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If you have been in a piano factory, did you go there for the sake of music? Go into the tuning room, and you will say, “This is a dreadful place to be in; I cannot bear it; I thought you made music here.” They say, “No, we do not produce music here. We make the instruments, and tune them here, and in…

I would compare faith to an emperor who summoned his counselors and judged whether he should go to war by their opinion, but he did it in the following manner: if they warned him that it would be a very fearful war, if they said that the enemy’s cities would never be taken, that the armies on the other…

Just as we sometimes see a strong and healthy person growing pale and wan, losing appetite and falling into sickness until he becomes a mere skeleton because a general sapping and undermining of the constitution has come upon him, so have I seen it with Christians. They do not lose life, but they do…

God sometimes gives His people fresh promises by faith just before a trial is about to come upon them. It was so with Elijah. God said to him, “Go to the Wadi Kerith; I have commanded the crows to sustain you there” (1 Kings 17:4). This was at the beginning of the famine. There he stayed, and God fulfilled…

Carrie DeKlyen, a 37-year-old Wyoming mom went to the doctor complaining of headaches. Doctors diagnosed Carrie with a dangerous malignant brain tumor. He told her of a clinical trial for a new treatment that she qualified for that might allow her to live another 10-15 years. The results of blood tests…

I do not know how blessed Christians in Iraq feel right now, but they are enduring a tremendous time of persecution. During Mass at Baghdad’s Our Lady of Salvation Church, five or six gunmen burst into the building and set off two suicide vests filled with ball bearings. “The remaining gunmen took some…

Ecologists have long wondered what keeps elephants from devastating the trees. They love to eat trees and a herd can quickly ravage a small forest. The answer is ants! When ants inhabit the trees and the elephants began to eat them, the ants swarm into the animals’ tender trunks and bite and sting. The…

November 25, 2002 Bonnie entered our lives like a whirlwind. Gary, a friend of Ryan, my oldest son, moved in with us in the winter of 1997. A Brit by birth he spoke with an English accent and a sparkle in his eyes. But that sparkle glistened when he spoke of Bonnie. Finally, we met her. What a smile!…

An optometrist in British Columbia has invented a surgically implantable bionic lens that could give patients perfect vision and make glasses, contact lenses, and laser surgery obsolete. Replacing your eye lens with this lens would take about eight minutes and your eyesight would not only improve at…

Misplaced Faith In April 1988 the evening news reported on a photographer who was a skydiver. He had jumped from a plane along with numerous other skydivers and filmed the group as they fell and opened their parachutes. On the film shown on the telecast, as the final skydiver opened his chute, the picture…

*ILLUSTRATION: In the 1940s, Samuel Beckett wrote a play called Waiting for Godot, which is now regarded as a classic. Two men stand on an empty stage, hands in their pockets, staring at each other. All they do is stand and stare. There is no action, no plot, they just stand there waiting for Godot to…

“I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done. God’s work is not man working for God; it is God’s own work, though often wrought through man’s hands.” Source: Baptist Vision, January 2009.

Be faithful in the small things for you never know when God will require more of you. As a nation, America has a rich history. This country was founded by men who believed God’s Word, many of whom were ostracized and even persecuted for their roll in founding America. Of the fifty-six men who signed…

"I would recommend you either believe God up to the hilt, or elso not to believe at all. Believe this book of God, every letter of it, or else reject it. There is no logical standing place between the two. Be satisfied with nothing less than a faith that swims in the deeps of divine revelation; a faith…

What if you lived each day with faith in Christ? During periods of great change, answers do not last very long but a question is worth a lot. The word question is derived from the Latin quaerere (to seek), which is the same root as the word quest. Jon Collins of Stanford's Graduate School of Business…

Unknown Author These are more effective than 911 When - You are sad, phone John 14 You have sinned, phone Psalm 51 You are facing danger, phone Psalm 91 People have failed you, phone Psalm 27 It feels as though God is far from you, phone Psalm 139 Your faith needs stimulation, phone Hebrews 11 You are…

Faith in antagonism to common sense is fanaticism, and common sense in antagonism to faith is rationalism. The life of faith brings the two into a right relation. . . Faith is the whole man rightly related to God by the power of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Chambers, O. (1993, c1935). My utmost for his…

| In my experience, signs follow decisions. The way you overcome spiritual inertia and produce spiritual momentum is by making tough decisions. And the tougher the decision, the more potential momentum it will produce. The primary reason most of us don't see God moving is simply because we aren't moving.…

FAITH Norman Geisler said, "God doesn't ask us to take a blind leap of faith into the darkness - He asks us to take a step of faith into the Light."

When a man says he can’t keep awake through a thirty-minute sermon, and stays home with his 700-column newspaper, whom is he kidding? When a man says Sunday is his only day to rest, and gets up at 4:30 a.m. to go fishing, or spends the day on a golf course, whom is he kidding? When a man says church…

His was a rags to riches story. One day he was a slave, the next day he was a Prince. As an infant, he was placed in the Kings care and everything he ever thought about wanting was his. But there was a calling on his life. From the day he became aware of anything, his mother taught him that he was not…

Walt In 1976, Walt Arnold' s ministry was featured at the Southern Baptist Convention in Norfolk, Virginia. No, Arnold wasn't a preacher. Far from it. He was a Rodeo Cowboy-as close a thing to a celebrity we had in Silverton, Texas. He was one of the finest horse trainers in the area, but his claim to…

A Aaron, ' = "light bringer" Aharown {a-har-one'} 1) brother of Moses, a Levite and the first high priest Aaron Aaron {ah-ar-ohn'}= "light-bringer" 1) the brother of Moses, the first high priest of Israel and head of the whole priestly order ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------…

John MacArthur Basisinformationen zur Bibel Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung Postfach 11 01 35 • 33661 Bielefeld Wenn nicht anders angegeben, sind die Bibelzitate der Schlachter 2000 entnommen. Abkürzungen weiterer Bibelausgaben: Elb.: Elberfelder Bibel, unrevidierte Fassung Lu 12: Lutherbibel von 1912…

Defining The Church I. Defining The Church Louis Berkoff - “The Church consists of those who are partakers of Christ and of the blessings of salvation that are in Him.” Wayne Grudem - “The church is the community of all true believers for all time.” A. Key Biblical Words 1. Hebrew - qahal - a gathering…