Deuteronomy 30:9-14 And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: [...]

“Feeding Sheep or Amusing Goats?” by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892 An evil is in the professed camp of the Lord, so gross in its impudence, that the most shortsighted can hardly fail to notice it during the past few years.  It has developed at an abnormal rate, even for evil.  It has worked like leaven [...]

God hears the voice of the believer. This psalm points that it IS okay to prayer out loud. Sing your praises and prayer and petitions to God! God does hear His children. Go back to Psalm 115 for a moment. Psalm 115:2-8 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? (3) But our [...]

Basically, Baptists are Calvinistic. We believe that “Salvation is of the LORD,” and apart from His grace (the unmerited favor of God toward man), no one on earth would ever be saved! The vast majority of Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, and Greek Orthodox faiths are Arminian. They may declare their faith in the atoning work of [...]

Charles Spurgeon on Preachers: May I beg you carefully to judge every preacher, not by his elocutionary powers, not by his status in society, not by the respectability of his congregation, not by the prettiness of his church, but by this – Does he preach the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation? If [...]

Isaiah 30:9-11 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:  (10)  Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:  (11)  Get you out of the way, turn aside out [...]

Jeremiah 23:13-16 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.  (14)  I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from [...]

Jeremiah 23:1-9 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.  (2)  Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you [...]

A young man had just become pastor of a large church. At a reception given him by his people, one of the gossips, a woman with a dangerous tongue, came up and said, “I do not understand how you dared attempt the task of pleasing seven hundred people.” Quick as a flash the Lord gave [...]

There was a farmer who had three sons: Jim, John, and Sam. No one in the family ever attended church or had time for God. The pastor and the others in the church tried for years to interest the family in the things of God but to no avail. Then one day Sam was bitten [...]