The reason that we may not be getting the thing done that the Lord wants us to do is that we might be slothful.  You’ve seen a sloth before.  It moves so slowly that it appears, most of the time, to not be moving.  Solomon describes the slothful man in...

Some people haven’t received everlasting life as a gift of God from this well of water because: They don’t know the gift of God.  Jn 4:10 “If thou KNEWEST the gift of God”.  They don’t know what the gift is. It’s eternal life, v.14.  It is the answer to sin...

Noah’s Walk, Work and Word Gen. 6:9 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Noah walked with God, worked for God, and spoke the word of God.  Likewise, we are to walk with the Lord, work for the Lord, and speak the word of the Lord in this world.  That is what the...

Being a Witness  (Acts 26:1-26) In the passage before us we see Paul speaking before King Agrippa. In this passage we can see some valuable things in regards to being a witness. The interesting thing here is that with all the doctrine and things that God has showed him since...

Missions involves a mission.  A mission is “a specific task with which a person or a group is charged”.  So, a mission involves three things: the person who gives the charge, the task that he wants done, and the person or group to carry out the task. The person who...

According to Ps 68:19, the Lord daily loadeth us with benefits.  In return, what should we do daily? Die to self – 1 Cor 15:31.  Paul wrote, “I die daily”.  The victory over sin each day is gained by the crucified life.  When we are crucified with Christ, he lives...

What is the relevance of the resurrection?  What does the resurrection mean to us today?  We can answer these questions from the scripture.   The relevance of the resurrection is that we are: The children of the resurrection, Lk 20:36.  Because we have trusted Jesus Christ as our Savior, we...

As we discussed this morning, the Lord is full of compassion.  He has certainly had compassion on us.  Compassion is “sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress together with a desire to alleviate it”.  What does God want us to do with the compassion that he extends toward us?  He wants us...

The texts for Pastor Haveman’s testimony are Eph 2:1-10 and Mk 5:1-20.

Our lesson today is from Ezek 3:15-27.  In Ezek 3:14, Ezekiel was transported by the spirit to Telabib by the river Chebar, where those who had been taken captive dwelt.  What he saw astonished him.  And so he sat among them seven days.  There God made Ezekiel the watchman for the...