Having spent much time (in previous blogs) emphasizing our responsibility to be ambassadors, heralds, emissaries of God in reaching the lost, consider now how meaningless and useless all of it is, without God’s work. Here, please consider the...
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How is it that man’s work in evangelism works together with God’s power in awakening dead men? Though we may never be able to unpack the depth of this mystery, it is essential that we understand it in a basic way. Otherwise, we easily can get...
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“Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us, we implore you, on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.” Pleading…pleading…pleading…Would the sovereign over the universe actually condescend and plead with...
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Oh, dear one. Blood-bought, redeemed, dear one. Can you hear the Savior calling you into the ministry of reconciliation? It would be enough for Him just to command us, would it not? If the King says to His subject, “Go,” then surely that is...
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2 Corinthians 5:10-11— “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we...
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Can you say: “Lord, send me to whom You will-only send me. Let that power come upon me, that I may win souls for Jesus Christ? May we have no will but God’s sweet will. Oh, that our wills may be swallowed up in God’s will.” These precious...
Read more What joy awaits us every day! Jesus has not only saved us, He has–and this is beyond belief–actually called us into His joyful labor of reaching the lost, broken, and blind people of the world! We get to do this! And the plentiful...
Read moreThis does not take a nuclear physicist to understand. God tells us to love our neighbor as ourselves. I thank God that Sue Ramage, in March of 1973, cared about the heathen guy named Chris Peeler. They both were seniors at West York High...
Read moreFirst, and foremost, everything we do should be done to glorify God—pure and simple. Because God has commanded us to GO, we are then glorifying Him to obey His command. Consider . . . “Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who...
Read moreSo if not Christ, the fairy godmother or the super-psychiatrist, THEN WHAT? Continuing from his words from last blog, Packer continues… ” . . . we have to go deeper than this. To preach sin means not to make capital out of...
Read moreOh, how we have fallen! “Come to Jesus, and He will help your marriage…Come to Jesus and He will bless you financially…Come to Jesus and He will make you feel better about yourself…Come to Jesus and He will improve your...
Read moreBelieve it or not, this issue has been raised to me a number of times over the years. Can you see Satan’s strategy here? If he can’t keep Christ followers away from the highways and byways via lukewarmness or lack of compassion or...
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