An episode from my distant past (1957) will illustrate Satan’s power to persuade church people that man is right and God is wrong. In Isaiah 5:20 the Lord warned that men call good evil and evil good. Both church and secular history reveal that many church doctrines are of heathen origin. See Simon of Samaria: […]

In the previous series we investigated the reaction of the Apostle Peter when the chips were down, how he failed miserably two times, only to bounce back and go on to be chief of God’s apostles. He eventually gave his life for God’s ministry and message. In those postings the Apostle Paul’s reactions to similar […]

“All have sinned and come short of the glory of God” is a Biblical statement known by every church person who has ever lived. One of those sins involves the failure of one’s faith at some point. The key to overcoming a momentary lapse in faith is to follow the Apostle Peter’s example by reaching […]

The Apostle Peter has literally “stepped out on faith” based on a single Word spoken from the darkness of a Sea of Galilee storm by a man named Jesus of Nazareth. His life hanging in a one-word balance, Peter is walking into history. As he made his way toward the form in the distance he […]

Faith comes from hearing (or reading) God’s Word (Rom. 10:17) and allowing It to do Its work (take root and grow) in Its readers and hearers. As this series will show, God’s true saints believe and act–thereby proving their faith–upon hearing or reading even one Word from the Lord if the circumstance so dictates. The […]

“The just(tified) shall live by faith” (Gal. 3:11). Justification is the removal of all “sins of the PAST” (Rom. 3:24,25). Following justification and conversion (not salvation) the question then becomes “now what?” What is the convert to do once Jesus Christ has cleansed him ? Now that his PAST sins have been removed, how does […]

In the past 19 postings I have brought out the Biblical fact that God’s Chosen People–the Israelites–comprise most of the populations of the United States and Britain, and that the populations of those nations are by-in-large the descendants of Joseph’s sons Manasseh and Ephraim respectively. Together they comprised the world’s only commonwealth and the world’s […]

If anyone wonders what men have endured in order to deliver God’s message he need only look at the lives of Jesus Christ, the apostles and the prophets. One such prophet was Jeremiah who was given the task of removing the Scepter from the Davidic monarchy located in the Holy Land and delivering it to […]

Recalling that the Bible was written to, for and about Israel, let us consider God’s instructions to the Prophet Jeremiah found in Jeremiah 30:1,2. Recall that this command took place some 100 years after the 10 northern tribes (called Israel) had been defeated, enslaved, scattered and Gentilized–lost as far as the world was concerned. God […]

In Jeremiah 1:4,5,10 we find the Almighty speaking to the young prophet concerning his two-fold commission: “Before I formed you in the belly I knew you ; and before you came out of the womb I sanctified you (set him aside for holy use); and I ordained you a prophet among the NATIONS …. See, […]