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In the late seventies, God very graciously opened an itinerant ministry to me. As I began to travel, I found that I had access to church growth records, and found to my horror that something like 80 to 90% of those making a decision for Christ were falling away from the faith. That is, modern evange... Read More

I moved outdoors from the bustle of a noisy restaurant to take a call on my cell phone. As I was about to return, I passed a gospel tract to a woman who sat alone at a table. She looked at the tract, then to my surprise jumped up and kissed me on the cheek. I was delighted--not with the kiss, but wi... Read More

Surely we're all agreed that second to the absolute need for each of us to have a burning relationship with God, is the need to be in touch with the anguish of the world. Christians become stale, fellowships sterile, if they aren't constantly pressed by the pain of the children of this world. But su... Read More

Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the heathen; I will be exalted in the Earth. Psalm 46:10 M any of us are frustrated by a feeling that we just aren't accomplishing anything significant with our lives. We sense that something important is waiting to be done by us, that God has... Read More

For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of t... Read More

For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits Eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and the revive the heart of the contrite." Isaiah 57:15 Jesus is walking down the road su... Read More

Read: LUKE 15 When we keep saying that the Spirit of God is doing a new thing in this city these days, when we talk about our city being visited by God, it's important that we understand what it means for God to visit a city. We're not talking about lightning, thunder, and earthquake. God can come w... Read More

"THIS is a work which I find deficient; but it is to be done with wisdom, sobriety, and reverence, or not at all." Thus wrote Lord Bacon in treating of what he describes as "history of prophecy." "The nature of such a work," he explains, "ought to be that every prophecy of the Scripture be sorted wi... Read More

Then He shall say unto those on the left hand, "Depart from me, you cursed ones, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels!" Matthew 25:41 INTRODUCTION Were there no other place of eternal lodging but heaven, I should here have closed my discourse of man's eternal state; but as in... Read More

"All that the Father giveth Me shall come to Me; and him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out." (John 6:37) We have words of spiritual instruction set before us in the context preceding and succeeding the verse I have read for our meditation. Our Lord Jesus Christ, with that spirit of true l... Read More