Next came the realization that God had given him a gift for preaching, and his church licensed him to do so. Lott ministered to a small black congregation for a time, and under his leadership, it grew to over eight hundred members. Lott began receiving invitations to preach all over Virgi...
Jesus calls us to love our enemies, and goes on to give crazy examples of this, that almost no-one would follow. We are reminded that God loved us even while we were his enemies, and that he even died for us. That takes loving to a whole new level of abnormality. Not easy! Let’...
I have this thing with Jesus where if He asks me to do something, my heart melts under the weight of His love. I find Him mostly irresistible. Often He calls me to do things my base personality probably would not run towards. Like the day I met John (not his real name). John was...
Jesus calls us to love our enemies, and goes on to give crazy examples of this, that almost no-one would follow. We are reminded that God loved us even while we were his enemies, and that he even died for us. That takes loving to a whole new level of abnormality. Not easy! Let’...
‘holy’, marking us as his beloved. Our model of patience, of course, is Jesus. Jesus lost His patience rarely and always with those who put man’sreligioustraditions above God’s purposes. Jesus turned over the tables in the temple because men were using God’s holy place to make ...
THE GOSPEL OF GOD CONCERNING HIS BELOVED SON: FURTHER STEPS ON A WELL-TRAVELED TEXTGARNER, DAVID B.Westminster Theological Journal
that his Gospel and the miracles of Jesus he recorded were “written that you may that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name” (John 20:31). Acts 2:21 promises, “And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of ...
“Beloved, God has never failed to act but in goodness and love. When all means fail-his love prevails. Hold fast to your faith. Stand fast in his Word. There is no other hope in this world.”– David Wilkerson “God loves all of us so much that we are given the choice in each...
God doesn’t count us; he calls us by name. Arithmetic is not his focus. Isaiah had looked ahead and spoken the truth: If our powerful God had not provided us a legacy of living children,We would have ended up like ghost towns, like Sodom and Gomorrah. How can we sum this up?
The good news is that Christ has promised to be with us as we respond to His calling—we will never walk alone. As someone once said, “God’s work, done in God’s way, will never lack God’s supply.” Let us make this year different from the last by dedicating ourselves to winni...