Today we are asking, What is the purpose of the local church? In other words, why do we as Christians gather together in local congregations? Continued at Source: What’s the Purpose of … the Church? – Tim Challies
HELP WANTED During my recent trip to Houston one of the houses that we “mudded out” (the term we use for gutting a house of all the wet furniture, appliances, possessions, drywall, flooring etc. of the homeowners) belonged to a widowed Hispanic woman named Mara. Upon arriving at her home the first day I greeted … More HOUSTON – A Widow In Need – James 1:27
As many of you know Faith Builders Ministry deployed to Houston with Eight Days of Hope. My first impression as a rapid responder was Houston was much like Denham Springs, LA last year in that the infrastructure was intact (Unlike Katrina in Hancock Co. Mississippi) but the internal damage was tremendous both to property and … More Houston Rapid Response
Jeff Robinson | September 8, 2017 At 9:51 p.m. on August 31, 1886, the most powerful earthquake ever to hit the East Coast struck South Carolina and pummeled Charleston. By 9:52 p.m. that morning, more than 150 people were dead and nearly 90 percent of the historic city’s masonry buildings were reduced to rubble and … More ‘God Uses Natural Disasters as a Preacher’ H.H. Tucker and the 1886 Charleston Earthquake
I will be heading out for my initial trip this Sunday 10 September and returning late on the 21st or 22nd and then will make a second trip October 1-15 unless things change and they have me go to Florida. As always your prayers are coveted.
Here is an excellent Biblical article on the Hurricanes. Tom Ascol | September 6, 2017 @ The Founders Blog Irma and Harvey may go down as the Bonnie and Clyde of tropical hurricanes. My extended family in Texas suffered great loss from the former (though all of their lives were spared, by God’s grace), and … More What is God Saying to Us?
August 4, 2017 Second London Confession: Chapter IX The Second London Confession [2LC] affirms free will plainly. “God hath indued the Will of Man, with that natural liberty, and power of acting upon choice; that it is neither forced, not by any necessity of nature determined to do good or evil.” Continued at Source: Of Free Will
Are you living with someone who has this issue or maybe you are that bomb waiting to go off. My friend’s post is spot on. Continued at Source: A Short Fuse Of Anger…
POVERTY AND GODLINESS I will also leave in the midst of thee and afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the Lord – Zephaniah 3:12 Poor persons, even under rags may be very much like God. – John Owen In that fire in which the chaff is burnt, gold sparleth. … More PURITAN QUOTE(S) FOR TODAY –19 & 20 August
GOD AS A FRIEND OR ENEMY There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother – Proverbs 18:24 He was turned to be their enemy – Isiah 63:10 God is the sweetest friend, but the worst enemy. – Thomas Watson I would rather be in hell with God than in heaven without him, and … More PURITAN QUOTE(S) FOR TODAY –17 & 18 August
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