Pastor's Corner

In an interview with a famous Gospel preacher a reporter said: "His first words to me were, `Things are very different now from what they were 25 or 30 years ago. It was easy to work for God then, compared with what it is now. There was then a sense of sin — where there is no sense of sin you have no fulcrum for your lever." Alas. how true are these words in our own time. But if the sense of sin has been lost, the fact of sin remains. I

Ever it was Christ’s work and purpose to redeem mankind. He was the Lamb ‘slain from the foundation of the world.’ For our study purposes we will break down His work into three categories, His Personal Ministry, His Teaching Ministry, and His Redemptive Ministry. None of these can be taken and dealt with totally by itself so as we study this look at it as a 3-D approach to seeing His Work.

Why should there be a door between the ministry of the laver and the service and fellowship of the holy place? Perhaps to teach us that the work of the one was just to fit us for the enjoyment and privilege of the other. To grow in Grace means receiving to the full the blessings in Christ Jesus. Those who walk in the light they have, shall receive more light.

We live in a rapid pace society. Everything is instant, fast food, microwavable, quick-serve, Jiffy Lube, fast-paced, never a dull moment. One of the last virtues we want is patience. Oh, we want others to be patient with us but it is so very hard to be patient toward the other fellow. The word patience means ‘a willing to suffer.’ It means self-control, it means the ability to wait and not to rush into things. If ever there is a virtue we need to earnestly pray for and seek to have in our lives it is patience.

An examination of incense as a lesson in prayer.