Some of us are guilty of using the text. We have the idea we want, we find the text that appears to say what we want it to say. And then we quote it as if we are allowing the Bible to
Month: November 2009
Where is that which the true follower of Christ aims? Ellen Write wrote in Testimonies Volume 1 page 160 “Those who feel the constraining love of God do not ask how little may be given in order to obtain the heavenly reward;
We as preachers are often tempted to preach a 30 minute sit-com message. In those messages the great mysterious and sometimes surprising God is reduced to a simple understandable and always known entity. Instead of the God who sometimes surprises us we
Are you worshiping the true Christ or the false Christ? The true Christ doesn’t give us false promises of a lack of pain and suffering with this world, instead, He walks with us through the painful storms of this life and the
It is interesting that Christianity has become more and more a “individual” thing between me and God.  This mindset causes us to ignore the command to “neglect not the assembling of ourselves together.” (Hebrews 10:35) We come more and more to the
We have now looked at every one of the preachers in the book. This book is an important book for at least 2 reasons. First it is one of the few Adventist homiletics books in print. Secondly, it is specifically about Black