Preaching The Gospel To Ourselves

In a comment by a recent visitor to my weblog, he said in part, “People who talk to themselves and hear some sort of messages as Dr. Sproul said, as an advised to those who experience such, will better consult the counsel of Psychiatrists to the earliest possible time.” This was his quick response to my statement [...]

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Devil’s Weapon: Doubt and Unbelief

The original article – The Power of Repentance – is posted in Apprising Ministries website and the context has to do with seeker-sensitive, Church Growth Movement leaders. I could not just put a link here because it is such a good short post that I decided to share with you a large portion of it [...]

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Consolation of My Heart

Just a few days ago I wrote my post entitled ‘Inspiration For A Song’ and a part of it is where the psalmist said that he will declare God’s steadfast love in the morning (Psalm 92:2).  Well, this is what happened to me today, as I set myself – mind, heart and body – to read the Scriptures, [...]

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Quote from Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)

Never choose to be a worker for God, but once God has placed His call on you, woe be to you if you “turn aside to the right hand or to the left” ( Deuteronomy 5:32  ). We are not here to work for God because we have chosen to do so, but because God has [...]

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Quote from John Bunyan (1628-1688)

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan. Prayer will cease a man from sin, or sin will cease a man from prayer.”
 

John Bunyan (1628-1688) was a Puritan preacher and writer born in Elstow, England. He wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress during his twelve-year imprisonment [...]

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Inspiration For A Song

Psalm 92
(a Song for the Sabbath)
1 It is good to give thanks to the Lord,
to sing praises to your name, O Most High;
2 to declare your steadfast love in the morning,
and your faithfulness by night,
3 to the music of the lute and the harp,
to the melody of the lyre.
4 For you, O Lord, have made me glad by [...]

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Spiritual, Religious or Christian?

Christian ‘Yoga’, contemplative spirituality/mysticism, spiritual formation movement, New Age,  theosophy, ecumenism, Purpose Driven, pragmatism, relativism, Emergent Christianity and universalism…these are but a few yet the most significant  serious errors and heresies that has made in-roads into evangelicalism in at least the last few decades in increasing potency though not necessarily in chronological order. 
Matthew recorded these words of the One [...]

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The Wrong Kind of Love

 

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,  nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. – 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

On August 8, 2009 [...]

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The Key To Discerning Truth And Error

1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not [...]

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H1N1 Pandemic

For He will deliver you…from the deadly pestilence” – Psalm 91:3

 
In a few months, winter will descend upon most of the earth’s northern hemisphere and there is a growing apprehension about the speed of transmission of the swine flu virus.  In the United States, the worst case scenario projects 140,000,000 persons will be infected by the virus.  October 15, [...]

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