My dearest Ellen, on this day, I want to come to you to say; My love for you will falter never, I’ll love you always, dearest, ever! It was a day so long ago, To my delight I got to know A girl named Ellen from Wilkes County, A girl that brought to my lifeContinue reading “To My VELLENTINE”
Author Archives: Dr. Anthony Slutz
Can You Be Sure You Are Saved?
I have previously written about why some people will not make it to heaven. For some, that begs the question, “Can I be sure that I will go to heaven?” One thing is certain: God is “not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” (2 Pet.3:9) You can know thatContinue reading “Can You Be Sure You Are Saved?”
What Commitment Looks Like Up Close
I have written recently about commitment (“If I Falter, Push Me On”) but I want to revisit that subject again in this post from a slightly different perspective. I want to write from the vantage point of a pastor who in 50 years of pastoring has seen about every kind of commitment there is toContinue reading “What Commitment Looks Like Up Close”
“If I Falter, Push Me On”
Jesus said that “whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall find it” (Luke 9:24). Losing one’s life for a cause is commitment; losing one’s life for Jesus’ sake would be the ultimate commitment. Commitment in the 21st century has been put to the test as we are about to enter yearContinue reading ““If I Falter, Push Me On””
What Keeps People Out of Heaven
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”
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”
YOU and GOD 