For a good portion of my life, I have heard this statement. It has been used for years in alter calls and evangelism, and is even the title of a worship song (if that’s what they call it) or two. But, the problem is, nowhere in the Bible is the “Come just as you…
Genesis 1:24-25, 24 And God said (bara=something from nothing), “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. 25 And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their…
Colossians 3:1-3, 1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ…
THOU BLESSED SPIRIT, AUTHOR OF ALL GRACE AND COMFORT, Come, work repentance in my soul; Represent sin to me in its odious colors that I may hate it;Melt my heart by the majesty and mercy of God;Show me my ruined self and the help there is in him;Teach me to behold my Creator, his ability to save, his arms outstretched, his…
Philippians 1: 27-28, 27 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel, 28…
May we NOT just pass over these passages, but think on, and store them in our heart’s, men. These are the characteristics that God calls for in His men. Deut. 31:6 Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you.…
Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down to them (anything we make a god) or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me. Exodus 34:6-7, 6 The Lord passed before…
For the last few years there has been a national debate across America, with an underlying question of, Who gets to decide what it means to be a woman? It may come as a shock to many Christians that a question such as this is even being asked. But, it comes on the heels of…
Genesis 1:26-27, 26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So…
The Parable of the Persistent Widow Luke 18:1-8, 1 And he (Jesus) told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. 2 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. 3 And there was a widow in that…