Practical Christian Living

  • Agape Love - We are saved by faith (Eph 2:8) and the hope of heaven is an anchor to our soul (Heb 6:19). But love is greater than these. Agape love is the inward attitude we have toward God and our fellow man. This agape love causes us to be longsuffering with others, [...]
  • February’s Spiritual Goal - This month I am going to focus on reading the scriptures more. The plan is to read through Psalms, Proverbs, and the New Testament in this month. This will work out to 5 chapters in Psalms, 1 chapter in Proverbs, and 6 chapters in the New Testament each day. My goal [...]
  • So You Like To Play Video Games Eh? - What? Should we be sitting around, dabbling in works of darkness and giving our minds to trifles while the world speeds on to eternity? Jesus is coming to judge the world in righteousness, and souls that have not surrendered their lives to Christ will be damned. Don’t play video games when [...]
  • 2 More Tips For Christians On How To Backslide - I have been thinking about my 5 Tips For Christians On How To Backslide and I have come up with 2 more tips on how Christians can backslide. Again I want to be clear that the title of this post is not meant to be foolish or to deal with this [...]
  • 5 Tips For Christians On How To Backslide - Very few committed Christians out of nowhere just up and decide to turn their backs on Christ and backslide into the world. The title of this article is not meant to be foolish or to deal with this subject lightly but it is meant to be provoking. People that turn away from [...]
  • Elders And Deacons Are Your Homes In Order - Any elder and deacon who is not in the practice of having proper personal devotions first thing in the morning is lazy and disqualifies themselves from the ministry. Each elder and deacon MUST start their morning off with good personal devotions. Then with the flame of God burning in their [...]
  • So You Want To Be More Spiritual In The New Year - The below list is are not in order of importance. Many of them are equally important. In order for these to work you will have to be born again and living free from all willful or known sin. “He that loveth me not keepeth not my saying” (Joh 14:24). Accord to [...]
  • Are You Partial - If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF,” you are doing well. But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. Jam 2:8-9 The Lord impressed this scripture on my heart the [...]
  • Selfish Or Selfless - Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. — Phil 2:3-4 Selfish Or Selfless: We are called to a selfless life. One that [...]
  • Exhort The Brethren - Today purpose to bless the brothers and sisters with some practical truth that God has blessed you with. Exhort them to a deeper prayer life, a greater love for the Bible, a stronger love for the brethren, that they would be continuously looking for and be in expectation and continuously desire [...]
  • Holy Questions To Meditate On - –Are you loving and glorifying God to the degree that you can? –How is your prayer life? –Do you love to read the Bible? –When is the last time you weep over a lost soul? –Do you reach out to the lost with tracts and Bibles every where you go? –Are you looking for the [...]
  • Holy Thoughts To Meditate On - –Everything in the Christians life is to be directed to conforming to Christ. –The Christian is not to use their own wisdom but to use God’s wisdom. –Fruit of the Spirit is not an activity. –True joy, assurance, peace, and hope don’t come from the Christians performance but from what God has done [...]
  • Seven Areas Where You Can Minister To Others - An overseer of a congregation is called to minister in the following seven areas. –Spiritual: salvation, recovery from backslidding, dicipleship, witnessing, doctrine, growing in grace. –Church Life: doctrine, pratical living, outreach, intercongregational relationships, conduct in meetings, ministering to children, teens, adults, and the elderly. –Marital: courtship, general marriage councling, divorce and seperation councling, [...]
  • Seven Things You Need To Consecrate - As a Christian there are seven areas in our live that we need to have fully consecrated to the Lord and to keep consecrated. –Thoughts and Opinions –Desires –Reputation –Relationships –Body –Time –Money We must give each of these fully over to God and see ourselves only as stewards of them. As we go through live and deal [...]
  • How I Got Victory Over Committing Willful Sins - A number of years ago in my Christian experience I backslide and fell into willful and known sins. I struggled for around three years in a cycle of willful sinning then repentance only to fall back into willful sinning again. I wept, I cried, I tried, I struggled — only [...]
  • Outline and Index of Proverbs - I have been reading a chapter in Proverbs daily now for a number of years. The Proverbs are very instructional, and I really enjoy reading them. When I am out doing street witnessing and talking to the unconverted, Proverbs is one of books of the Bible that I suggest they read [...]
  • Summer Reminder for the Brothers and Sisters - The following scriptures go both ways and apply for the men toward women, and women towards men. Those that dress immodestly to sexually attract the opposite gender have a sinful and wicked heart. With the summer coming, when men and women dress more immodest, the below scriptures are good to memorize and [...]
  • I Was Only Joking - Just as damaging as a madman shooting a deadly weapon is someone who lies to a friend and then says, “I was only joking.” – Pr 26:18-19 NLT I am amazed by the number of spiritual-minded Christians who will tell a lie and then a bit later say “I was only joking”, [...]
  • Being Not a Forgetful Hearer - But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. –Jas 1:25 In one week, the typical Christian hears 1 Sunday school teaching, 1 or 2 preached messages [...]
  • Nine a Day Is One Per Month - Nine chapters in the New Testament each day will read you through the New Testament in a month. This month I am reading through the New Testament in the NASB version. Here are a few comments on the scriptures that spoke to me in yesterday’s reading. Joh 3:20 For [...]
  • A Blow at the Root - “Without holiness no man shall see the Lord,” shall see the face of God in glory. Nothing under heaven can be more sure than this; “for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.” No, it cannot be; none that shall live with God, but he that now lives to God; [...]
  • Contrast between Old Testament and New Testament - Old Testament: Longing Job 23:3 Creator Gen 1:1 Majestic God Ex 19:18 First Things Gen 1:1 Spiritual Darkness Ps 82:5 Satan’s Victory Gen 3:6 Sin’s Curse Gen 3:17-19 Death Regnant Gen 3:19 Bloody Sacrifices Ex 12:3-7 Bondage Pr 5:22 Law Ex 20:1-17 Types And Shadows Heb 8:5 Outward Ceremonies Heb 9:10 The Letter Rom 7:6 Prophecy Isa 11:1-2 Expected Messiah Mal 3:1 Paradise Lost Gen 3:23 New Testament: Realization [...]
  • Emotions in Private and Public Worship - Question: Is it true that emotionalism is mistaken for spirituality, and doesn’t the glory of God manifest itself in a person living like Jesus did; denying self and the flesh to serve others? Answer: I would agree with you that the glory of God is holy, selfless, sanctified living that has [...]
  • Seven Editions of Divine Law - “The divine method of gradual revelation and publication of the law was given in seven steps. It was first written upon nature, next upon man’s conscience, then the fundamental principles upon the tables of stone. In due time Jesus appeared as the perfect embodiment of the truth, which he illustrated in [...]
  • Read through the New Testament Monthly - With the help of the Lord I am taking the Word of God more serious. In Romans 10:17 we are told that “faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” To me, this means if we as the children of God read the Word of God in the [...]

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