Today Is The Day For Change

The change didn’t stop. As everyone received this new fire for Jesus, they began reaching out to people they haven’t spoke to in a long time. Some even reached out to people they didn’t know. Lives were being touched in the process. I don’t think my son knew that his decision that day to let Jesus become his Lord and Savior would make that big of impact on the people around him. I didn’t know either.

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THE SINNER SAVED BY GRACE

The plan of salvation began way back… in heaven. Man was made in the image of GOD. His corruption would mean a corrupted image; a corrupted image would mean a corrupted object_ a corrupted GOD! But GOD is not at all corrupted; HE is without sin, in HIM there is no darkness at all. There had to be image swapping; there had to be a substitute_ there had to be a perfectionist! There had to be the incorruptible that corruption may be overcome. And that was the incorruptible seed: JESUS CHRIST.

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Textual Criticism and Exegesis of the Gospel of Matthew

“ELIAKIM”
There are 2 Eliakim’s; one is a son of Hilkiah (Cp. II Kings 18: 18) and the other Eliakim is the king of Judah, whose name was changed to “Jehoiakim” by Necho king of Egypt (Cp. II Chronicles 36: 4).

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Romans 4:25

Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

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Homily, Let us Speak of Holiness this morning: Bernard of Clairvaux

A Cistercian Monk, Bernard, is considered in this manner by our readings today, reflecting the three-fold manner of his character and relationship with God and man. He died at Clairvaux, 21 August, 1153:

Bernard is wise, with the wisdom of God.

Bernard is Holy, with a Holiness of God.

Bernard is friend of God, as the New Testament tells us of friendship with God.

This is the way to abide in God.

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The Value of Studying Bible Prophecy

Amazingly, throughout that year, several gullible Christians depleted thousands of their hard earned cash on these survival kits that they would never need. Sadly, these preachers are not in prison for racketeering, rather they persist in preaching on the same stations toward the same naive audiences.

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Five Fold Ministry and Isaiah 28:23-29

God loves diversity. Every seed and plant is different, just as people are different. Every single seed, plant, vegetable, fruit, tree, vine, and person has a unique quality. I truly believe that is why there are so many differences in preaching and teaching techniques. What reaches one heart and mind may not penetrate another. It doesn’t necessarily make one right and one wrong, just different. Now when it comes to preaching or teaching God’s Word, it must align with the Bible or it is false doctrine. False doctrine, deceit, lies, and manipulation is absolutely intolerable and abominable.

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One True God

Jer. 10:1-16 The gods that men create from wood or gold or silver are just that; dead wood, shiny gold, or polished silver. No matter how fancy or breath taking beautiful, they are dead, they cannot speak, they cannot walk, they have to be carried, in judgments fire, they become nothing but ashes. You cannot mix their teachings with those of Christ and think it is Christian; it is nothing but nonsense, a bunch of lies.

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Can You Dig It?

That change has a definite beginning, and then grows in fits and starts. This change is always personal — it always effects personal values, beliefs and behavior. And a personal relationship with Jesus Christ necessarily means a covenantal relationship because God always relates to His people covenantally.

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Homily, She has always spoken to my heart, Mary Magdalene

So frequently, the merit and worth of Mary Magdalene has been her controversy in the Church. That is the popular conception. After all, how widely spread is the belief she was married to Jesus. An unlikely reality, by most Biblical and Gospel measure: One sermon writer says:

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2 Samuel 21:19

By Don Costello
2 Samuel 21:19
And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
a. 2 Samuel 21:19 [Amplified Bible] There was again war at Gob with the Philistines; and [...]

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Special Report: 50th Anniversary of Baptist Seminary in retrospective — celebration Spring, 2009

By Peter Menkin

The 50th Anniversary of the Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary (Mill Valley, California) celebrated this last part of Spring, 2009, ushered in memories and celebration of a Homecoming on the Mill Valley, Campus.

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The Hope Of Glory

God had given Israel a hope. He had given them an expectation that was for a future time. He declared it to them in ceremonies, feasts, offerings and by the prophets. Their lives were in expectation of something to come. So when THE TIME came and God finally spoke in His Son summing up in Him their hope (Heb. 1:1-2), most of them rejected Him.

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Do you have to be Baptized to be saved?

Now when they heard this [the gospel], they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brethren, what shall we do [to be saved]?” And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins (Cp. 3: 16); and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

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Acts 11:20

1). The Book of Acts, Stanley M. Horton, p140, Note 4.: “Many ancient manuscripts have the word here for “Greek speakers” which is sometimes used for Greek speaking Jews, but in the context it clearly means Greek-speaking Gentiles.”

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