PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “SIN: Refine Our Sins or Remove Them?” In the First Epistle of John, the Aged Apostle is writing to his little children in the faith, seeking to teach them to experience the Word of Life, just as he and the other Apostles did during “the days of His flesh”. He encourages them…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “LAST DAY FAITH-LASTING OR LAPSING?” I remember hearing Adrian Rogers, who passed away in November 2005, said in a sermon, “In the last days people will be deserting the Church like rats deserting a sinking ship!” He was basing it on what Paul said in I Timothy 4:1 “The Spirit expressly says, in…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “ETERNAL LIFE: FROM GRACE TO GLORY”- The message of the First Epistle of John “Suppose we hear an unknown man spoken of by many men. Suppose we were puzzled to hear that some men said he was too tall and some too short; some objected to his fatness, some lamented his leanness;…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “A Great Like for a Dark Continent” In his book Spiritual Leadership, Oswald Sanders writes, “In the Scriptures, God is frequently represented as searching for a man of a certain type. Not men, but a man. Not a group, but an individual. When God does discover a man, who conforms to His…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “FINGERTIP MEMORIES OF THE GRAVEN IMAGE OF HIS DEAR FACE, AND OF HIS MARVELOUS VOICE” Helen Keller was 14 years old when she first met the world-famous Mark Twain in 1894. They became fast friends. He helped arrange for her to go to college at Radcliffe where she graduated in 1904, the…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “WHAT SHALL THIS MAN DO?” Back in 1971 I was a student at Missouri Baptist College of Hannibal, Missouri. We had a group of students that were seeking for the deeper Christian life. They began to have weekly fellowship groups that were reading and discussing the teachings of a Chinese Pastor by…