Posts Tagged ‘Faithfulness’
Cultivating a Life of Faith (7): A Man of Daily Commitment
Jim Oesterwind Genesis 17.1-27 Our failures and setbacks in the Christian life may be reduced to this one sentence: We forget who God is and what He is able to do when it comes to keeping His promises. Genesis 17 is yet another reaffirmation of the formal covenant cut in Genesis 15 and first introduced…
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Jim Oesterwind Genesis 16.1-16 The descendants of Abraham would number as the stars are numbered in the heaven (Genesis 15). God is gracious to reveal that Abraham’s future descendants would one day come out of Egypt after about 400 years of affliction with great possessions, great numbers, and a great God. While God accomplished much…
Read MoreDo These Thoughts Make You Fear?
Don Johnson Sometimes concepts seem to come together for me all of a sudden. I may be studying one subject, a book of the Bible, say, for a series of messages and at the same time reading another book for personal interest or some other study project. In company with this comes some life experience…
Read MoreCultivating Faith (3): Choosing to Cultivate Faith
Jim Oesterwind Genesis 13.1-18 The story of Abraham and Lot is a story of two roads which diverge. It is a story filled with choices. While the eternal destination of both men is the same, the ways in which they lived on this earth become a stark contrast.
Read MoreRiding Against the Wind: the struggle to maintain a fundamentalist mindset
Wally Morris As pastors get older, we tend to develop stress related health problems such as high blood pressure, ulcers, and coronary disease. We also tend to eat too many snacks and drink too much coffee and carbonated drinks. For several years, during the warmer months, I have enjoyed cycling as a way to exercise,…
Read MoreOne Wish: Aligning my desires with God’s call
Doug Wright I Kings 5-9 records a verbal exchange between God and Solomon. That exchange, set in a dream, culminates with Solomon saying, “Give therefore Thy servant an understanding heart to judge Thy people that I may discern between good and bad [evil]. For who is able to judge this thy so great a people…
Read MoreMisfortune or Providence?
Excerpted from Letters from a Soviet Prison Camp by Mikhail Khorev (Grummersbach, West Germany: Missionswerk Friedenstimme, 1986). Reprinted 1989 by Baker Book House. Used by permission. Born in 1931, Mikhail Khorev was imprisoned for his faith and ministry in the former Soviet Union in the 1950s and again from 1980 to 1986. Plagued from birth…
Read MoreGetting Back to God’s Business
Phil Shuler [Note: Events mentioned in this article happened some time ago, we are republishing it to enjoy again the benefit of the spiritual lessons learned then.] I write this article from my home in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, where we are experiencing one of the worst floods in over 120 years. As I write,…
Read MoreGuardian Angels on Overtime
Robert W. Browne “Take heed … in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father” (Matt. 18:10). Rufus Perry and I were playing marbles in the shade of a large pecan tree. I should have picked another of the 10-yearold boys as an opponent. Rufus was an expert—he already had a pocket…
Read More“We’ll Come Back for You!”
by Rick Barry This article first appeared in FrontLine • July/August 2000. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. The story recounted by this article is probably fairly well known – a favorite illustration in many a sermon. We republish it here, at the close of the week, to remind you of it once again…
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