And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness.  (2 Peter 1:5-6, KJV) If thou wouldest enjoy the eminent grace of the full assurance of faith, under the blessed Spirit’s influence, and assistance, do what the Scripture […]

Having spent much time in prayer over this, I’m convinced that the mainstream Christian community is approaching a crossroad. It is my firm conviction in the Lord that those of us in the Body of Christ need to begin to cry out to Him, as His Church, for His direction because it certainly seems that we have sought the […]

 If you neglect the Church, you neglect your soul. Your attitude towards the priority of a local church reveals much about the condition of your soul and whether you are really part of the body of Christ. One of the first signs of backsliding toward apostasy is neglecting meeting with the brethren faithfully. If you […]

I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God that cost me nothing. (2 Samuel 24:24b) An unknown author defined commitment by saying, “The difference between involvement and commitment is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast:  the chicken was involved – the pig was committed.” Commitment to the physical things of life is more obvious […]

We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. (Romans 15:1-2) You who have long been believers in the Lord Jesus, who have grown rich in experience, who know the love […]

We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks. Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.  You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. (Isaiah 26:1-3) Be you determined that if others do as they please, you […]

 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church. (Colossians 1:24) In this generation the common man of the day has an extremely low view of the church.  Men know little […]

If you and I have a broken and contrite heart, it means that frivolity and trifling have gone from us. There are some who are always trifling with spiritual things, but he who gets a broken heart has done with that sort of spirit. A broken heart is serious and solemn and in earnest. A […]

For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we […]