Hand Over to Christ the Burden of the Ebb and Flow of Feeling

Our feelings are as changeable as April weather.  They are affected by an infinite number of subtle causes – our physical health, the state of the atmosphere, overweariness, want of sleep – as well as by those that are spiritual and inward.  No stringed instrument is more liable to be affected by minute changes than we [...]

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Panoply Series – Part 6 – Standing Firm Till the End

It has been a while since I last posted part 5 of our Panoply Series.  To review each section of the series, please go to the sidebar under Categories and choose Panoply Series to take you to the full list.  With thanksgiving to God, we proceed now with part 6 by reading Ephesians 6:13: Therefore, [...]

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It’s Well Past the Time to Get Ready

  IT’S WELL PAST TIME TO GET READY By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 20, 2009 * “The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired [Jesus] that He would show them a sign from heaven. He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for [...]

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Panoply Series – Part 5 – Unmasking the Enemy

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers, against the spiritual forces in the heavenly places.” – Ephesians 6:12 In part 4 of our series, we are commanded to put the whole armor of God to protect us against the different methods by which [...]

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Quote from D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1889-1981)

There is no better test of our spiritual state and condition than our missionary zeal, our concern for lost souls. That is always the thing that divides people who are just theoretical and intellectual Christians from those who have a living and a vital spiritual life.” The man who is a true Christian is a [...]

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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 [...]

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