I'll Be Honest

God has not "swept our sin under the rug", but rather Christ has bore our sin and the punishment for it. In His death on the Cross, He has paid in full the penalty due to us for our sin by bearing the wrath and anger of God that we deserve. Therefore God is just, and yet can declare righteous the unjust through the Just One, Jesus Christ. Paul Washer's ministry: http://heartcrymissionary.com/ Prea...

Are there conspiracy theories out there? Of course, because the Bible speaks about a kingdom of darkness; and all humanity is either under the control of the devil or serving the Lord. Are there schemes and plots against Christians? Certainly. Yet those who are truly enlightened are the Christians! The rest of the world is in darkness and the grasp of the evil one.

If Jesus Christ is not the center of our message to the lost, then we have nothing that can change lost men's minds. Yet upon hearing of Christ, God may graciously open their eyes to see such a glory in Jesus that makes a man change his mind and repent and believe. Excerpt from the full sermon: Great is the Mystery of Godliness

This Ask Pastor Tim deals with the question, "If I broke up with my boyfriend because he stopped being a Christian, is it OK to wait for him till he comes back to Christ, or do I have to move on?" First Tim considers what true salvation is, that it's not some "in and out thing". Secondly, he considers what type of relationships the Bible even talks about existing between a guy and a girl.

Jesus taught that the real proof of being genuinely saved is not by what we say, but by our walk. Do your actions reflect what your lips proclaim to believe? If so, then you will find yourself looking to what Jesus says for direction in your life. May the Lord give us strength to do what Christ says by His power working in us.

As believers we need an eye for the eternal and we ought to mark that which is temporal or eternal. Then we must look at that which is eternal and set our eyes on living for and knowing those eternal realities. Things like who God is and the Word of God, the souls of men, the dealings of God in your life, providences of God, kind tokens of His presence and love.

When God saves someone there is a revelation of the mystery of God's will that is in Christ. This mystery we would not understand if God did not specifically cause us to see it. It is the Lord who opens our minds to comprehend hidden things and make "known to us the mystery of His will." (Ephesians 1:9) As a Christian something suddenly came upon your spiritual senses, that you were never able to...

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God’s ultimate purpose is pointing to the unification of all things by way of reconciliation to God by peace, which is made by the blood on Christ’s Cross. As Ephesians 1:10 says, “as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.”

“Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.” There’s a truth there, that the song writer says, that you and I need to know. The reason why is because how frequently Scripture hits us with this truth. The Providence itself makes it look like God is frowning at you, but if you can pull back the veil you see a smiling face and the kingdom of heaven. Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But...

I’ve often considered it to be a significant measure of a person’s spiritual maturity to simply ask somebody, “How much do you pray for others?” How much are you self-absorbed with your own needs and not the needs of others? – Tim Conway

Brethren, don't be deceived, Satan does not like praying churches; he loves it when the prayer meetings begin to diminish. Prayer unleashes the power of God and he knows it. Don't give into this. If some of you are not showing forth a devotedness to corporate prayer; then brethren I call you, repent of that, turn, don't go down that path. It can become easy; you justify it once, you justify it twi...

Love is not some mushy feeling, it has to do with laying down your life for someone... it is the most costly thing imaginable to love the way the Bible talks about what love is. - Charles Leiter

Don't be scared of the word love and overreact to the abuse that its meaning has taken in our generation. The last thing we want to do is dull down its true meaning to be something different than what the Bible emphasizes it to be.

True life is to know the Lord intimately, but sin interrupts this. One of the greatest griefs behind sin is how it affects the Christian's fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ. If you pray for a brother who has committed a sin as a believer, which does not lead unto death, then what happens? The text says that God will give him life, meaning restore him in the specific area of sin that entered an...

Some people think that you go to Bible college or seminary and you become a pastor. Let me ask you this, has God come to you and given you something that you did not have before? Has God given you a gift? Has God given you power to be able to carry out the work of a pastor? Notice what Paul said, " ...the stewardship of God's grace that was given to me for you" (Eph. 3:2). Too many men want to pro...

When I started out, on the Christian faith, I did not have any feelings. I had no flashing lights. I just saw, this is right. The word of God is true. I have got to be born again... I have got to go with Christ. I have got to forsake these sinful friends. I have got to forsake sin. And so I started out by faith taking God at His Word, when I didn't have a bit of feeling. - Bob Jennings

Believer, are you ready to be wiser than the world when it comes to how you handle your money? When the Apostle Paul teaches the Corinthians about giving he stresses that the real giver in the midst of our giving is not us, but God is the true giver.

When studying homiletics, the art of sermon preparation and delivery, we must start with James 3:1 and consider how the Bible says, "Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness." Here we see that the Bible does not consider it a light matter to teach the Word of God. Therefore for starters we should not ask, "How many p...

Is there a power in your life that is somehow a reflection of the power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead? Don't be satisfied with powerless Christianity because Christianity is all about a God who acts in power.

The Lord designs some to specifically have a special calling to preach that is above and beyond the norm. It is God alone who knows how to create a preacher. He does this in a few people so that believers may be taught, instructed, and built up through the Word of God.

We need to be content with the gifts that God has given to us. I find many men are not content, especially when it comes to the place of preaching. Many men are not content if it were to be found out that God had given them an unusual gift of serving instead of a preaching gift.

One of the things that happened when I stood in that pulpit, that first time, is my legs barely carried me into the pulpit. When I got there, it was like such a sense of peace descended upon me; all my faculties, my mind was absolutely clear, strength was in my legs, and my mouth was ready to speak. The thing is as I looked at those people... such a burden came over me for their souls... that I ha...

Abiding in Christ is not some kind of passive approach to the Christian life. Scripture is plain and straight forward that we must go and put to death what is earthly in us. This is no vain call for Christians to do what we cannot do, but we have the power of God mightily working in us for this to be accomplished.

When it comes to a study on sermon preparation we must not neglect the topic of the preacher's holiness. If there is unholiness in the preacher's life, it will destroy any power from being present in the delivery of the sermon. This is because God is involved in what happens in that pulpit and if you are seeking to preach with an unclean life you will not have any power.