Pastor Joel Laswell

When we establish righteous habits, we will do them without even thinking! So let us become educated to the righteous will of God concerning our roles as men and women, then we can lay out goals to change what is out of order in our life, and by God’s grace establish right habits that bring glory to our Creator!

While husbands and fathers have been given primary responsibility for the leadership of their families including their children, wives and mothers are to be "workers at home," meaning manager of the household. Their home and their children are to be their priority—in contrast to the feminist emphasis today on careers and jobs for women outside the home--a role reversal that goes against God's idea...

Each role in the family unit—Husband, Wife, and Children—teaches us something about God’s ideal in the organization of the church. We began looking at the roles and responsibilities of the family unit with the understanding that church duties first begin at home. One of the greatest problems in the family firm today, marriage specifically, is that the differences between the male and the female ha...

Please notice that among all the levels of authority in the universe, God has set man in the place of leadership over his own home and family. The husband is to be the leader of the home. God never assigned the wife to be the head of the home. Woman was not made for the role, neither do the majority of women really desire it. Men must recognize their proper role in the home if there is to be true...

Each role in the family unit--father, mother, children--teaches us something about God's ideal in the organization of the church. So I want to spend some time looking at the roles and responsibilities of the family unit with the understanding that church duties should first begin at home.

True church unity and organization, biblically speaking, starts at home. It started at Creation as God ordered everything according to His will, which is perfect order. God, not the author of confusion, demonstrated Gospel Order in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve.

God has given us a system of benevolence that is to keep our minds and hearts directed toward Him and the helping of others—thus protecting us from coveting that which is our neighbors. This system or reminder He calls tithes and offerings.

Spiritual order is the foundation of Gospel Order. As we learn more and more of Christ we will be taught more and more of the divine characteristics of true order… as individuals first, which will ripple into our family life and all through the church. This well ordered life will be seen by others and be a testament to Jesus working in you.

What is Gospel Order? It is proper order and system established for the conduct of all affairs pertaining to the spiritual welfare of the believers in God! Where do we find this system delineated? In God's Word! Who is at the heart of this order? Let's see what the Word of God says...

The call of the fall of spiritual Babylon and to come out of it is a call from the Savior of mankind. This is something that we must realize in its totality… that Jesus is calling His people to Himself so that He can have a pure and undefiled church, as He is pure and undefiled. As the Head of the true church it is He who is calling for His lost sheep to separate from fallen churches and follow Hi...

The Bible has given us incredible counsel on what we are to do when confronted with sin. We have studied Matthew 5 and 18 on how to deal with sin in the church—God’s checks and balances, but what if you follow the counsel of God’s word but your church rejects it? What do you do?

In part one we began to look at some biblical principles on how to correctly deal with sin within the church and more principles are shared here in part two. I want to emphasize that these principles deal with those who are in the church, not those who are not members, for the church has no authority over unbelievers. God has instructed us to use these principles to keep His church from falling or...

God has laid out principles of organization and checks and balances in governing that organization to keep it from falling into apostasy (forming a different organization, which we have learned means joining the antichrist organization known as Babylon fallen). Just what are these checks and balances?

We must understand that when we join ourselves by covenant with an organization, we are held accountable for what that organization does. We cannot say to God that it was the leaders fault and blame others. Adam did that by saying it was Eve's fault, Eve said it was the serpent's fault. It is the spirit of antichrist that lays the fault of personal and corporate sins on others. Satan blamed God fo...

There is an essential Biblical principle that is generally unrecognized by Christians today both within and without spiritual Babylon, and some who are made aware of this principle refuse to acknowledge it. This principle is at the very core of the great controversy. This principle has everything to do with unity—being of one accord with God and each of His people. This is the principle of corpora...

Light has ever been a symbol of the divine presence. As physical light is essential to physical life, so divine light is necessary if rational beings are to have moral and spiritual life. Jesus told us to walk while we have the Light... to continue on to the Kingdom of God, we must Advance in the Light!

In defining God's church we find that the scriptures have drawn a line and a decision must be made as to which church we will choose to belong to and there are only two choices. We either join the church of Christ or remain in the church of antichrist. What side of the line will you choose to be on?

What is the banner of Christ? The banner of Christ is the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Christ and all the apostles taught Christians to keep the commandments of God through the faith of Jesus, by the power that Jesus will give you. Anyone holding up this banner is a member of God's true church!

Things in this world are tightening up. We are seeing the birthing pains of the earth and it will get worse my friends, for God has said so. God has also said that He is going to lead His people to triumph in this great final conflict with the beast, his image, number and mark and that is great news! Just when it appears that His church will be destroyed, it is delivered. I want to talk about His...

Some lessons in taking a closer look at God's people, His church, from the time of Christ and the apostles through to today.

There is a parallel in the experience of King Saul and King David and that of the professed church of God and the true church of God that will help us to make the right choice and come out of Babylon fallen.

We are going to take a look at the parable of the Ten Virgins, the message to the Laodicean Church of Revelation 3, and then the parable of the Wheat and the Tares. We are going to see tremendous parallels between the three and hopefully learn the truth as to these three subjects in their relationship to the church of God—the church militant and the church triumphant.

There will never exist true unity in the home or in the church while someone is striving for first place. We must, by God’s grace, become humble and it starts with allowing Jesus on the throne of our heart.

There is nothing more precious than true unity in the Lord. It is what the Lord desires and longs for in our home; between husbands and wives and children and parents. That is what He longs for in the church. It is the thing that will allow Him to pour out more of His blessings upon us and give us a greater than Pentecost experience—the Loud Cry. The 144000 will be in complete unity of faith and S...

In order to be vibrant and healthy spiritually, one must submit to Jesus. When we submit to Jesus we will become like Him. Our hearts will be filled with the love that has its origins in Him. We will love God with all our hearts and our neighbors as ourselves. We will live Christ's life of obedient love! His church exemplifies this vibrant love in its fellowship together.