Since my “You and God” blog hit your “inbox” last Tuesday more than three quarters of a million babies have been born worldwide! Some “guesstimate” that of that number, ninety percent of them will live, die and go out into eternity without having embraced the faith “once delivered,” the life-saving, soul-saving gospel of Jesus Christ,Continue reading “What Keeps People Out of Heaven”
Monthly Archives: January 2022
Five Golden Rules
Our Lord in His Sermon on the Mount plainly stated what has come to be known as “the Golden Rule.” He said: “And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.” (Luke 6:31) Peter, in his first epistle, succinctly stated another brief rule for Christian living when inContinue reading “Five Golden Rules”
Be Strong and of Good Courage
Those were the words God repeatedly set before Joshua, the successor to Moses who had died having led the Israelites out of Egypt and through a 40-year maize of a wandering wilderness journey. At the age of 120 Moses, who had received the 10 commandments from God’s hand on Mt. Sinai, Moses, the larger-than-life legend,Continue reading “Be Strong and of Good Courage”
Success
Jim Binney, Christian counsellor, said “Success is the continual achievement of what God wants me to be and the continual achievement of the goals God has helped me to set.” Pastor and author John Piper interestingly said this about success: “Our true success will never be known until all the branches of all the treesContinue reading “Success “
Missions Musings
Have you read the inspiring story of William Borden who was heir of the Borden Dairy estate in Chicago when God called him to the mission field of China (Mongolia)? He had attended Yale University where he founded a city rescue mission ministry as a student, then graduated from Princeton Divinity School whereupon his parentsContinue reading ” Missions Musings”
The Church and the 21st Century Pandemic
A friend of mine, teaching Sunday School, told (with tongue in cheek) how the Puritans dealt with absence from church. “Here is how they did things: Miss one Sunday and you get no meals on Monday; miss two Sundays and you get a whipping; miss three Sundays and you go to jail; miss four Sundays:Continue reading ” The Church and the 21st Century Pandemic”
“A Complete Change in My Life”
It was the year 1916 that Charles E. Fuller wrote to his wife the following note: “There has been a complete change in my life. Sunday, I went up to Los Angeles and heard Paul Rader preach. I never heard such a sermon in all my life. Eph.1:18. Now my whole life and aims andContinue reading ” “A Complete Change in My Life””
What God Requires of You
“Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the most High God?” Maybe you’ve asked yourself that question! It’s the question Israel asked itself as expressed in Micah 6:6. How can a mortal man approach the immortal, invisible God of the universe? We naturally think in terms of the physical, external. CanContinue reading “What God Requires of You”
Another Year
“Another year is dawning, Dear Master let it be, in working or in waiting, another year with Thee; Another year is dawning! Dear Master, let it be on earth, or else in Heaven, another year for Thee.” (Francis R. Havergal). So it is. Another year is off to its 2022 start, ready or not! HaveContinue reading “Another Year”