Savings from Evangelism Conference
1. Our present world minimizes sin and humanizes Jesus. 2. Our faith is being destroyed by Materialism. 3. We are facing malnutrition of our spiritual life. 4. 27,000,000 High School young people are spiritual illiterates. 5. 80% of our High School young people have no church affiliation. 6. 90,000,000 college students sleep in on Sunday morning. 7. “You can almost pick out the Baptist Church by the cigarettes on the walk outside.” Dr. Lee. 8. “Hell is God’s sewer system.” 9. We are too often a ripple when we could be a tide. 10. We must preach by life as well as lip. No one can preach cream and live skimmed milk. 11. God will use any vessel as long as it’s clean. 12. No Christian ought to have a habit they couldn’t...
Proof of Faith
A converted cowboy once gave this very sensible idea of what “being faithful” consisted in: “Lots of folks think that being faithful to the Lord means shouting themselves hoarse praising His name.” “I’ll tell you how I look at it. I’m working here for Jim. Now, if I’d sit around the house, talking what a good fellow Jim is, and singing songs to him, and getting up in the night to serenade him, I’d get my discharge. But when I buckle on my straps and hustle among the hills and see that Jim’s herds are all right, and not suffering for water and feed, or being branded by cattle thieves, than I’m serving Jim as he wants to be served. That’s what I call being faithful to Jim.” No, the Lord...
Have Courage, My Boy to Say No.
(Written by a devoted mother, to be given to her son upon his entrance into business). You’re starting today on life’s journey, alone on the highway of life; You’ll meet with a thousand temptations, each city with evile is rife. This world is a stage of excitement, There’s danger wherever you go, But if you are tempted in weakness have courage, my boy, to say no. The Siren’s sweet smile may allure you, beward of her cunning and art. Whenever you see her approaching, be guarded and haste to depart. The billiard saloons are inviting decked out in their tinsel and show. Should you be invited to enter, have courage, my boy, to say no. Be careful in choosing companions, seek only the brave and the true, and stand by your friends when in...
Saul
The times in which he lived: It was the time of Roman Emporors. The powerful influence of the Greek culture. The Jews held tremendous power on commerce. Some of the Culture, Art, and Laws of that age are still effective. Saul of Tarsus: We must listen to his words if we would know him. His enemies said “His bodily presence was weak.” But even they had to acknowledge that his words were “weighty and powerful.” His writings have touched the hearts and lives of more people than any human being that has lived. Paul was 1 of the most powerful intellects ever known. Studied at the feet of Gamaliel. He was fearless and independent. He was sometimes impetuous. He possessed a refined courtesy which would not allow him to bring blame until he had...
Coming of the Holy Spirit
1. Acts 1: Deals with the preparation for the Coming of the Holy Spirit. 2. Acts 2: Tells of his Adventure. 3. Jesus had completed Salvation, the Holy Spirit proclaimed it. 4. Jesus made adornment, the Spirit applies it. 5. Jesus produced the Church. The Holy Spirit improved it for it’s a World Mission. 6. Christ is the Foundation, the Holy Spirit is the Builder.
Buzzards or Bees
God is the woodlands two went for a walk. They were not of one mind on what they should talk. With the beauties of Nature one was on fire, While the other saw briars and thistles and mire. One found fault with the clouds and the showers, the other rejoiced in the Crops and the flowers. The other saw honey and sipped like the bee. Into Church Sabbath morning, these two people went. They differed on what the Church Service meant. One joined in the Worship in the Spirit of prayer, which the other one somehow seemed not to share. One sought the truth in which to delight, the other sought errors against which to fight. One found meat to strengthen his life. The other found bones for contention and strife. Let’s talk of the noble, the good and the pure. Never...