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The Book of Jude teaches us how to prepare for the coming of a group of teachers on the earth known as the Apostates. Apostates are false teachers who teach doctrines of apostasy. Doctrines of apostasy are doctrines that depart from the faith and once and for all are delivered to the saints. Jude started to write about a more pleasant subject—the common salvation. Yet, he says to us in verse 3 that there came this impression on his heart that rather than write about the common salvation, he should write a word to encourage us to contend for the faith and be delivered to the saints. The reason for…

Jesus’ first disciples were fishermen. And, I want to say that all of the disciples today should be fishermen. I want to talk to you today on this subject: “How To Make Your Net Work.” I don’t know of anything more thrilling, more exciting, than to know that God can use me, and God can use you, to be a fisher of men. There is no greater fulfillment on this earth than to bring somebody else to a saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. How we can be fishers of men? Soul winning is fishing for men. Now, when we fish for fish, we take fish out of a beautiful…

We are about to step into the 3rd Millennium of the Church. The Global Church Network is making plans to celebrate the 2000th Birthday of the Church on June 9-11, 2030 in Jerusalem, Israel. While at the same time, we commemorate the 2nd millennium, we will be stepping into the 3rd millennium. While none of us may know when Christ will return, we do know that we are living in the last, last days. The Church does not have a harvest problem but a labor shortage. When the harvest has slowed down in a region, it is not because God is not concerned or the ground is too hard, but…

Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain!” (Jude 11) The book of Genesis is a book of beginnings. Genesis records the birth of the universe, the world, the sun, the moon, stars, animal life, plant life, human life, and many other important things. In the first eleven chapters of Genesis, many “first” things appear: the first man, the first woman, the first command from God, the first marriage, the first home, the first sin, the first death, the first sacrifice, the first worship, the first murder, the first curse, and so on. It was no marvel that the heart of Eve rejoiced when a son was…

What is evangelism? Over the decades I have been asked this question. It is hard to believe but some leaders have many different definitions and descriptions. It is amazing that some many Christian leaders love to celebrate the baby Jesus at His birth with the angels, but not the grownup Jesus who said, “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel” Evangelism is God loving the world so much that He sent His only son. Evangelism is Jesus weeping over a doomed, Gospel rejecting Jerusalem. Evangelism is Moses’ prayer: “Lord, forgive them, or blot me from your book.” Evangelism is David writing, “The zeal of the thy house has…

In II Timothy 4:2-4, the apostle Paul talks about the last days and says, “Preach the Word; be instant in season, out of season: reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” Paul says in days of apostasy, preach the Word. People will have itching ears. They will want to hear ear-tickling messages, but Paul says preach messages that are spine-tingling. In days of apostasy, strong preaching is…

The plumb line was created 3,000 years ago through Egyptian engineering. Ancient Egyptians used a plumb line attached to the top outer part of of a tool resembling a letter E. When placed against a wall, the plumb line would indicate a vertical line. An A-frame level with a plumb line hung from the vertex was also used to find horizontal; these were used in Europe until the mid–19th century. The plumb line brought balance or helped to create a leveled horizontal. What is your plumb line? What is it in your life that develops your priorities? Your measurement? Your consistency? When temptation and desire intersect, what is your plumb…

Operation Christmas Child’s goal is to ship more than 12 million shoeboxes for Christmas 2024. Operation Christmas Child is the number one shipper of shoeboxes each year in the world. How did this begin? The Making of the Shoebox: Until the 19th century, shoes were generally made by hand in small workshops by cobblers. As this footwear was made for a customer’s specific order or in limited quantities, there was no great need for shoemakers to create significant storage space or require adequate ways to protect their goods. However, the rapid development of innovative manufacturing processes within the footwear industry soon required good storage for the newly mass-produced product. The…

All of us from time to time will struggle with fear. Christians who say they never struggle with fear, will also share other falsehoods with you. Leading Christian Psychologists tell us there are different levels of fear. I suppose the greatest fear is pantaphobia; the fear of fear. If we are not careful, we can get sucked into a vortex of fear that pulls us downward each day. A friend of mine once told me, “Fear will take from you whatever you choose to give it.”  Yet, we do not have to live with the spirit of fear throughout our lives. Some Believes have been living with certain fears since…