A teacher asked her student if he had done his homework. He said, “Yes”. Looking for evidence, she asked why his homework paper was still blank. He said he that when he did his homework his pencil just never touched the paper. He lacked evidence! Transition An evidence of abiding in Christ is doing right […]
When our boys were infants, they drank their mother’s milk for many months. That was normal. They ate no steak and chicken when they were a month old. When they began eating some foods, we had a food grinder that ground and mashed everything very fine. At that age, that too was normal. However, if […]
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Giving by Sacrifice, Grace & from Abundance 26 May 2019 AM – 2 Corinthians 8:2-3 – Shaun Whitmarsh [2Co 8:2-3 KJV] 2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. 3 For to [their] power, I bear record, yea, […]
In the latter part of the 17th century, German preacher August H. Francke founded an orphanage to care for the homeless children of Halle. One day when Francke desperately needed funds to carry on his work, a destitute Christian widow came to his door begging for a ducat, a gold coin. Because of his financial […]
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E. M. Bounds on page 53 of his book Preacher and Prayer wrote, “Prayer, to the preacher, is not simply the duty of his profession, a privilege, but it is a necessity. Air is not more necessary to the lungs than prayer is to the preacher. It is absolutely necessary for the preacher to pray. […]
[2Co 8:5 KJV] 5 And [this they did], not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God. In this passage, Paul is writing to the Church at Corinth to encourage them to participate in grace giving, or the support of missions, as the […]
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