We hope that you had a good Christmas and an extra-special Lord's Day yesterday. As we approach the new year, you may be looking for a good motivator to change or expand your spiritual life. This video with Pastor John Samuel Barnett may help do...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Another question you might have is what is the difference then between a trial and chastisement. In this week's Q&A, Pastor John Samuel Barnett gives the answer. https://youtu.be/JfFdhDVXkWM(2014MAR09 - Q&A-60)
You might have some questions about the difference between what are trials and what are temptations. This teaching by Pastor John Samuel Barnett will help and teach us to identify what we might be experiencing....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Prayer is both an offensive and defensive weapon for the Christian. By it, we are able to ask the God we have a relationship with to take control and we are able to ask for protection from whatever we might be facing. Let us seek to devote ourself...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Mark 12:27 - "He is not the God of the dead, but of the living..." God has created a universe where cause and effect are in use. For each cause there is an effect and each cause is a previous effect going back to God being the First Cause. When we...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
As we delve into the Lord's Prayer, we can come to understand one of the helps it generates is something akin to a doctor's report. A list or guide that allows us to know when we are on the right path to stay on that path. And when we falter, we...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
A very short answer to a very important question as we discussed prayer this week. If prayer is so important to the Christian walk, why do so few see it as necessary? https://youtu.be/_qRY9gKIF-I(2014JUL27 - Q&A-73)
When the term "spiritual warfare" is said, one might think on that great novel by C.S. Lewis "The Screwtape Letters". In it, the senior demon, Screwtape, is writing a series of letters to his nephew demon, Wormwood. Reading that book almost...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
How we deal with bitterness is how we deal with all sins - through prayer and repentance. For the Christian, prayer is one of the biggest offensive weapons we have to combat every evil. Jesus modeled that reliance on prayer. When the disciples...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Yesterday we look at the diagnostic test for bitterness. For those who are infected with any disease the question they want answered the most is, "Is there a treatment?" followed by "How effective is it?" Pastor John Samuel Barnett gives the steps...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
