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I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes. Romans 1:16 Recommend Reading Romans 10:8-13 The word "salvation" appears 162 times in the Bible (NKJV). In both the Old and the New Testaments, it conveys the idea of being saved from a terrible…

David Woodhouse of Truro, Cornwall, told the BBC that he made his initial request to see a dentist in mid-2017 after complaining about tooth pain. After waiting more than 18 months to see a dentist, a 62-year-old British man opted to pull his own tooth. Using his own needle nose pliers he tried to ease…

Three top contenders in the Bangalore Marathon were following their guide car when the car missed a turn and led the runners 2.5 miles in the wrong direction. “The runners discovered the mistake, which occurred about 9 miles into the 13.1-mile half marathon, only when the race crowd thinned and they…

There are a lot of ways to be saved, but there is only one way to salvation. Amy Stiner, 37, of Machias, Maine, who was five months pregnant, and her friend Melissa Moyer, 38, of Sunbury, Pa., became lost while hiking. The Maine Warden Service rescued them and returned them to their vehicle which they…

The words to the old hymn “I was sinking deep in sin, far from the peaceful shore,” became more than just a song to Michael Trapp after the engine failed on his Cessna 150. The plane plunged into Lake Huron seventeen miles off shore and promptly sank to the bottom with his emergency beacon and life jacket…

SALVATION Three Englishmen decided to sail across the English Channel on their 7-foot dinghy. After an 11-hour struggle, they were “rescued” from their adventure. They thought they had reached France. Actually, they were only two miles from where they had started. They really believed they were in France.…

A recent survey conducted by the Pew organization shocked many believers by announcing that nearly six in ten evangelicals agreed with the idea that religions other than their own could lead to eternal life. To clarify things Lifeway Research reworded the question, and coupled it with a more precise…

The Only Way! Jesus is the Bridge! Are you standing before a sea of depression, a terrible river of despair? Jesus is the Bridge! To you does God seem to be somewhere unreachable? Is his love across a canyon of gloom? Do you wake up nights fearing for your life or for your soul? Jesus is the Bridge to…

A survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life discovered that many people who call themselves Christian also have practices considered New Age or Cultic. Pew says “two in three adults believe in or cite an experience with at least one supernatural phenomenon” These include: 26% who find ‘spiritual…

RELEVANCE/COMMITMENT Research conducted by the Evangelical Alliance Ireland has found that many new churches have sprung up in the Dublin area over the past 25 years. The research found 130 churches operating in the area. Only 37% of them existed in 1980, and 25% of those churches started within the…

NAME The clerk at a German gas station recently helped police arrested the man who stole his identity and used his credit card. The thief attempted to buy $90 worth of items at the gas station. When he handed the clerk a credit card, the clerk saw that the name on the card was his own. He locked the…

Here is a list of "Murphy's Laws for Churches" (author unknown): Video projectors always work before the class meeting begins. The probability of the preacher tripping over the mike cord is greater on "Bring A Friend" Sunday than any other week. The largest Bible Class will show up when the teacher feels…

Advent of Christ, the First A. Announced in the Old Testament by: Moses Deut. 18:18, 19 Samuel Acts 3:24 David Ps. 40:6–8; Heb. 10:5–8 Prophets Luke 24:26, 27 B. Prophecies fulfilled by his: Birth Is. 7:14; Matt. 1:23 Forerunner Mal. 3:1, 2; Matt. 3:1–3 Incarnation Is. 9:6 Time of arrival Dan. 9:24,…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…

Memorization John 7:18 He who speaks on his own does so to gain honor for himself, but he who works for the honor of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him. -Sincerity is a very noble character. But a person can be sincerely very wrong Ravi -Never judge a philosophy…