reading which, for today is Nehemiah 6 through 8. And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the …
But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you: therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith: for now …
Continue reading The Lord make you to increase and abound in love…
Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: but I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us …
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not …
Then He called His twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases. And He sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick. And He said unto them, "Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have …
It has been said that the best way to identify a counterfeit is to really know the real thing. It has been told to me by one who has experience as a teller that banks train them to get the feel for the real paper money, and when a counterfeit passes through their fingers it …
Continue reading Day Eighty Eight – Being A Discerning Christian
"Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh; and an High Priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, …
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