Emotional Martyrs
Joanne Lowe

“Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.” Proverbs 12:25, King James Version

One of the definitions for the word “martyr” in Webster’s Dictionary is “a person who voluntarily suffers death as a penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion”. I have listened to my Pastor preach the same sermon twenty one times because the sermon is all about Jesus and the precious people who are being killed because they refuse to renounce their faith in Jesus. full story...

Start Your Week with a Smile!
By MikeysFunnies.com

Read a Good Obit Lately?

Gallagher opened the morning newspaper and was dumbfounded to read in the obituary column that he had died. He quickly phoned his best friend, Finney.

"Did you see the paper?" asked Gallagher. "They say I died!!"

"Yes, I saw it!" replied Finney. "Where are you callin' from?" more laughs...

I Need help!
By David Church

I Need Help!

I am a pastor just like you. It’s Monday morning again and we had a great Sunday service yesterday. The Lord moved in a special way; people's lives were touched and changed. We even baptized someone this week, yet it already seems so long ago and so far away.
 
There are so many things going through my mind today. I feel like the enemy is trying to sift me like wheat. I don't know where to start. I have meetings to organize; leaders to train; sermons to prepare; Bible studies to teach; sick saints to visit; visitors to follow up on; letters to write; calendars to schedule; calls to return; counseling to conduct; a baptismal to fix, along with many other things--not to mention my own personal prayer and devotion time. Needless to say, I am feeling overwhelmed. full newsletter story...

An Incredible Day In The History Of Haiti
By Jerry Miel (Feb 17)

I think that I will remember this day as one of the most significant in my life, not because of what I did, but for it's meaning...

Today was the one month anniversary of the great Haitian earthquake.

About 3 days ago the Haitian President announced that there would be 3 days of holiday from work for the purpose of fasting and prayer. This is absolutely historic. If you have ever been in Haiti as a visitor or missionary, could you ever have imagined such a pronouncement? Could you image such an announcementfrom the U.S. President? This morning I saw a young Haitian- American woman, the leader of a work team, crying because the Americans could not understand the incredible importance of this day and wanted to go about business as usual. Remember, it was only about 6 years ago that a former Haitian president called the nation to come together to rededicate the nation to Satan. full story....

A Biblical View of the Law of Confession
By Minister Sylvia Huffnagle

Study on the law of confession

I can’t find the law of confession in the Bible, but I did find that there are many laws governing situations that were not revealed in the Old Testament as laws.

Rom: 3:27: Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

Rom:7:22: For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

Rom:7:23: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Rom: 7:25: I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

Rom:8:2: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. full story...

Great Quotes On Holiness
From the Book, "Holiness The Key To Revival"
By Patricia Knowles

“There will be no great Revival until the people of God are deeply convicted of their need of holiness.” -MAJOR ALLISTAIRE SMITH (Salvation Army).

“A God-sent Revival must ever be related to holiness” – DUNCAN CAMPBELL.

“Holiness has been the message of saints of God down the centuries, and was the foundation of the glorious Revivals of Christianity under the original Quakers, Methodists and the Salvation Army and wherever it is truly known and experienced, it is the bringer-in of Revival today.” - PAGET WILKES.

“That such widespread misunderstanding should exist about the word (sanctification) and its meaning, is a spiritual disaster. If there is one New Testament term more than another which calls for rescue it is that precious, expressive word, Sanctification.“ –SIDLOW BAXTER. full story...

Countless Thoughts
By Sandra McGarrity

How precious are your thoughts about me, O God.
They cannot be numbered! I can't even count them;
they outnumber the grains of sand!
And when I wake up, you are still with me!
~ Psalm 139:17-18, NLT

The above scripture was my e-mail verse for the day. I have always loved this passage and have been in awe of it also. If God had one thought about me today it would be precious but this verse says He thinks about us so much we can’t possibly count the times. That number is more than the grains of sand. It is said that if we could possibly count all the grains of sand in the world, the number would have changed by the time we began counting. I can’t even get my brain around this idea. full story...

Did it take 15 minutes for David's 5 Stones for 5 Giants? Part I
By Minister Princess Abbott

Where do Giants come from?

A lot of people think the Story of David and Goliath was cut and dry. Boy meets Giant. Boy kills Giant. The end. Few take the time to see David’s character and faith that allowed God to move through him. David humbled himself so that the Living God could use him as a vessel to kill the Giant. Let us try to know more about the person then what you’ve heard. Because once you know, you can better appreciate the person. He did not arrive overnight as the “Giant” slayer. David had testimonials of the Bear and the Lion then before the Giant. All seemed to be trying to take something that was not theirs.

In I Samuel 17:1- 49 as the main scriptures, there was... full story...