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Note: Below is an anonymous article given to the women of our church from one of our newer members. It is anonymous due to the fact that she wishes to protect her former church. I believe that what this member is saying should be heard by many. Please feel free to distribute this to those who might benefit the most from it. (Jim Elliff, of Christian Worldview Network ). ******** My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear. My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly. I am bowed down and brought very low. This passage is from Psalm 38, which is subtitled, “Prayer of a Suffering Penitent.” Ladies, have you ever felt as David did when he wrote these words? Have you ever had a burden of guilt too heavy to bear? Remember now a time when you were brought very low by your sin, so low that you went about as if in mourning all day long. Do you have that time or place in mind? Good. Now, praise God for it! Thank Him that you were able to feel the real gr...

By Steve Cornell When natural disasters strike, some lose their lives; others lose all but their lives; still others are (as we say) miraculously spared. But how does God’s protection relate to natural disaster? When hurricanes pound islands and mainlands–churning out devastating tornadoes and floods, is God in control? Does God control the weather? Who sends the wind and rain? Why does one part of the world endure unbearable drought while another is devastated by floods? Why do some people get all the so-called “nice” weather? Is this simply “Mother Nature” randomly unleashing her powers? Or, is the Creator himself even in charge of the bad weather? Read the rest here .

"The old gospel was about an offended God; the new gospel is about a wounded us. The old gospel was about sin; the new gospel is about needs. The old gospel was about our need for righteousness; the new gospel is about our need for fulfillment. The old gospel is offensive to those who are perishing; the new gospel is attractive." --Gary Gilley, Southern View Chapel (see video below) “In this new gospel, the great "evils" to be redressed do not call for any fundamental change of direction in the human heart. Instead, the problem lies in my sense of rejection from others; in my corrosive experience of life’s vanity; in my nervous sense of self-condemnation and diffidence; in the imminent threat of boredom if my music is turned off; in my fussy complaints when a long, hard road lies ahead. These are today’s significant felt needs that the gospel is bent to serve. Jesus and the church exist to make you feel loved, significant, validated, entertained, and charged up. T...

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The other day I posted this: "There is no temptation for it, neither does it offer any pleasure to the one who does it; It is very offensive, yet may be repeated at will; It causes increasing hardness against Biblical Christianity and distress to every Christian; It shows the destruction to which mankind is bound, a sure sign of desperation and hopelessness. (hint: it can be loud)" Did you figure out what it was? The answer is: cursing or swearing.

There’s a call comes ringing over the restless wave, “Send the light! Send the light!” There are souls to rescue there are souls to save, Send the light! Send the light! Refrain Send the light, the blessèd Gospel light; Let it shine from shore to shore! Send the light, the blessèd Gospel light; Let it shine forevermore! We have heard the Macedonian call today, “Send the light! Send the light!” And a golden offering at the cross we lay, Send the light! Send the light! Refrain Let us pray that grace may everywhere abound, “Send the light! Send the light!” And a Christlike spirit everywhere be found, Send the light! Send the light! Refrain Let us not grow weary in the work of love, “Send the light! Send the light!” Let us gather jewels for a crown above, Send the light! Send the light! Refrain (Words & Music: Charles H. Gab­ri­el, 1890.)

“ Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken .” (NASB) “ Cast your burden on Jehovah, and He will keep you; He will never allow the righteous to waver .” (MJKV) Is God interested in our “stuff,” our burdens? We would like this verse to say, “Give your trouble to God and He will fix it” or, “just give it to God and everything will work out” but it doesn’t. The picture comes into focus when we consider how the verse actually reads in the original: “(You) hurl (throw, cast) the lot given to you upon the LORD, and He will make provision for you; He will always never give the righteous (a) shaking (slipping, sliding).” Look closely at the context of the verse. This Psalm is David’s complaint to God because someone very close relationally has stabbed David (metaphorically speaking) in the back. From the beginning of the Psalm we find David literally throwing himself at God. If the tendency is to think that God should fix the problem...

There is no temptation for it, neither does it offer any pleasure to the one who does it; It is very offensive, yet may be repeated at will; It causes increasing hardness against Biblical Christianity and distress to every Christian; It shows the destruction to which mankind is bound, a sure sign of desperation and hopelessness. (hint: often can be loud)

“Every true soldier is a hero! A soldier without heroism is a chocolate soldier! Who has not been stirred to scorn and mirth at the very thought of a Chocolate Soldier? In peace true soldiers are captive lions, fretting in their cages. War gives them their liberty and sends them, like boys bounding out of school, to obtain their heart's desire or perish in the attempt. Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigour of a hero. Every true Christian is a soldier — of Christ — a hero "par excellence!" Braver than the bravest - scorning the soft seductions of peace and her oft repeated warnings against hardship, disease, danger and death, whom he counts among his bosom friends. The otherwise Christian a Chocolate Christian, dissolving in water and melting at the smell of fire. Sweeties they are! Bonbons, lollipops! Living their lives in a glass dish or in a ...

"An almost Christian is one of the most hurtful creatures in the world; he is a wolf in sheep's clothing: he is one of those false prophets, our blessed Lord bids us beware of in his sermon on the mount, who would persuade men, that the way to heaven is broader than it really is; and thereby, as it was observed before, "enter not into the kingdom of God themselves, and those that are entering in they hinder." These, these are the men that turn the world into a luke-warm Laodicean spirit; that hang out false lights, and so shipwreck unthinking benighted souls in their voyage to the haven of eternity. These are they who are greater enemies to the cross of Christ, than infidels themselves: for of an unbeliever every one will be aware; but an almost Christian, through his subtle hypocrisy, draws away many after him; and therefore must expect to receive the greater damnation. " George Whitefield, " The Almost Christian ."

“[Y]ou know ‘our’ people will warn you, ‘Don't get too spiritual.’ You never heard anybody saying ‘Don't get to rich’, ‘Don't get too much education’ but rather ‘Don't get too much spiritual’ . . . Do you know why? Because they’ve been dragging their feet for the last ten or twenty years, and they’re afraid you’ll get ahead of them.” Leonard Ravenhill, “ Give me Souls or I’ll die!”

by A.W. Pink from Old Paths Newsletter, June 2007 "SATAN IS THE ARCH-counterfeiter. The Devil is now busy at work in the same field in which the Lord sowed the good seed. He is seeking to prevent the growth of the wheat by another plant, the tares, which closely resembles the wheat in appearance. In a word, by a process of imitation he is aiming to neutralize the Work of Christ. Therefore, as Christ has a Gospel, Satan has a gospel too; the latter being a clever counterfeit of the former. So closely does the gospel of Satan resemble that which it parodies, multitudes of the unsaved are deceived by it. It is to this gospel of Satan the apostle refers when he says to the Galatians, 'I marvel that ye are so soon removed from Him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another, but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the Gospel of Christ' (1:6, 7). This false gospel was being heralded even in the days of the apostle, and a most ...

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I was reading John Piper’s message, “ The Triumph of the Gospel in the New Heavens and the New Earth ” with Tchaikovsky’s “Suite from the Nutcracker” playing softly just within the threshold of my hearing. Outside, a bird in the tree is singing a melodious refrain (I would have thought the bird was actually part of the music had I not been paying attention). The pitch and volume of both bird and broadcast blended into a perfect concert. Imagine my escalating joy in Christ Jesus as I read the following with these rhythmic strains as background music: “Paul’s words in Romans 8:21 are a clear witness to the continuity between the old earth and the new earth: ‘ The creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption .’ So he understands ‘ new ’ to mean ‘ renewed ,’ not replaced. It’s not like, ‘I got a new car.’ When something is set free, it doesn’t go out of existence or get abandoned. It may change, but it is still there, and free. So one of the things you say to that mom ...

(excerpt from A.B. Simpson's landmark sermon, " Christ Himself ") "I wish to speak to you about Jesus, and Jesus only. I often hear people say, "I wish I could get hold of Divine Healing, but I cannot." Sometimes they say, "I have got it." If I ask them, "What have you got?" the answer is sometimes, "I have got the blessing", sometimes it is, "I have got the theory"; sometimes it is, "I have got the healing"; sometimes, "I have got the sanctification." But I thank God we have been taught that it is not the blessing, it is not the healing, it is not the sanctification, it is not the thing, it is not the it that you want, but it is something better. It is "the Christ"; it is Himself. How often that comes out in His Word - "Himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses", Himself "bare our sins in his own body on the tree"! It is the person of Jesus Christ we want. ...

Which of the following statements is incorrect: A: ‘God sent his Son to suffer and die on the cross for you.’ B: ‘God loves you so much that he sent his Son to die for you.’ C: ‘Jesus died on the Cross to pay for your sins.’ D: ‘If you die in your sin’s you will go to Hell, that is not God’s will.’ E: ‘Christ died on the cross for sinners.’ F: All of the above. G: None of the above. To see how you did, go here .

“If we once get above our Bibles, and cease making the written word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion, and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience. Our blessed Lord, though he had the Spirit of God without measure, yet always was governed by, and fought the devil with, ‘It is written'.” (George Whitefield, “ Walking with God ”) “All men now presume to criticize the gospel. Almost every old doting fool or prating sophist must, forsooth, be a doctor in divinity. All other arts and sciences have masters, of whom people must learn, and rules and regulations which must be observed and obeyed; the Holy Scripture only, God’s Word, must be subject to each man’s pride and presumption; hence; so many sects, seducers, and offences. I did not learn my divinity at once, but was constrained by my temptations to search deeper and deeper; for no man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true un...

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