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…
Category: 05. The Holy Bible
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…
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 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…
A Holistic Hermeneutic
A Holistic Hermeneutic Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. Psalm 119:18 Finding Christ in the scripture is a deep, deep blessing; it reminds us over and over again of the totality of who He is and what He has done. Seeing Christ, by faith, in His word is…
The Heart Of The Righteous Studieth To Answer
The Heart Of The Righteous Studieth To Answer The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things Proverbs 15:28 The heart it says; not the hearts but the heart. The righteous have but one heart, the inner man created after the image of God, yoked to…
The Like Figure
Please note that this and other posts on the matter will likely be deleted/archived in preparation for a master article to help reduce redundancy and to streamline the listing and discussion of all key points. Also, contrary to the below, antitypos does not always mean just the antitype; it can also be the type of the antitype – so…
They That Were Scattered Abroad Went Everywhere Preaching The Word
They That Were Scattered Abroad Went Everywhere Preaching The Word There is a teaching that suggests that God only saves His elect via pulpit preaching and never (or rarely) from the faithful witnessing of a Christian to those about them. The belief is that most all witnessing, most all attempts to declare the Gospel, and to reason with the hearers,…
Spiritual Wrestlings 