Local Church Missions Local church missions is as much a ministry of the local church as any other ministry of the church. Like one preacher said, “Missions is not an optional ministry of the local church. It’s like your heart and lungs. Both are necessary in the body”. The first...
Ministry is Work Acts 13:2, “Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the WORK whereunto I have called them”. The work takes grace – Acts 14:26. The gospel of grace, the word of grace, and the sufficiency of grace. The work takes preparation – Prov 24:27. Prepare is to fit or...
Bearing Precious Seed In Ps 126, Israel went into captivity weeping. Their children were their precious seed. And the promise was that they would return with rejoicing, bringing their offspring (sheaves) with them. See Jer 29:1-1o. Seed in the Bible represents the word of God, Lk 8:5, 11; children, Dan...
The Presence of the Lord Jonah tried in vain to run from the presence of the Lord, which no man can do, Ps 139. What he discovered is that the presence of the Lord is revealed by: God’s Commands – God’s presence in his commands is as close as you’ll...
God Is Justified This is an overview of Paul’s Epistle to the Romans in which Pastor Haveman demonstrates, through the entire book, that God is justified and righteous while all men, regardless of religion or creed, are guilty before God. Thus, he proves that Jesus Christ is the only righteous...
Preparing For Missions Conference We should be preparing for missions conference starting this weekend. The Lord has directed me to Acts 13:1-3 as the text we should discuss tonight that will help us to know what we should be doing to prepare. Before Paul and Barnabas were sent out of...
Example of Timothy I was asked by a fellow in Australia why there were not more young people going to the mission field and staying when they got there. We can probably answer that question best by studying the example of Timothy. Upbringing – 2 Tim 3:15. “From a child...
Cast Thy Bread Cast thy bread upon the waters, Ecc 11:1. God did this when he sent Jesus, the bread of life, upon the waters (people, Rev 17:15). For thou shalt find it after many days. How many souls have been saved in the past 2,000 years? You and I...
Living Water Jn. 4:10-14 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Getting saved is like taking a drink of living water [Jn 4:10-14]. It’s that easy. And it’s that lasting. Jesus said, after a drink of living water, you will never thirst again [Matt 5:6]. When you get saved, your spiritual thirst will be...
Ants prepare their meat in the summer. See Prov 6:6-8, as well. Gaining wisdom from ants, you should likewise: Prepare yourself unto every good work – 2 Tim 2:21. Do what Paul says in 2 Tim 2:19-23. Purge yourself from these. You should depart from iniquity, become a vessel of...
