One thing young people dislike is hypocrisy in their parents. If you are not an active growing Christian, you may fool other Christians, but you will never fool your teens. If you say one thing and do another, your teens will rebel. If you sing at church and swear at home, you will lose your […]
When I asked many of you for character qualities that you want in a close friend, I got answers like caring, reliable, encouraging, loyal, dependable, godly, faithful supportive, generous, kind, positive, uplifting, Christian, and rebuker. Those are good qualities! However, when it comes to an example to follow, you will never find a better example […]
This evening we are going to review and then pick up where we left off in this message last Sunday. “Depending on statistics and how they are taken, consistently we see anywhere from 60 to 80 percent of all children who grow up in an Independent Baptist home do not go on to serve God.” […]
“Depending on statistics and how they are taken, consistently we see anywhere from 60 to 80 percent of all children who grow up in an Independent Baptist home do not go on to serve God.” Terry Coomer We do not want our children to be puppet or robots that learn to do what we want […]
Read Ephesians 6:10-18. Our spiritual armour includes wearing God’s promises about truth, righteousness, and peace. It includes hiding behind faith in God, wearing salvation’s benefits, and handling effectively the Bible – the Spirit’s sword. God follows this with a charge to pray. Charles Spurgeon, the well-known English Baptist preacher of the 1800’s said, “When you […]
In spiritual warfare as in physical warfare, the effectiveness of any weapon is directly proportionate to the efficiency of the one operating it. For this reason, during a late, great war, the U.S. Army assigned a new recruit one rifle which he kept throughout his training. It became a part of him. The recruit handled […]
Every piece of God’s armour has one thing in common – the promises of God’s Word. God’s promises of truth, righteousness, peace, and faith are our armour. Tonight we will discover the same about the helmet of salvation. The last time we returned to Australia after a trip to the USA, we were reminded of […]
A shield is a thin, flat, hard, object that blocks intruders. A car’s windscreen is a shield that blocks the wind, rain, cold, and bugs, that fly at the car when travelling. A raincoat is a shield that blocks rain. Safety glasses shield the eyes from flying particles. Far more important than any other shield […]
Two painters were asked to paint a picture illustrating peace. The first painted a beautiful evening scene in the foreground of which was a lake, its surface absolutely calm and unruffled. Trees surrounded it, meadows stretched away to the distant cattle gently browsing; a little cottage, the setting sun-all spoke of perfect rest. The second […]
In the warm climates of North, Central, and South America lives a small animal called an Armadillo. Because the armadillo has only small teeth well back in its mouth, it cannot bite in self-defence. Thus, for its protection, God gave the Armadillo body armour. It is made up of many small plates of bony armour […]