Tag: Church
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Facing New Days Confidently
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE FACING NEW DAYS CONFIDENTLY Time. What is it? The seconds, minutes or hours on your wrist watch? For the ancients was time just the shadow on their sun dial? Is time the gauging of the midnight hour on your old grandfather clock? Is it the grains of sand seeping through the hour glass?…
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Living by Pathetic Decisions or Overcoming by Divine Promises?
“LIVING BY PATHETIC DECISIONS OR OVERCOMING BY DIVINE PROMISES?” BY: J.FARRELL FISHER, SEPTEMBER 6-7, 2018 There was a quite-shocking news’ release on my computer recently from Billy Graham Evangelistic Association saying, “Nearly 20 million Americans struggle with depression. Over 42,000 commit suicide each year.” It also highlighted Psalm 34:18 (ESV), “The Lord is near to…
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ME-CENTERED LIFE-STYLE OR THE ‘MASTER-ED’ “NEW CREATION”?
ME-CENTERED LIFE-STYLE OR THE ‘MASTER-ED’ “NEW CREATION”? J.FARRELL FISHER, September 6-8, 2018 Frank Wright, PhD., and resident and CEO of ‘D.James Kennedy Ministries’, sent me an E-Mail about “gender confusion abounds”, from his book, “The Great Confusion”, saying: “We are living in an increasingly “me-centered” culture and perhaps there’s no greater evidence of this than…
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Remaining Flawed or ‘Faithing the Finished Work’
“REMAINING FLAWED OR ‘FAITHING THE FINISHED WORK’”? BY:J.FARRELL FISHER,April 24, 2019 Sinners, willing to remain as they are, but pleased to ‘acknowledge’ Jesus Christ, profess ‘faith’, and join a ‘church’ ARE ‘flawed professing disciples’ asserting their ‘completion’ “in Christ”, when HE, the Resurrected, Reigning King of kings and Lord of lords, ‘knocked’, but wasn’t allowed…
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A Church’s, a Pastor’s, and a Disciple’s Ministry to a Lost, Needy, Sinful World
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN “A CHURCH’S, A PASTOR’S, A DISCIPLE’S MINISTRY TO A LOST, NEEDY, SINFUL WORLD” VERY ‘WEIGHTY,CONVICTING VERSES’ RESIDES IN JAMES I:26-27 WHERE THE BROTHER OF JESUS, JAMES, WROTE: “IF ANY MAN AMONG YOU,SEEM TO BE RELIGIOUS, AND BRIDLES NOT HIS TONGUE, BUT DECEIVES HIS OWN HEART, THIS MAN’S RELIGION IS VAIN. PURE RELIGION AND…
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Adaptable Churches or Apostolic Assemblies?
CHAPTER THIRTY “ADAPTABLE CHURCHES OR APOSTOLIC ASSEMBLIES?” In Exodus 19:5-6 we find an illuminating statement from God about His “chosen people.” And you have to ask, “Did the people God intended His word for become the “special treasure to Him above all people”? Sadly, some didn’t, but with thankful hearts some did! What did Holy…
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Awakenings! Necessity!
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE “AWAKENINGS’ NECESSITY!” EPHESIANS 5:14 God says: “Awake, you who ‘SLEEP’, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light!” Isn’t it amazing to you that the Holy Word of God is so filled with biblical Truth about those “choosing” to “live in the dark,” “sleepy-time lives”, totally unaware of their ‘fleshly destinies’?…