Reasonable Service How do we know what our reasonable service is to be unless we search the word of God, ponder it, pray about it, and ask “Lord, what would you have me to do in light thereof?” Besides, what is our reasonable service? Didn’t the Apostle Paul say “with the mind I myself SERVE…
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Exhortation: Throughly Furnished Unto All Good Works
Throughly Furnished Unto All Good Works How am I to know how to engage myself in every situation? How am I to be careful to maintain good works? How am I to seek to adorn the Gospel of Christ? And how am I to maintain a conversation that becometh a Gospel profession? By heeding the…
(Tri-Fold Tract 1) The Gospel of Christ
The Gospel of Christ Nothing should be of greater urgency than the salvation of our souls for we all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Rom 3:23). If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the Truth is not in us (1 John 1:8). What is the consequence of…
(Study Notes) Proverbs 1:2
Proverbs 1:2 Matthew 13:10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? 11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. 12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be…
Exhortation: Are You Making Captivity Difficult?
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 4 (For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity…
The Importance of a Well-Balanced Diet
The Importance of a Well-Balanced Diet Proverbs 3:1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: 2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. 3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of…
Speak To The Rock
Speak To The Rock Pastor Jesse Gistand Audio sermon 11/05/2006 – 67m Numbers 20:1-13 Numbers 20:1-13 Then came the children of Israel, [even] the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. 2 And there was no water for the congregation:…
The Potential Idolatry of Self-Abasement
The Potential Idolatry of Self-Abasement We are wretched men in light of this body of death; we are unprofitable servants as a result of it. We know the plague of our own heart (as it relates to the ever-presence of the outer man and not to the new heart the Lord has given us). We…
The Preaching of the Cross
The Preaching of the Cross But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. Galatians 6:14 The Christian is instructed to deny himself and to bear his cross daily as he follows Christ. This is…
The Life of Saving Faith
The Life of Saving Faith Pastor Jesse Gistand Audio sermon 03/02/2014 – 64m Hebrews 11:1-4 Hebrews 11:1-4 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good report. 3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things…
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