Monday, December 31, 2012
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Urgent Needs in Christ's Church Today
1. More knocking on doors of people's hearts and less knocking down each other. The great commission calls us to busy ourselves in taking the Gospel to others (Mark 16:15). The Bible says, "speak not evil one of another" (James 4:11). It is so much better to be busy doing good rather than evil.
2. More sound heads and fewer sore heads. Perhaps there has never been a time in the history of the church in which we have had a greater need for men sound in the faith and wise in judgment. Sometimes the voice of the wise goes unheeded and the voice of the foolish takes over. (1 Kings 12:6-8)
3. More open hearts and fewer open mouths. All conduct proceeds from the heart. Prejudice closes the heart to a true consideration of the facts. If the heart was made right before the mouth was opened, most church problems locally and universally would cease to exist. (James 3:5, 6; Proverbs 26:20)
4. More seed slinging and less mud slinging. The task of sowing the seed of the kingdom is so great that it should leave no time for the slinging of mud at a brother. The fact that we have the whole world as our foe should draw us closer together. (Proverbs 18:24) There should be no division in the Lord's camp (1 Corinthians 1:10). One can never whitewash himself by slinging mud at another. He who tries gets his own hands dirty.
5. More sacrifice of self and less sacrifice of others. There are plenty of members of the church who are willing to sacrifice their other fellow his talent, his time, his money, and even perhaps his reputation. Sacrifice should begin at home (Luke 9:23).
6. More concern over direction than speed. This is the jet, satellite and missile age. Speed is being enthroned and multitudes bow before it. But in the Lord's work, the greater question is not, "How fast are we traveling?", but rather, "Which way are we going?" (John 14:6; Matthew 7:13, 14). All speed is not progress. On the other hand, neither is standing still.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Friday, November 30, 2012
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Online Bible Studies
Ways the gospel is being spread throughout the world.
www.worldbibleschool.org
www.worldenglishinstitute.org
www.weiady.org/
http://bible-study.jordanpark.org/
World Bible School is a renown correspondence method of teaching, first by mail and now by the Internet. The Bible lessons begin with Jesus and appeal to those who already believe, Africa for example. Thousands have put on Christ because they are enrolled in WBS correspondence lessons.
World English Institute and Bible Correspondence School is like WBS with an appeal to non-believers. These lessons begin with the Creation story. WEI offers Free English to gather students. Along with solid grammar lessons, the reading assignment is Bible stories -- from Genesis through Acts followed by an Advanced series on the New Birth, New Life, and The Church. Today, WEI lessons are found on Google, and over 160,000 potential students have registered from every known nation in the world, all 206 nations. Over 28 churches have been planted. Hundreds have come to the Lord. This is likely the most effective evangelistic tool ever available. Face to face studies are being conducted in Short-Term-Missions every year using WEI's 26 lesson series. Followup preachers are being trained by the International Sunset School of Preaching, Lubbock, Texas as they have full courses of study in foreign countries. It is working!
www.worldbibleschool.org
www.worldenglishinstitute.org
www.weiady.org/
http://bible-study.jordanpark.org/
World Bible School is a renown correspondence method of teaching, first by mail and now by the Internet. The Bible lessons begin with Jesus and appeal to those who already believe, Africa for example. Thousands have put on Christ because they are enrolled in WBS correspondence lessons.
World English Institute and Bible Correspondence School is like WBS with an appeal to non-believers. These lessons begin with the Creation story. WEI offers Free English to gather students. Along with solid grammar lessons, the reading assignment is Bible stories -- from Genesis through Acts followed by an Advanced series on the New Birth, New Life, and The Church. Today, WEI lessons are found on Google, and over 160,000 potential students have registered from every known nation in the world, all 206 nations. Over 28 churches have been planted. Hundreds have come to the Lord. This is likely the most effective evangelistic tool ever available. Face to face studies are being conducted in Short-Term-Missions every year using WEI's 26 lesson series. Followup preachers are being trained by the International Sunset School of Preaching, Lubbock, Texas as they have full courses of study in foreign countries. It is working!
Monday, November 26, 2012
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Francis Chan: Are Your Beliefs Biblical? (Crazy Love Chapter 5)
The honest search for truth. Jesus is the Truth so we must really find him and not another person's version of it. This guys challenges all of us in a good way.
Kevin
Kevin
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Monday, September 3, 2012
Excuse Me, Are You Jesus?
As you read this think about what you would do!
A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in Chicago. They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night's dinner. In their rush, with tickets and briefcases, one of these salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table, which held a display of apples. Apples flew everywhere. Without stopping or looking back, they all managed to reach the plane in time for their nearly missed boarding. ALL BUT ONE!!! He paused, took a deep breath, got in touch with his feelings, and experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had been overturned.
A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in Chicago. They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night's dinner. In their rush, with tickets and briefcases, one of these salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table, which held a display of apples. Apples flew everywhere. Without stopping or looking back, they all managed to reach the plane in time for their nearly missed boarding. ALL BUT ONE!!! He paused, took a deep breath, got in touch with his feelings, and experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had been overturned.
He told his buddies to go on without him, waved good-bye, told one of them to call his wife when they arrived at their home destination and explain his taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal where the apples were all over the terminal floor.
He was glad he did.
The 16-year-old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time helplessly groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled about her, no one stopping and no one to care for her plight.
The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them back on the table and helped organize her display. As he did this, he noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised; these he set aside in another basket.
When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl, "Here, please take this $40 for the damage we did. Are you okay?" She nodded through her tears. He continued on with, "I hope we didn't spoil your day too badly."
As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out to him, "Mister...." He paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued, "Are you Jesus?"
He stopped in mid-stride, and he wondered. Then slowly he made his way to catch the later flight with that question burning and bouncing about in his soul: "Are you Jesus?" Do people mistake you for Jesus? That's our destiny, is it not? To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact with a world that is blind to His love, life and grace.
If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk and act as He would. Knowing Him is more than simply quoting Scripture and going to church. It's actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day.
You are the apple of His eye even though we, too, have been bruised by a fall. He stopped what He was doing and picked you and me up on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit.
The 16-year-old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time helplessly groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled about her, no one stopping and no one to care for her plight.
The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them back on the table and helped organize her display. As he did this, he noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised; these he set aside in another basket.
When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl, "Here, please take this $40 for the damage we did. Are you okay?" She nodded through her tears. He continued on with, "I hope we didn't spoil your day too badly."
As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out to him, "Mister...." He paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued, "Are you Jesus?"
He stopped in mid-stride, and he wondered. Then slowly he made his way to catch the later flight with that question burning and bouncing about in his soul: "Are you Jesus?" Do people mistake you for Jesus? That's our destiny, is it not? To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact with a world that is blind to His love, life and grace.
If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk and act as He would. Knowing Him is more than simply quoting Scripture and going to church. It's actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day.
You are the apple of His eye even though we, too, have been bruised by a fall. He stopped what He was doing and picked you and me up on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
‘The most compelling conversion story I’ve ever read’
Muscle and a Shovel, a powerful new book by Michael Shank, a faithful member and part-time gospel preacher in Metropolis, Ill.
For a review of the book, go to
http://brotherhoodnews.com/2012/06/28/the-most-compelling-conversion-story-ive-ever-read/
For a review of the book, go to
http://brotherhoodnews.com/2012/06/28/the-most-compelling-conversion-story-ive-ever-read/
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Sunday, March 18, 2012
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