Jeff Williams, missionary to New Zealand, preached a message entitled A Field of Fools from 1 Sam 25:1-25. Nabal was a fool, and many of the people whom we try to reach with the gospel are fools. Missions is a spiritual war like Saul against David. David typifies Jesus. In...
Pastor Joe Cammilleri preached another message on fish, fishing, and fishermen. According to Mk 1:16, they were fishers. Wouldn’t it be something if the Lord would say of our church “they were fishers”. Fishermen know fishing takes work. Lk 5:2-5, Jn 4:35-38. It’s stinky. The work is messy. The work...
Missionary Joel Haynes, to the Navajo Nation, preached from Gen 22:2 on what God wanted from Abraham. God wanted what Abraham had, his son. “thy son”. God asked for Isaac. God wanted what Abraham hoped for. “thine only son Isaac”. God asked for his only son. The future seed was...
According to the Bible, men are like fish. Therefore, the first four men God called to be his disciples were commercial fishermen. Our efforts to win men to Christ are likened to fishermen catching fish. Jesus said, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men”, Matt 4:19. God...
Missionary Spencer Baker, to Hawaii, preached from Lk 8:14 and Ex 4:4-9 about the things that weigh us down and keep us from being able to fully serve God. The attitude of the world toward God’s work is that, like Pharaoh, the world despises the words of God, the men...
In 1 Ki 18:23-25 Elijah said, “put no fire under”. You can’t have life without fire. You’d have no heat, no cooking, no light, etc. Likewise, you have no life in your walk with God if you have no fire. We need some fire in our private time. You can’t...
Missionary Chris Rue, to Ukraine, preached from 1 Sam 17:29. In this passage, David asked, “Is there not a cause”? And indeed there was a reason for him to step into the fight with Goliath. Yet, most Christians only talk about the fight; they aren’t actually in it. And the...
In Ex 4:2, God asked Moses, “What is that in thine hand”? And he said, “A rod”. What is in your hand that God can use? The rod was just an ordinary stick that Moses used as a shepherd. Yet, God used it for great and mighty works. God can...
Pastor Joe Cammilleri preached a message beginning in Acts 9:5 to encourage us to witness in the dark like we did in the light. We are in darker days than we were in the 70’s and 80’s. Yet, we are not anywhere close to the persecutions and trials the saints...
Our missions conference verse is the first part of 2 Cor 8:14, “But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want…”. When you read this verse in its context, you understand that Paul is referring to a principle derived from the...
