Unless the Lord guards the city, The watchman keeps awake in vain." Psalm 127:1 Here's hoping that many of you will join us in praying ....

Every believer has a God ordained garden or lane or sphere that He expects us to discern or discover and to steward

"This is not totally exhaustive, but it is a solid survey of what is revealed about the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament."

"For they themselves report about us what kind of a reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God," I Thess. 1:9

"....I asked, How can we be more fruitful members of His body?  How can we better fulfill our role as members of His body? One way to find out is to study all of the “one another” or “each other” commands in the New Testament."

One of the ways Jesus - our Head - has provided for us to escape and be delivered from the selfish individualism of our mostly godless culture and society is by revealing to us our corporate identity

I've always wanted to get all of these commands (a couple of them aren't explicity commands) in one place, especially since last Sunday...

(This is the gist or outline of my World Changers/Giant Slayers class discussion this last Sunday - - May 4, 2024. 12 mostly elementary...

"His plans and purposes for you are way beyond what you can imagine. To experience them you will need to learn to overcome in all things financial."

"Those forty days after Jesus was raised from the dead and before He ascended to heaven were very strategic days of training and preparation for the 11 apostles and all the other disciples and apostles who would help birth and lead the early church."

"...God cares about our cities, and sees them as cities, and will judge them as cities; and knowing I need to have more of His heart for my city; and knowing that He calls us as His church to intercede for "...kings and all who are in authority..." (I Timothy 2:1,2) I developed a prayer tool for myself and for the folks in our congregation..."

"Paul was not afraid of Satan, but he greatly respected his power, cunningness and ability to mess with believers. He never let his guard down with the evil one."

"....Satan has plenty of bite. His hatred of us and our God, and Israel and the church is beyond what any of us can fathom. And His cunningness is the same,..."

(This is the lesson I created for tomorrow's World Changers & Giant Slayers class as a follow up to our lesson about pride last week. My...

It is impossible to walk with God and please Him without an abundance of His grace being poured out on us every day. And yet He clearly says He only "...gives grace to the humble." So we probably should be a little more sober about the problem of pride than we are, and give a lot more attention to the pursuit of humility

God’s strong desire is that we all are increasingly satisfied in Him, and decreasingly looking to the world for what only God can give

Dear Readers:   If you read and/or watched my sermon re: fellowship with God and one another from I John on 1/28, you might remember that...

"....marriage is one of the most brilliant inventions God ever devised. And therefore it is also one of Satan and his demons’ primary targets for destruction."

"....this tool is designed for wives who know and walk with Jesus, who know He is good, and who know "His ways and thoughts are higher than the heavens above the earth than ours" (Isa. 55:8,9)."

(This is a lesson I taught our World Changers & Giant Slayers classes on 10/29/23) What is secularism/humanism? So is there a person on...