There are many voices today decrying the Church of Jesus Christ. They tell us that she is outdated. Irrelevant. Impotent. Unneccesary. The focus basically is-you can be a Christian. You can love the Lord. You can live for Him in the world today-but you don’t need, nor will you likely get any help from the…
During the 1970s the Southern Baptist Convention found itself facing a crisis that had divided every other major protestant denomination. The Presbyterians, the Methodists, and the latest had been the Lutherans with nearly half of the denomination breaking away to form the Lutheran Church of America Missouri Synod anew group that held tenatiously to the old…
The great Puritan Preacher Richard Baxter (1615-1691) wrote “One proud lordly word, one needless contention … may blast the fruit of all you are doing“. We live in a day and age when many have chosen, for reasons unspoken, to be militantly anti-Christian. I know that today we Christians face opposition from all fronts – New Agers; Militant…
Exodus 20:21 “And the LORD said to Moses Go down and warn the people, lest they cross the barrier, breakthrough unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.” Hebrews 12:29 “Our God is a consuming fire!” C.S. Lewis, in his Narnia literature, has Lucy discussing Aslan, the lion, with beaver. Lucy asks, “Is he…
When you ride on an Amtrak train, listening to those wheels running over those rails did you ever think about how wide those rails are apart? And why? Those rails are exactly 4′ 81/2″ wide. Everywhere you go in America the railroad tracks are 4′ 81/2″ wide. Why? That’s the way they were built in…
Original Thoughts: Devotions from the Original Languages April 14, 2008 Scriptures: II Tim. 3:16-17; Mark 4;14 The Bible – carefully read and well-worn, was the most important book in Gerrit’s house. His home was a house of prayer, where many tears were shed for revival in his Church at Heemstede, Holland. Almost a generation later, his…