Recently I asked my Facebook friends what they thought were some of the greatest threats facing the American church. Predictably the feedback swung from the polar ends of the theological spectrum. Some thought the Church was too worldly and some too legalistic. Some felt the church is too focused on outreach and not on discipleship.
I appreciated this perspective on Sanctification: “People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith or delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; toward disobedience and call it freedom; toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the
This is a powerful message by David Wilkerson, a minister of the gospel, who passed away on April 27, 2011: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGMG_PVaJoI&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] May we recover a willingness to grieve over the things that break God’s heart!
Why Revival Tarries By Leonard Ravenhill Copyright 1959 Bethany House Publishers ISBN#0-87123-607-9 There are a number of similes that come to mind when I think about this book. It is like being doused with ice water to awake from a deep sleep in a nice cozy bed. Or perhaps it is like being knocked in
