Joseph was an ordinary Jewish carpenter who was engaged to an ordinary Jewish girl about 15-years-old; her name was Mary. The New Testament writers tell us nothing Joseph spoke, not a single word, but he certainly can be admired for how he lived and what he did. Joseph was a man who liked to stay […]
https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2020/january-web-only/beth-moore-god-uses-your-mistakes-for-good.html By: Beth Moore Years ago, when the number of attendees at Living Proof Live events started swelling—and, consequently, scaring me half to death—I decided that God would be most honored (and I’d be most reliant on him) if I fasted from the time each conference began until after it ended. If effectiveness increased in […]
ChristianityToday.com/ct/2019/November/cross-is-our-stairway-to-heaven.html Our salvation comes not from someone on our level, but from someone infinitely above it. The Cross Is Our Stairway to Heaven By: Jen Wilkin One of the most common evangelistic tools is a simple drawing of two cliffs with a chasm between. On one cliff is a figure representing the sinner, and on […]
By: Frank G. Tunstall, D. Min. “Jesus, being “full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River and was led by the Spirit into the desert, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry” (Matthew 4:1; Mark […]
www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/july-august/elliot-clark-evangelism-exiles-sharing-gospel. THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE MOST CHALLENGING ARTICLES I’VE READ IN A LONG TIME. IT IS A MUST READ. EVERY PASTOR AND CHURCH CAN BENEFIT. Pastor Frank By: Elliott Clark I first awakened to this reality while doing language study in Central Asia. As I took a course in spiritual terminology, a missionary teacher […]
By: Frank G. Tunstall, D. Min. When Jesus wanted to teach about receiving the Holy Spirit, He chose to tell a story about a man who was on a journey and stopped about midnight at his friend’s house. Of course, the traveler was hungry, but the host was out of bread. So, he went […]
By: Frank G. Tunstall, D. Min. The Lord had His hand on a young man who was born in a small hamlet in Southern Bohemia about 1370 A.D. (modern Czechcloslavokia). John Hus was destined to become a revolutionary. His parents were poor, and his mother vowed him to the priesthood when he was a […]
By: Frank G. Tunstall, D. Min. In a culture that is birthing more and more Biblical illiteracy, it is imperative that we re-discover the Holy Spirit who authored the Holy Scriptures. A foundational responsibility of the Spirit as a member of the Trinity was to give to mankind a written revelation of God that presents […]
By: Frank Tunstall “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God” (Luke 1:35-36, NIV). King David is the prophet who foretold the Heavenly Father has a Son (Psalm 2:7). The process is […]
By: Frank Tunstall, D. Min. In four passages commonly called the Servant Songs, the prophet Isaiah foretold that Messiah would come to serve the redemptive plan of His Father. The four songs sat on the shelf of prophetic history for about eight centuries before Jesus began His ministry. Since then, they have become so […]