And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken. (1 Kings 18:24) These are the words of the prophet Elijah...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
In Bethabera, beyond Jordan, a group of men were sent to enquire of John as to who he was. Instituting a new ordinance and preaching a strange doctrine, the great Sanhedrin demanded an explanation. After exhausting their speculations they...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
“But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. (2 Corinthians11:3)The word beguiled means to seduce completely. Seduction is...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The biggest obstacle to the Jew was the concept that everything in his religion and in his history had no intrinsic value at all except as it pointed to and pictured the coming redeemer. The stumbling stone was that everything God demanded of...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
3/31 Taking Out the Trash Darvin PruittIn Philippians 3 the apostle Paul talks about men and women who look to the flesh to find a confidence and assurance of a relationship with God. He likens it to an account of money. We deposit our...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
3/25 Church = Two Songs and a Sermon Darvin Pruitt A comment was recently made to a member of our church “that all they ever do over there is sing a couple of songs and listen to a man preach.” What is inferred is that we do not...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
3/14 Seeing the Glory of God Darvin Pruit 2 Corinthians 4: 4-6 The glory of God in redemption is the Redeemer. It is that holy union of God and man in one person. To declare Him is to declare the whole counsel of God. To know Him is to know...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
3/9 An Appetite for Grace Darvin Pruitt A believer is a person who has tasted that the Lord is gracious. He has not simply read a book on the subject, heard a message on it, or noticed it in a verse of scripture. He has tasted it,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
3/3 Be Not Afraid, Only Believe Mark 5: 36 Darvin Pruitt These are the words our Lord spoke to Jairus when his friends came telling him of his daughter's death and of the lack of necessity for him to trouble the master any further. Natural...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
2/19 The Living Will and Its Testator Darvin Pruitt It is by the revelation of Christ in the sinner's heart that God persuades him to venture his soul in hope of a full, free, and complete reconciliation to God. He awakens the sinner by a new...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
