I'll Be Honest

I've found out that the Lord will give you a test, and if you don't pass it, He takes you through a course again and you've got to go back to the same test. You might as well get it right the first time. And then after awhile, after a few years, He gives you a refresher course. – Mike Morrow

The last portion of Matthew 25 is not a parable, but an actual description of Judgement Day. Few passages in our Bibles show so plainly the nature of those good works which characterize the saved, which are utterly absent in the lost.

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. – Ephesians 4:29

For the very first time in my life I realized I was a sinner before God and that Christ was who the Bible said He was. He really was the Son of God who had died on the cross for my sins. In faith, I cried out to Him to save me. What happened next has never left me. It seemed to me that a great white hand reached down into me and took out all the sin and filth I was guilty of. I knew that God had f...

Paul said, "The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet." What a statement! God has so purposed to take weak instruments like us and crush Satan's head under our feet. One of the ways this happens is by us trusting the LORD in prayer and praying in a way that is dangerous to the devil.

When revival and true conversion happens, it is not because of some person taking clever initiative and having a new idea, but it is because God came in power. We need to be people who pray in faith and humble ourselves before God and lay a hold of Him.

We often say, “If I could understand something, then I would believe it.” Yet God says that when you believe something, then you will understand it. Hebrews 11:3 says it is, “By faith we understand that the worlds were created by the word of God…” So faith is: God said this. That settles it. As we learn to not trust in our own ability, we then constantly live on the reality of Christ living His li...

The path of faith that Abraham walked on led him to die to what God had promised him. The Lord told him to take his only son Isaac, who was the joy of his heart, and burn him up on an altar. The life of faith led him to die to what was near and dear to him, yet in the end God gave him back his son. We see that the life of faith is not easy, but one of dying to that which is dear to us and entrusti...

If my heart is desperately wicked and evil as all things, I have as much chance of obeying as Israel. I need a new heart. And I got news for you: I have one! God made me new. He saved me. He took my heart, that was always bent on evil and only desired evil continually, all the time. He took that heart out of me and He gave me a heart of flesh. – Ryan Fullerton

Many times when God calls a person to go and do something, that person turns around and starts holding on to what he's got and where he is. When you do that, the life of faith is cut off immediately. You can't walk by faith when you're trying to walk by sight and hold on to where you are and who you are.

Some have said that Matthew 24 is the most difficult chapter in the entire Bible. This is the first of two messages in which an attempt is made to try to make sense of this difficult chapter. It is important to let Jesus Himself teach us what these verses mean.

This is the second of two messages in which Matthew 24 is explored. Jesus taught that His own generation would not pass away until the first part of this chapter was fulfilled. This is an attempt to show how that actually came to pass.

If we get our minds off of ourselves and get our minds on our brothers and sisters needs; and especially our minds in worship on the Lord Jesus Christ, a whole lot of problems that we're having would be gone.

The Holy Spirit will put a strict watch over you, with a jealous love, and will rebuke you for little words and feelings, or for wasting your time, which other Christians never seem distressed over. So make up your mind that God is an infinite Sovereign, and has a right to do as He pleases with His own. He may not explain to you a thousand things which puzzle your reason in His dealings with you,...

The last four verses of Daniel 9 are rich with prophecy concerning the great atoning work of our Lord Jesus Christ. Many try to find the anti-Christ in these verses, but it is Christ we need to look for here.

David's attitude of deliberate holiness is impressive and something we should imitate. He is purposeful in his pursuit of holiness when he says in Psalm 119, “I promise to keep your words.”

When praying in a corporate prayer meeting ask God to help you to forget everybody else. You’re not there to impress others with your praying. You’re not there to be eloquent as the Pharisees were. Your prayers don’t have to be fancy or perfect. Remember prayer is the expression of the heart to God so we need to learn to be free and to be ourselves. We need to learn to be specific in prayer.

Joy comes before obedience, rather than after. If you don't understand that, you will really be messed up all of your days. Joy is not the result of obedience, joy is the result of what God has done. So now your joy is fixed on a fixed and stable source. When your joy is based on your performance it is going to be up and down like the wind. Paul Washer of HeartCry Missionary | http://heartcrymissi...

If a believer who fights against sexual lust can but look and realize that resisting temptation here is but for a moment. Yet in a brief vapor we will be in heaven and satisfied with such glories in Christ that are not worth comparing to anything here. So in view of such truths as that, we must not grow weary in our fight against sin.

At times when someone asks, "How do I deal with the hiddenness of God?" it is not God hiding Himself from us, but our own sin or busyness and neglect of the Lord that is the problem. Are there so many things that "have to" be done in my life that would lead me to leave God out of the picture? Is excelling in school, at the cost of spiritually shipwrecking, the right decision?

Authentic Christianity is a thorn in the side of this popular culture of the world in which we live in. The light of Jesus Christ in you, will have an effect... and will preach light to a world that wants to remain in darkness. - Michael Durham Michael Durham is a pastor at Oak Grove Baptist Church in Kentucky http://www.ogbclife.com/ and is also a part of the ministry http://realtruthmatters.com/...

Listen brethren, your conclusions about Scripture are not infallible, your rationale deductions and principles that you draw from Scripture, are not equal to Scripture. When you begin to draw principles from Scripture and enforce them on other people, your beginning to get on ground, that is not safe. - Tim Conway

We must not withhold our fellowship from any faithful brethren because they don't think exactly like us, but we must understand who we have unity with and who we can have true fellowship with. We cannot approve of and agree with those who have no real love for Christ's Gospel. We cannot make people think we are in agreement with them when in reality we differ on the most basic truth. That is a fal...

Children, you may not have a big long record of sin like some of us adults do, but still you've got a lot of bad on your record. The wages of that sin is death in hell, but Jesus Christ came and died so that you don't have to suffer that hell. He alone is the Anchor of the soul that will save you from the storm of God's wrath.

When we speak as Christians about "us and them", isn't the very nature of those pronouns divisive talk? The Bible doesn't teach us, "white and black", but Paul says in Galatians 3:28, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."