5 Key Quotes from J.C. Ryle’s “Warnings to the Churches”

  1. BEWARE OF TRUSTING TEACHERS OF RELIGION “Beware of supposing that a teacher of religion is to be trusted, because although he holds some unsound views, he yet ‘teaches a great deal of truth.’ Such a teacher is precisely the man to do you harm: poison is always most dangerous when it is given in small doses and mixed with wholesome food. Beware of being taken in by the apparent earnestness of many of the teachers and upholders of false doctrine. Remember that zeal and sincerity and fervor are no proof whatever that a man is working for Christ, …

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Evidence of Spiritual Death

Reflections For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness. But unto us that are saved, it is the power of God. (I Cor. 1:18) You will note that Paul does NOT say that if a person thinks the Cross to be foolish (unnecessary or of no value — Greek) that God is going to punish them — by causing them to perish. No. Rather, he is saying that if a person thinks the Cross is foolish that it is evidence that they are ALREADY in the process of perishing. There is a reason for his conclusion: …

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Alone? – Not Alone! by T. Austin-Sparks

From “This Ministry” – Messages given at Honor Oak – Volume 3 “I, even I only, am left a prophet of the Lord” (1 Kings 18:22). “I, even I only, am left” (1 Kings 19:10,14). “Yet will I leave me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal” (1 Kings 19:18). “Then he mustered… seven thousand” (1 Kings 20:15). “Elijah… a man of like passions (nature) with us” (James 5:17). It is a gracious thing that, in recording the lives of His most used and representative servants, the Lord has never hidden their weaknesses. Most …

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Pit Principles

By Denise Kohlmeyer   Pits happen. Every day. To everyone. Even to God’s cherished children. Our lives’ landscapes are pock-marked with pits, of varying shapes, sizes and depths. I know! I’m a survivor of multiple pits myself. Mine came in the form of emotional abuse from a drug-addicted sibling, from flunking out of college, from being down-sized from a job I loved, from suffering a miscarriage, from being disinherited by my own father, from marital and parenting struggles, and from experiencing bouts of crippling fear and anxiety. Boy can I relate to the beloved Biblical character Joseph, who found himself …

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Revelation Msg 26 The seventy Weeks Prophecy Part II

  Revelation Msg 26: Continuing the Seventy Weeks Prophecy. Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. The purpose of the seventy sevens or 490 years is to accomplish six things. To Finish the Transgression To Make an End of Sins To Make Reconciliation for Iniquity To Bring in an Age of Righteousness To Cause a Cessation of Prophecy …

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