Entries Tagged as ‘Encouragement’

May 16, 2009

The Unsung Hero

Often not knowing all the reasons why, she nods her head in submission as to the Lord when her husband shares the news that he believes the gospel is to be shared with a tribe who live on another planet in a distant galaxy who speaks “Klingon” and who wear nothing but toothless grimaces and [...]

April 12, 2009

A Glorious Resurrection Morning!

“Hallelujah, praise Jehovah, from the heavens praise His Name;
Praise Jehovah in the highest, all His angels, praise proclaim.
All His hosts, together praise Him, sun and moon and stars on high;
Praise Him, O you heav’ns of heavens, and you floods above the sky.

Refrain
Let them praises give Jehovah, for His Name alone is high,
And His glory [...]

March 26, 2009

Thanks for the Fwench Fwies!

Pastor Mark Kielar brings a reminder of the free gift of God!

March 25, 2009

Focus on Liberia

Mark and Nancy Sheppard are missionaries with Baptist Mid-Missions. Having a love for Liberia myself, I want to use today’s post to inform our readers of what is happening in the life of a couple who have chosen to leave family behind to serve where the need is great.
You may read about them on [...]

January 19, 2009

Service to Liberia

I believe that it is important to support the work of missions. Over the next few months, we will be sharing the need of various missionaries. These are true heroes who are willing to leave it all behind in order to seek the advancement of the kingdom of God. They are doing [...]

December 23, 2008

A Quote Worth Considering

“If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ.  Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier [...]

September 19, 2008

Music – The Golden Calf – Part 9

The problem is most no longer seek to approach worship from a God-centered perspective, but a man centered perspective.
From Christian Worship, “Today there are two decidedly different and opposing approaches to worship. There is God-centered worship composed of some who embrace the regulative principle of worship and some who embrace the normative. And there [...]

September 15, 2008

Music – The Golden Calf – Part 8

Here are two further principles from Scripture that must dictate what we can choose to use in the area of style. First, when a music style does more to produce and stir up passions of the flesh because of the beat instead of a desire to come reverently and humbly before the Creator of the [...]

September 11, 2008

A Checklist for Church Music!

Thanks Michael for sharing this article by Nathan Busenitz.  You may read the article along with any accompanying comments here.
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I would encourage reading the following…some of these questions leave a lot unanswered on the table from many various artists and forms of “worship”.
In Christ,
Michael
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I believe Nathan who serves as personal assistant to John MacArthur is [...]

September 3, 2008

Music – The Golden Calf – Part 5

Look at one of the statements in that last paragraph. “To take a thing unwholesome and unchristian in its conception and sprinkle it with Christian terminology (e.g. Christian music and Christian psychology) is to breech this commandment of God.”

As we have already mentioned, far too many have made music a golden calf. In their [...]