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04/27/2025 – “What Do You Want ?” / “Do you seek great things for yourself?” (Jeremiah 45:5)

Are you seeking great things for yourself, instead of seeking to be a great person. God wants you to be in a closer relationship with Himself than simply …

04/24/2025 – “The Warning Against Desiring Spiritual Success”

“Worldliness is not the trap that most endangers us as Christian workers, nor is it sin. The trap we fall into is extravagantly desiring spiritual success; that is success …

04/14/2025 – “Inner Invincibility” / “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me …” (Matthew 11:29).

“Whom the LORD loves He chastens …” (Hebrews 12:6). How petty our complaining is! Our Lord begins to brings us to the point where we can have …

04/10/2025 – “Complete and Effective Decision About Sin” / Romans 6:6

“… our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin” (Romans 6:6)

“Co-Crucifixion. …

04/06/2025 – “His Agony and Our Access” / “Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples … ‘Stay here, and watch with Me'”. (Matthew 26: 36,38)

“We can never fully comprehend Christ’s agony in the the Garden of Gethsemane, but at least we don’t have to misunderstand it. It is the agony of God and …

03/22/2025 – “The Burning Heart” / “Did not our heart burn within us …?” (Luke 24:32).

“We need to learn this secret of the burning heart. Suddenly Jesus appears to us, fires are set ablaze, and we are given wonderful visions; but then we must …

03/16/2025 – “The Master Will Judge” / 2 Corinthians 5:10

“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good …

“03/09/2025 – “Turning Back or Walking with Jesus?”/ “Do you also want to go away?” (John 6:67)

“What a penetrating question! Our Lord’s words often hit home for us when He speaks in the simplest way. In spite of the fact that we know who …

03/08/2025 – “The Surrendered Life” / “I have been crucified with Christ…” (Galatians 2:20)

“To become one with Jesus Christ, a person must be willing not only to give up sin, but also to surrender his whole way of looking at things. Being …

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 …