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- Fri, Oct 3, 2003
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"The gospel is an invitation into a new life -- to enter a new kingdom, to pledge allegiance to a new King, and to embrace a new destiny from which there can be no turning back." Join us on a quest to resdiscover the passion and reality of the Good News.
Articles In This Issue
Article- Byron Paulus
- Wed, Oct 1, 2003
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Does the gospel really have power?If it does, why does it seem to have such minimal effect on those who believe? Why do so many of the people who claim to follow Jesus fail to resemble Him? Why do multitudes who enter the race fail to finish, let alone win? Is it possible that the gospel being preached today is not the gospel Jesus preached? Sadly, I know firsthand of what I speak. For years, I was a faithful church member, sang in the choir, led the youth group, and even chaired major committees. However, at work things were ...
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- Dan Jarvis
- Wed, Oct 1, 2003
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There is an elephant in the church. "What?" Yes, like the proverbial "elephant in the room," there is an elephant in the church! The story goes like this: A huge, audacious, stubborn elephant is sitting in the center of the room, but everyone continues on with business as usual. People get so accustomed to seeing it staunchly implanted in the midst of daily activities that they begin to forget what life was like before the elephant arrived. Some people have never seen the room without the elephant. Others feed it on occasion, having developed a secretly-harbored affinity for the creature ...
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- Del Fehsenfeld
- Wed, Oct 1, 2003
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The strange clicking sound from my computer caused a sick feeling to sweep through my stomach. Months of painstaking research for my thesis appeared to be in serious jeopardy.
Over the next few hours, I worked frantically with technical support personnel to rescue what I could before total system failure. The part of my computer responsible for storing information had become fragmented, broken into so many disconnected segments that it could no longer function.
Fortunately for me, there was something that could be done. The designer had built a rescue command into the system for just such an emergency. Although ...
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- Dan Jarvis
- Wed, Oct 1, 2003
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Going half-way for Jesus is good enough, affirmed the excited young minister. If we keep demanding wholehearted commitment, our churches are going to die out. But I have the solution! Since we can't expect people to actually follow Christ anymore, why don't we just ask them to agree with a few key doctrines? An awkward silence fell over the group. At first it seemed like a preposterous suggestion. After all, who were these men, that they could modify such a central element of Christianity? You're serious about this? one of them gasped in disbelief. Do you really ...
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- J. C. Ryle
- Wed, Oct 1, 2003
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The wheat are the believers in Christ - all who are led by the Spirit - who have felt themselves to be sinners and fled for refuge to the Gospel - who love and serve Jesus - who have taken Him for their only confidence, the Bible for their only guide, who regard sin as their deadliest enemy, and heaven as their only home. The chaff have no saving faith in Christ. Some are infidels, others are formal Christians. Some are sneering Sadducees, others are self-righteous Pharisees. Some make a point of keeping up Sunday religion; others are utterly careless of everything except their ...
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- John Newton
- Wed, Oct 1, 2003
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By John Newton -- The author of Amazing Grace challenges us to embrace faith that transforms, and proves from Scripture that there is a standard that verifies genuine salvation.The use and importance of faith, as it respects a sinner's justification before God, is well known. But it is likewise of great use and importance in the daily concerns of life. It gives evidence and subsistence to things not seen, so that the great truths of the gospel become abiding and living principles of support and direction while we are passing through this wilderness. Thus faith is as the eye ...
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- Life Action
- Wed, Oct 1, 2003
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C.S. Lewis
"The whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have his way, come to share in the life of Christ . . . . He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of life He has - by what I call 'good infection.' Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else." (C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity)
W.H. Griffith Thomas
"We have to acknowledge Christ as our Lord. Sin is rebellion, and it ...
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- Dieter Zander
- Wed, Oct 1, 2003
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I was abducted by an alien gospel. At least that seems like the best way to describe what happened when I was eleven years old. One day, during a summertime visit to my aunt's home, I found some matches and played with them in the backyard. As she was putting me to bed, my aunt, who had been tipped off by a neighbor, asked me if I had been playing with matches. Being an eleven-year-old, I naturally said, "No." "God knows if you were playing with matches," my aunt said sternly. "If you are lying, you are committing a ...
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- Dr. Richard Fisher
- Wed, Oct 1, 2003
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SORO: What is the gospel? Dr. Richard Fisher: The gospel is "good news" - it's the announcement of something that's going to bring restoration and deliverance. The concept originates in the Old Testament when Adam and Eve are confronted with their sin. They knew the consequence was certain death, which is why they hid from the Lord. Yet when God spoke to them, He extended grace. God gave them hope that, despite their sin, a rescue plan had been set in motion. Now, how God is going to bring that "salvation" about is seen throughout the rest of Scripture ...
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- Ray Comfort
- Wed, Oct 1, 2003
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SORO: Ray, it is great to speak with you. I'd like to start by getting a sense of how God called you into evangelistic ministry and what motivated you to come to the States.
Ray Comfort: From the moment I got saved, I immediately felt deep concern for my family, neighbors, and even people I didn't know. I wanted to reach out to the lost with all the energy I could muster. It's been my heart's cry to be used of God.
I remember being so passionate in my prayers that I would actually punch things ...
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- Rico Tice
- Wed, Oct 1, 2003
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SORO: Rico, you describe yourself as one who makes his living persuading people to become Christians. What factors motivated you to become an evangelist? Rico Tice: In England, I began to see that many of the clergy didn't believe the gospel. A secular consulting organization, hired by churches in England to evaluate their status, summarized their findings this way: "Your problem is that you do not believe your own value system." Soon after my conversion, I noticed that my school chaplain didn't believe what Jesus taught. The evangelists in England were out proclaiming that, "Jesus loves you, and ...
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- Sammy Tippit
- Wed, Oct 1, 2003
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SORO: Why do you believe the gospel can change lives? Sammy Tippit: Because I've seen people's lives change. I've seen my life change. The gospel contains the power of God. There is something supernatural that transpires when it is proclaimed. In Moldova, in 1990, I preached the first national evangelistic crusade in that nation. An atheist journalist asked me right before I got up to speak, "Mr. Tippit, do you really believe lives are going to be changed because of some words you speak?" I answered him simply, "I know they will, not because I'm speaking ...
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- Debra Fehsenfeld
- Wed, Oct 1, 2003
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In my mid-teenage years, I became a slave to the sin of bulimia. I loved and enjoyed food, but I didn't want it to "catch up with me." How delighted I was to find this way of eating what I wanted without consequences-or so I thought. More and more of my life began to center around food binges. I made my decisions about who I would be with, what I would do, and when I would do it based on my growing addiction. No one knew, and my happiness seemed to depend on their not finding out. I lived ...
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- Tom Elliff, Tim Grissom
- Wed, Oct 1, 2003
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[Tom Elliff, preaching] Do you have doubts regarding your salvation? Many people do, even faithful church members who are actively serving the Lord. That's why I want to address the most important issue of life-your relationship with God. [Tim Grissom, hearing] I remember those words as if I'd heard them yesterday. With that brief introduction, Tom Elliff opened his message to our staff. Before the service ended that night, I became a child of God. Preacher: When the apostle Paul challenged the Corinthians to "Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves" (2 Cor ...
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- Larry and Sue Jarvis
- Wed, Oct 1, 2003
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Depression Clung to Her
There was a young woman, broken by the abortion her husband forced her to have. Depression clung to her like a too-tight garment that long since needed to be discarded. God did not stop that abortion. But remember this: He did not order it either.
What the Lord did for this woman was to teach her the greatest lesson of her life...that justice can go hand-in-hand with mercy. The wrath of the God whose commandment shouts, "Thou shalt not kill!" is the same God who gave His very own Son to die on a cross ...
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