You Are Accepted

You Are Accepted

You Are Accepted Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. Or so we have been told. However, the Bible tells us that our words have the power of life and death (Proverbs 18:21). God also tells us that only wholesome talk should come from our...
The Opioid Epidemic

The Opioid Epidemic

Just as we are experiencing an opioid crisis in the natural, we are also witnessing an opioid epidemic in the spiritual. We love that God is good, but we should never neglect that God is also just. A.W. Tozer warns, “God’s justice stands forever against the...
How Jesus Selected His First Disciples

How Jesus Selected His First Disciples

How Did Jesus Select His First Disciples? Summary: How you can select disciples for the long haul, who produce into the fourth generation, and will preserve the gospel without alteration or addition. Today, many people think discipleship is only for the few, the...
Developing a discipleship ministry

Developing a discipleship ministry

Jesus was the greatest disciple maker who has ever lived. How did He begin? Though Jesus had many who followed, He chose only twelve ordinary men with a mixture of backgrounds and personalities to be His disciples. Jesus’ entire ministry depended upon these men who...
The most powerful word in the Bible

The most powerful word in the Bible

If. Two letters, one word. Jesus said: If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. (Matthew 16:24) What is it to be a disciple of Christ? It is to come after him. A true disciple of Christ is one that follows him in duty...
A Fish Story

A Fish Story

Jesus said “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men” (Matthew 4:19). A Fish Story by John M. Drescher Now it came to pass that a group existed who called themselves fishermen. And lo, there were many fish in the waters all around. In fact the whole area was...