The crucifixion of Christ was the most heinous act ever to have been done but it was also the salvation of us.
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Therefore the world hates you
From He Gets Us has an agenda web site.
How did the story of Jesus, the world’s greatest love story, get twisted into a
tool to judge, harm, and divide?
We’ve done a lot of homework on our culture. We
researched how people feel about each other and what they think about Jesus and
Christianity. We’ve connected with thousands of people of various faith
traditions and those who claim no religion. We spoke to all kinds of people —
different backgrounds, beliefs, and, yes, political affiliations. And this is
what we’ve learned: From politics to sexuality and religion, so many of us feel
like our values, beliefs, and identities are under attack by the ideological
“others” around us. Many perceive those who differ with them on issues of
justice, dignity, and humanity as not just wrong or misguided but also as evil.
As enemies. We often see these “others” as close-minded, selfish, hypocritical
— and if we’re honest, many of us respond in kind.
You know I would not have to have done a lot of homework to
know why the world hates us.
John 15:18-19
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it
hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but
because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore
the world hates you.
(ESV)
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Pre-Evangelism
Sunday, February 4, 2024
The man that will have God's best becomes at once the object of the personal attention of the Holy Spirit. Such a man will not be required to wait for the rest of the church to come alive. He will not be penalized for the failures of his fellow Christians, nor be asked to forego the blessing till his sleepy brethren catch up. God deals with the individual heart as exclusively as if only one existed.
If this should seem to be an unduly individualistic approach to revival, let it be remembered that religion is personal before it can be social. Every prophet, every reformer, every revivalist had to meet God alone before he could help the multitudes. The great leaders who went on to turn thousands to Christ had to begin with God and their own soul. The plain Christian of today must experience personal revival before he can hope to bring renewed spiritual life to his church.Saturday, February 3, 2024
What is God trying to do with His believing people?-the Bible calls us a remnant according to grace, believers taken out of the great, teeming swarm of so-called religious people in today's world. I am inclined to join others in wondering if the Lord is postponing His coming because He is trying to get His Bride ready? For years it has been the popular idea in evangelical Christianity that the whole body of believers in Christ would rise like a flock of frightened birds when the Lord comes. But A.B. Simpson and William MacArthur and others in the past generation said, "Oh no! The Lord will take with Him those who are prepared and ready for His coming!" I do not presume to give an answer satisfying to everyone in our churches. But I know that many Christians are too smug about this, saying in effect: "I am converted to Christ through grace, so I can live as I please!" Of some things we cannot be dogmatic; but we know this for sure-God has no halfway house between heaven and hell where He takes us to fumigate us!
A.W. Tozer
Oh God, Let me die rather than to go on day by day living wrong. I do not want to become a careless, fleshly old man. I want to be right so that I can die right. Lord, I do not want my life to be extended if it would mean that I should cease to live right and fail in my mission to glorify You all of my days!...
Please, Father, help me to finish well. Amen
A.W. Tozer
Thursday, February 1, 2024
The Burning Bush experience!