by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 5, 2019 | Bible, Church, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Witness
The Christian preacher is a steward (1 Cor.4:1,2). The steward is the trustee and dispenser of another’s person’s goods. So the preacher is a steward of God’s mysteries, that is, of the self-revelation which God has entrusted to men and which is now preserved in the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 22, 2018 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, Islam, Jesus, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, Uncategorized, Witness, Worship
On March 7, 1984, Jerry Levin, director of the CNN Middle East Bureau was walking from his Beirut, Lebanon apartment to his office when he was kidnapped by the terrorist group Hezbollah. He was placed in solitary confinement, chained to a radiator that didn’t work,...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 18, 2018 | Church, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Witness, Worship
LAODICEA, TURKEY. In Revelation 3:14-22 Jesus Christ identifies the seventh mark of the church as wholeheartedness. He combines a fierce denunciation of complacency and a tender appeal for wholeheartedness. The Laodicean church was a halfhearted church. Perhaps none...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 15, 2018 | Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, The World, Witness
THE CHURCH IN PHILADELPHIA, TURKEY The sixth mark of the church is opportunity. Christ placed before the church in Philadelphia (Revelation 3:7-13) an open door, that no one can shut, and he holds the key to the door. Christ holds the key to the door of salvation. Do...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 7, 2018 | Bible, Church, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Witness
CHURCH IN SARDIS, TURKEY The following is the commentary of John Stott (1921-2011) on the church at Sardis in Revelation 3:1-6. Reality is another sine qua non of a true church. A church should not only have the name of being alive but the life itself. So we must...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 1, 2018 | Bible, Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Sexuality, The World, Witness, Worship
The following is the commentary of John Stott (1921-2011) on the churches at Pergamum and Thyatira in Revelation 2:12-29. Truth and holiness are the third and fourth marks of the living church. Some Christians are so resolved to make love paramount, that they forget...
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