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Safety, Fulness, and Sweet Refreshment in Christ - sermon New Window	Jonathan Edwards	(1703-1758)	Isaiah 32:2 "And a man shall be as an hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." In these words we may observe, 1. The person who is here prophesied of and commended, viz. the Lord Jesus Christ, the King spoken of in the preceding verse, who shall reign in righteousness.
Safety in the LORD - promises New Window	Katie Stewart	11-11-97	Prov. 21:31 "safety is of the LORD"
"Salvation Always Conditional" -study New Window	Charles G. Finney	(1792-1875)	From "The Oberlin Evangelist" -- New Window Sermons and Lectures 1840 Lecture XXIV I. What is intended by one's thinking that he standeth. II. Show in what such a confidence may be founded. III. That this confidence, whatever may be its foundation, cannot secure the soul against falling into sin and hell. IV. That continued watchfulness and wakeful, activity of soul, are indispensable to continued holiness and final salvation.
Salvation in the LORD - promises New Window	Katie Stewart	1-13-99	Ps. 85:4,7,9 "Turn us, O God of our Salvation, and cause Thine anger toward us to cease... 7 Show us Thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us Thy Salvation... 9 Surely His Salvation is nigh them that fear Him; that glory may dwell in our land."
Salvation is of the Jews Or, Pray for the Conversion of Israel -study New Window	Tom Stewart	5-19-99	"Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for Salvation is of the Jews" (John 4:22). We, the Church, are bondservants of the LORD Jesus Christ, "Who gave Himself a ransom for all" (1Timothy 2:6), and we owe the Gospel to all men-- "to the Jew first, and also to the Greek" (Romans 1:16). But, especially do we owe the Gospel to Israel, for they transmitted to us Jehovah's "Covenants of Promise" (Ephesians 2:12)-- "unto them were committed the Oracles of God [the Scriptures]" (Romans 3:2)-- that pointed us to Jesus Christ. Israel will soon be converted to Jesus the Messiah, Who is the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6). "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem" (Psalm 122:6). Pray that the LORD will fulfill His Word that Israel will again know Him, i.e., "thou shalt know that I am the LORD" (Isaiah 49:23).
"Sanctification - No.'s 1 - 9" -study New Window	Charles G. Finney	(1792-1875)	From "The Oberlin Evangelist" -- New Window Sermons and Lectures 1840 Lectures I - IX I. Define the meaning of the term sanctification. II. What I understand by entire sanctification. III. Notice the distinction between entire and permanent sanctification. IV. Show what is not implied in entire sanctification. V. What is implied in entire sanctification. VI. Show that this state is attainable in this life. VII. Answer some objections. VIII. Show when it is attainable. IX. How it is attainable.
Sanctification in the LORD - promises New Window	Katie Stewart	9-4-98	1 Cor. 1:30 "But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, Who of God is made unto us Wisdom, and Righteousness, and Sanctification, and Redemption."
SCOURBY'S AUDIO BIBLE with GUNN'S GUIDE to the Bible -study New Window	Alexander Scourby & Robert Gunn		Rob's overview of the Scripture accompanies the "best-ever" verbal narration of the King James Version Bible.
Searching the Scriptures -book extract New Window	Andrew Murray	(1828-1917)	An excerpt from "The New Life Words of God for Young Disciples of Christ" (Chapter 51) ---- New Window
See the Day of GOD Appear! --Christian poetry New Window	Anonymous		Lo! He cometh! countless trumpets Blow to raise the sleeping dead; 'Midst ten thousand saints and angels See their great exalted Head. Hallelujah!...
Seek the LORD - study New Window	Katie Stewart	10-30-99	"The LORD is good unto them that wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him." (Lamentations 3:25). "The soul that seeketh Him" seeks that which is important to Him. Whatever is important to His Kingdom and pertains to His Righteousness is preeminently important to Him. Therefore, seeking the LORD certainly includes seeking that which benefits His Kingdom and justifies His Righteousness.
"Sermons from the Penny Pulpit" - sermons New Window	Charles G. Finney	(1792-1875)	These sermons were preached by Mr. Finney during his great revivals in London. Thousands came to the LORD Jesus Christ. Forty-two Sermons in All! Sample: REGENERATION THE KINGDOM OF GOD UPON EARTH. PLEASING GOD.   CHRIST MAGNIFYING THE LAW. HEART SEARCHING.   HOLINESS ESSENTIAL TO SALVATION. THE PROMISES OF GOD.   THE CHRISTIAN'S RULE OF LIFE. CHRIST THE MEDIATOR.   SEEKING HONOUR FROM MEN. PROVING GOD.   THE CONVERSION OF CHILDREN. HARDENING THE HEART.   THE INFINITE WORTH OF THE SOUL. REFUGES OF LIES.   PURITY OF HEART AND LIFE. QUENCHING THE SPIRIT.   THE SINNER'S SELF-CONDEMNATION. LITTLE SINS.   THE SPIRIT CEASING TO STRIVE. THE RATIONALITY OF FAITH.   A PUBLIC PROFESSION OF CHRIST. ACCEPTABLE PRAYER.   THE WHOLE COUNSEL OF GOD. THE SINNER'S SELF-DESTRUCTION.   THE AWFUL INGRATITUDE OF THE SINNER. NOT FAR FROM THE KINGDOM OF GOD.   THE CERTAIN DOOM OF THE IMPENTITENT. Excerpt: Let not men deceive themselves, and suppose that because they are moral, they have done all that is required of them! Suppose a man is exempted from punishment, is he fitted for heaven? Has he come into sympathy with God? Is he prepared to enjoy God? could he dwell happily with the righteous in heaven? What sort of place could heaven be if you could enjoy it? You have not come into sympathy with Christ; you reject Christ; you reject the Sabbath; you reject the Holy Ghost; and can you think that a supposed morality will answer your turn? Let me warn you to flee away from such a refuge of lies as that! Let me say before I sit down to those who profess to be religious, who profess to be born of God. Is your religion a thing which can be known? Do your neighbours know it? Does your family know it? or are you hiding somewhere? behind some refuge of lies? Have you got behind that deacon? for you may make a refuge of lies of him! Have you got behind your minister? for you may make a refuge of lies of him! Don't hide yourselves anywhere! Be satisfied with nothing but Christ. Don't get behind that woman! Put no false standard before you. Set no standard but Christ before you! Be satisfied with no opinions that don't mould your life. Be satisfied with no religion that is not the life of your souls. Flee away from every source of error, every refuge of lies, and trust only in that which will mold your character, sanctify your life, and make you blessed forever. I beg of you to think upon these things.
"Sermons of Charles H. Spurgeon" - sermons New Window	C. H. Spurgeon	(1834-1892)	"Ay, and note too, that the trials of Christians are such as would in themselves lead us into sin, for I take it that our translators would not have placed the word 'temptation' in the text, and the Revisionists would not have retained it, if they had not felt that there was a colouring of temptation in its meaning, and that 'trial' was hardly the word. The natural tendency of trouble is not to sanctify, but to induce sin. A man is very apt to become unbelieving under affliction: that is a sin. He is apt to murmur against God under it: that is a sin. He is apt to put forth his hand to some ill way of escaping from his difficulty: and that would be sin. Hence we are taught to pray, 'Lead us not into temptation; because trial has in itself a measure of temptation'; and if it were not neutralized by abundant grace it would bear us towards sin. I suppose that every test must have in it a measure of temptation. The Lord cannot be tempted of evil, neither tempteth he any man; but this is to be understood of his end and design. He entices no man to do evil; but yet He tries the sincerity and faithfulness of men by placing them where sin comes in their way, and does its best or its worst to ensnare them: His design being that the uprightness of His servants may thus be proved, both to themselves and others. We are not taken out of this world of temptation, but we are kept in it for our good. Because our nature is depraved it makes occasions for sin, both out of our joys and our trials, but by grace we overcome the tendency of nature, and so derive benefit from tribulation." -taken from "All Joy in All Trials"
"Sermons on Gospel Themes" - sermons New Window	C. G. Finney	(1792-1875)	"These sermons were preached by Pres. Finney at Oberlin during the years 1845-1861... Few preachers in any age have surpassed Pres. Finney in clear and well-defined views of conscience, and of man's moral convictions; few have been more fully at home in the domain of law and government; few have learned more of the spiritual life from experience and from observation; not many have discriminated the true from the false more closely, or have been more skillful in putting their points clearly and pungently. Hence, these sermons under God were full of spiritual power. They are given to the public in this form, in the hope that at least a measure of the same wholesome saving power may never fail to bless the reader." -HENRY COWLES. Excellent! Highly Recommended!
Sermons on Important Subjects - sermons New Window	Charles G. Finney	(1792-1875)	Sample Quote: "I endeavored to show that a change of heart is not that in which a sinner is passive, but that in which he is active. That the change is not physical, but moral. That it is the sinner's own act. That it consists in changing his mind, or disposition, in regard to the supreme object of pursuit. A change in the end at which he aims, and not merely in the means of obtaining his end. A change in the governing choice or preference of the mind. That it consists in preferring the glory of God, and the interests of his kingdom, to one's own happiness, and to every thing else. That it is a change from a state of selfishness in which a person prefers his own interest above every thing else, to that disinterested benevolence that prefers God's happiness and glory, and the interests of his kingdom, to his own private happiness." -from "How to Change Your Heart", by CHARLES G. FINNEY. CONTENTS. SERMON I. SINNERS BOUND TO CHANGE THEIR OWN HEARTS. SERMON II. HOW TO CHANGE YOUR HEART. SERMON III. TRADITIONS OF THE ELDERS. SERMON IV. TOTAL DEPRAVITY. SERMON V. TOTAL DEPRAVITY. SERMON VI. WHY SINNERS HATE GOD. SERMON VII. GOD CANNOT PLEASE SINNERS. SERMON VIII. CHRISTIAN AFFINITY. SERMON IX. STEWARDSHIP. SERMON X. DOCTRINE OF ELECTION. SERMON XI. REPROBATION. SERMON XII. LOVE OF THE WORLD.
excerpt from: Set the Trumpet to Thy Mouth - prophecy New Window	David Wilkerson	1985	America is going to be destroyed by fire! Sudden destruction is coming and few will escape. Unexpectedly, and in one hour, a hydrogen holocaust will engulf America -- and this nation will be no more.
Seven Reasons Why God Must Remove (Rapture) His People - study New Window	Katie Stewart	2004	"First, 'Except the LORD of Hosts had left unto us a very small Remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah' (Isaiah 1:9). Such a time as has never been before is coming, and cannot come until the Remnant be removed. The Restraining Influence of the Holy Spirit as felt through the saltiness of True Believers must be removed through a Pre-Tribulational Rapture, then the Seven Year Tribulation of Daniel's Seventieth Week can begin. 'For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only He who now letteth [restrains] will let [restrain], until He [the Holy Spirit] be taken out of the way' (2Thessalonians 2:7)."
From the book CHRISTIAN FOUNDATIONS - study Seven Reasons Why I Believe... New Window	Ian R. K. Paisley		Seven Reasons Why I Believe THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD ---New Window "The more I study the calamity which follows the rejection of the Bible the more I am convinced that the Bible is the inbreathed Word of God. In view of this impregnable fact, surely we need to get back to the Bible, back to Bible preaching, back to Bible praying and back to Bible practicing. A revival of Bible Christianity alone can save the situation. A rediscovery of the Word of God brought about the glorious Reformation of four-hundred years ago and thank God the Bible dynamite is just as potent today. Let us then let the Bible rule our hearts and homes and refuse to support those who dare to trifle with it in the pulpit. Above all things, let us seize the unfailing promises of the Book and never rest night nor day from prayer until the God of the Bible visits us with a gracious revival." Seven Reasons Why I Believe in THE VIRGIN BIRTH OF CHRIST ---New Window "When human impotence bows to that answer of divine omnipotence the Miracle of the Virgin Birth can be whole-heartedly accepted. He who questions the Virgin Birth challenges the almightiness of God. To discredit the Virgin Birth is not only to strike at the nature of Christ but at the very power of God." Seven Reasons Why I Believe in THE FULL DIVINITY OF CHRIST ---New Window "Our Lord Jesus Christ is God manifest in the flesh. God tabernacling in human form. When I say I believe in the full deity of Christ, that is what I affirm. At His birth our Lord Jesu Christ did not begin to exist. He was before all worlds Very God of Very God. Neither did He cease to be God, He was, is and always shall be the Mighty God, the Father of Eternity. At the incarnation God the Son took on another mode of existence by taking into union with Himself an impeccable human nature." Seven Reasons Why I Believe in THE ATONING BLOOD OF CHRIST ---New Window "This vital consideration brings us to the fulcrum of the great operation of the Divine Revelation, to the centre of the vast circumference of Divine Redemption and to the very heart of the throbbing purpose of Divine Reconciliation. We come from the shallows of human speculation to the depths of divine revelation when we come to the Blood. We step at this juncture from the shadows of Old Testament typology to the blazing sunshine of New Testament theology. It is here we launch our souls from the shores of man's estimate into the boundless, tideless, endless sea of God's ultimate." Seven Reasons Why I Believe in THE BODILY RESURRECTION OF CHRIST ---New Window "The Resurrection is essential to Christianity, for by it alone can Christianity be confirmed. The Resurrection is the great corroborator of the Christian gospel. Remove this keystone and the goodly temple crashes into ruin. As life is essential to living so the Resurrection is essential to a living Christianity. Take away the Resurrection and Christianity becomes a dead letter, but another contribution to the world's Pantheon." "And if Christ be not raised, your Faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins" (1Corinthians 15:17).
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - sermon New Window	Jonathan Edwards	(1703-1758)	"Their foot shall slide in due time." -Deuteronomy 32:35 In this verse is threatened the vengeance of God on the wicked unbelieving Israelites, who were God's visible people, and who lived under the means of grace; but who, notwithstanding all God's wonderful works towards them, remained (as vers 28.) void of counsel, having no understanding in them.
Some Pass By a vignette -story New Window	Judith Bronte @ Acacia Vignettes ---- New Window		This vignette is dedicated to those who, when they look, do not pass by. A story of homelessness, compassion, and love. "If I were you," warned the police officer who had been asking her the questions, "I would stay out of dark alleys. Especially, if you are alone." "But, it's Providential I did, this one time," smiled Hannah. "It's just another transient," shrugged the officer, tucking the clipboard he had been writing on, under his arm. "If this one lives to be discharged, he'll be out on the streets again. Bums like him die everyday." The police officer checked his clipboard one more time, and walked away. A sick feeling crept over Hannah. She navigated her way to the main exit, and quickly left the hospital. Hannah looked up at the sky. Usually, the air was filled with smog, but a gentle breeze sent out from God's heavenly chamber had carried the man-made poison away... The policeman's words echoed in her mind. "Just another transient." A crowd of people exiting a nearby building, shook Hannah from her uneasy solitude.
Special Moments with Judith Bronte --Christian poetry New Window	Judith Bronte @ Acacia Vignettes ---- New Window	10-7-98	"Speak sister - oh, speak to me, Turn not your face away from me." Tears betrayed that she had heard, But from her came not a word... --from "The Decision"
Spurgeon on Bunyan -study New Window	Charles H. Spurgeon	(1834-1892)	Interesting preaching references made to John Bunyan. Taken from: "Sermons of C. H. Spurgeon" --New Window
Spurgeon On Catholicism: Geese in Their Hoods -study New Window	Charles H. Spurgeon	(1834-1892)	"Reader, do you believe that men like yourself have priestly power? Do you think that they can regenerate infants by sprinkling them, and turn bread and wine into the very body and blood of Jesus Christ? Do you think that a bishop can bestow the Holy Ghost, and that a parish clergyman can forgive sins ? If so, your head can be seen in the picture peeping out from the cowl of the fox. You are the victim of crafty deceivers. Your soul will be their prey in life and in death. They cajole you with soft words, fine vestments, loud pretensions, and cunning smiles, but they will conduct you down to the chambers of death, and lead you to the gates of hell. Silly goose, may grace make thee wise!" --C. H. Spurgeon
St. Patrick and the Druid Priests (or, "The Day of Tara") -study New Window A "must read" for those desiring a "church age" story similar to that of the Old Testament's Elijah.	by J. A. Wylie	(1808-1890)	"The "Day of Tara," the greatest day in the career of Patrick. This day transferred the scene of his labours from the rural hamlet, with its congregation of rustics, to the metropolitan Temor, with its magnificent gathering of the clans and chieftains of Ireland... The great annual festival of Tara, called "Baal's fire," was at hand. No other occasion or spot in all Ireland, Patrick knew, would offer him an equal opportunity of lifting his mission out of provincial obscurity and placing it full in the eye of the nation. The king, accompanied by the officers of his court, would be present. To Tara, too, in obedience to the annual summons, would come the chieftains of the land, each followed by his clan, over which he exercised the power of a king. The priests would there assemble, as a matter of course; nor would the bards be wanting, the most influential class, after the priests, in the nation. The assembly would be swelled by a countless multitude of the common people out of all the provinces of Ireland. Patrick resolved to lift high the standard of the cross in presence of this immense convocation. The step was a bold one. If he should convince the monarch and his people that Druidism was false, and that the Gospel alone was true, the victory would be great, and its consequences incalculable. But should he fail to carry the assembly on Tara with him, what could he expect but that he should become the victim of Druidic vengeance, and die on the altar he had hoped to overthrow? That his blood should fall on the earth was a small matter, but that the evangelization of Ireland should be stopped, as it would be should he perish, was with Patrick, doubtless, the consideration of greatest moment. But full of faith, he felt assured that Ireland had been given him as his spiritual conquest. So girding up his loins, like another Elijah, he went on to meet the assembled Druids at Tara, and threw down the gage of combat in the presence of those whom they had so long misled by their arts, and oppressed by their ghostly authority." --J. A. Wylie, from "The History of the Scottish Nation" chapter 16 --New Window
St. Patrick: Apostle of Ireland A Ten Chapter Excerpt (Chapters 9-18) from "History of the Scottish Nation" -study New Window	J. A. Wylie	(1808-1890)	"In entering on the story of Succat, whom our readers will more familiarly recognise under his later and better known appellative of St. Patrick, we feel that we tread on ground more stable and reliable than that which we had to traverse when relating the earlier evangelization of Whithorn. St. Patrick, it is true, has not wholly escaped the fate which has usually befallen early and distinguished missionaries at the hands of their monkish chroniclers. Unable to perceive or to appreciate his true grandeur as a humble preacher of the Gospel, some of his biographers have striven to invest him with the fictitious glory of a miracle-worker. No monk of the Middle Ages could have imagined such a life as Patrick's. These scribes deemed it beneath their heroes to perform, or their pens to record, whatever did not rise to the rank of prodigy. Humility, self-denial, deeds of unaffected piety and benevolence, discredited rather than authenticated one's claim to saintship. Boastful professions and acts of fantastic and sanctimonious virtue were readier passports to monkish renown than lives which had no glory save that of sterling and unostentatious goodness. We can trace the gradual gathering of the miraculous halo around Patrick on the pages of his successive chroniclers. His miracles are made to begin before he himself had seen the light. His story grows in marvel and prodigy as it proceeds. Each successive narrator must needs bring a fresh miracle to exalt the greatness of his hero and the wonder of his readers. Probus in the tenth century outdoes in this respect all who had gone before him, and Jocelin, in the twelfth, outruns Probus as far as Probus had outrun his predecessors. Last of all comes O'Sullivan in the seventeenth century, and he carries off the palm from every previous writer of the "Life of St. Patrick." The man who comes after O'Sullivan may well despair, for surely nothing more foolish or more monstrous was ever imagined by monk than what this writer has related of Patrick. So rises this stupendous structure which lacks but one thing-- a foundation. But happily it is easier in the present instance than in most cases of a similar kind, to separate what is false, and to be put aside, from what is true, and, therefore, to be retained. Before the monks had any opportunity of disfiguring the great evangelist by encircling him with a cloud of legends, Patrick himself had told the story of his life, and with such marked individuality, with such truth to Christian experience, and with such perfect accordance to the age and the circumstances, that we are irresistibly led to the conclusion that the life before us is a real life, and must have been lived, it could not have been invented. The confessions here poured forth could come from no heart but a heart burdened with a sense of guilt; and the sorrows here disclosed with so simple yet so touching a pathos, authenticate themselves as real not ideal. They are the experiences of the soul, not the creations of the imagination Succat the first name of the man who has taken his permanent place in history as Patrick or St. Patrick was born on the banks of the Clyde..." --J. A. Wylie
St. Patrick's Confession -study New Window	Patrick	(373-465 AD)	"I, Patrick, a sinner, a most simple countryman, the least of all the faithful and most contemptible to many, had for father the deacon Calpurnius, son of the late Potitus, a presbyter, of the settlement of Bannaven Taburniae; he had a small villa nearby where I was taken captive. I was at that time about sixteen years of age. I did not, indeed, know the true God; and I was taken into captivity in Ireland with many thousands of people, according to our deserts, for quite drawn away from God, we did not keep his precepts, nor were we obedient to our presbyters who used to remind us of our salvation. And the Lord brought down on us the fury of his being and scattered us among many nations, even to the ends of the earth, where I, in my smallness, am now to be found among foreigners." --Patrick
Suffer the Children --Christian poetry New Window	Katie Stewart	11-11-97	Oh, my little dove, fly away and be at rest. How sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely. Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee...
Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me Or, Of Such is the Kingdom of Heaven -study New Window	Katie Stewart		Laodicean doctrine often directs young Christian parents to believe that small children are not held accountable to God for their sins until they are quite old- between the ages of eight and twelve. This lie of Satan can leave our most cherished responsibilities, our own children, unguarded and open to the whims of the enemy. The Scriptures reveal God's thoughts on the "nurture and admonition" of very small children. Also included: advice given by the great servants of God, Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon, and Rev. Charles G. Finney (both from the Philadelphian Age Church).
Supernatural Provision 1 Dream & 2 Visions of Supernatural Provision - prophecy New Window	Bryan Hupperts @ Sheep Trax ---- New Window	6-20-97	There are dark and terrible days ahead as God continues to humble our nation. He is working to bring us to a place of godly sorrow to work real repentance in us. In spite of whatever happens, God knows how to care for those who are His and for those who will believe Him. He is still in the business of multiplying loaves and fish.
Swedenborgianism - book extract New Window	William Hoste	12-3-98	An excerpt from "Heresies Exposed" compiled by Wm. C. Irvine, 1917, pages 181-186, "The Lord Jesus is not honored by such daring perversions of the truth, but profoundly dishonored." 84