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02/21/2025 – “The Discipline of Spiritual Perseverance”/ “Be still, and know that I am God…” Psalm 46:10 / Oswald and Biddy biographies – links attached

“Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. Perseverance means more than …

02/17/2025 – “Taking the Initiative Against Depression” / 1 of 5 daily devotions today – Why? See comment below

“The angel in this passage did not give Elijah a vision, or explain the Scriptures to him, or do anything remarkable. He simply told Elijah to do a very …

01/19/2024 – “Vision and Darkness” / “When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him” (Genesis 15:12)

“Whenever God gives a vision to a Christian, it is as if He puts him in the “stadow of His hand” (Isaiah 49:2). The saint’s duty is to be …

01/10/2025 – “THE OPENED SIGHT” / “I now send you, to open their eyes … that they may receive forgiveness of sins …’ (Acts 26: 17-18).// Note: “… Conversion is not regeneration. This is a neglected fact in our preaching today…”

“This verse is the greatest example of the true essence of the message of a disciple of Jesus Christ in all of the New Testament.

God’s first sovereign work of grace …

12/29/2024 – “Deserter or Disciple?” / “From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more” (John 6:66)

“When God by His Spirit through His Word, gives you a clear vision of His will, you must ‘walk in the light’ of that vision (1 John 1:7). Even …

12/28/2024 – “Continuous Conversion” / “… unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3).

“These words of our Lord refer to our initial conversion, but we should continue to turn to God as children, being continuously converted every day of our lives. If …

12/26/2024 – “Walk in the Light” / “If we walk in the light as He is in the light… the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin” ( 1 John 1:7).

“To mistake freedom from sin only on the conscious level of our lives for complete deliverance from sin by the atonmement through the Cross of Christ is a great error. …

12/21/2024 – “Experience or God’s Revealed Truth?” / “We have received … the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God”. (1 Corinthians 2:12).

“My experience is not what makes redemption real. Redemption has no real meaning for me until it is worked out through my conscious life. When I am born …

12/17/2024 – “Redemption – Creating the Need it Satisfies” / “The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him …” (1 Corinthians 2:14).

“The gospel of God creates the sense of need for the gospel. Is the gospel hidden to those who are servants already? No, Paul said, ‘But even if …

12/14/2024 – “The Great Life” / “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let your heart not be troubled… “(John 14:27)

“Whenever we experience something difficult in our personal life, we are tempted to blame God. But we are the ones in wrong, not God. Blaming God is evidence …