Paul appeals to the Christian's vertical experience with God through Jesus Christ, and instructs them to allow that experience to drive them to prefer one another in love....
Five Biblical reasons why God ordains suffering: 1) suffering deepens faith, 2) suffering increases your experience of glory in eternity, 3) God uses the suffering of some to help others, 4) sufferings carry the gospel of Christ's sufferings, 5) the gospel's beauty is made clear through suffering...
Over the next week I will be posting my brief account of my conversion to Christ in four or five parts. Here's a taste of part six: "Dick Mills asked me to stand up. In trepidation, I did. He proceeded to quote a few verses having to do with leaving the past behind. And then he, or should I say a loving heavenly Father, stunned me by saying, “No more flashbacks fo...
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Keep ReadingOver the next week I will be posting my brief account of my conversion to Christ in four or five parts. Here's a taste of part five: "On my twentieth birthday, September 5, 1981, after a day of drinking a couple of six packs of Budweiser while listening to rock and roll and painting my parents’ house, the next door neighbor, Ammon Trainer, came over to shoot the bre...
Keep ReadingOver the next week I will be posting my brief account of my conversion to Christ in four or five parts. Here's a taste of part four: "During the late spring and summer of 1981, I was in a constant battle to keep myself busy, so that I would not have idle time to just think and be drawn away by tormenting thoughts from unseen demonic forces. One day I stopped by the baseba...
Keep ReadingOver the next week I will be posting my brief account of my conversion to Christ in four or five parts. Here's a taste of part three: "Up until this time, late winter to early spring of 1981, I had never taken any hallucigenic drugs because they frightened the heck out of me. But one evening, in March, my marijuana supplier was out of my stuff, but he told me he had some ...
Keep ReadingOver the next week I will be posting my brief account of my conversion to Christ in four or five parts. Here's a taste of part two. "Then in January of 1981, at the age of nineteen, I began to develop an insatiable desire to read the bible. Up to this point in my life, I never had anyone share the Gospel with me nor speak about a personal conversion experience. I kno...
Keep ReadingOver the next week I will be posting my brief account of my conversion to Christ in four or five parts. Here's a taste of part one. "I was not a Christian. Of course, I didn’t know I was unsaved. Most of us don’t know we are unsaved until our eyes are opened by the miracle of new birth and we awaken as believers who have a personal, intimate faith in Jes...
Keep ReadingI was mercifully brought out of darkness into the light of Jesus Christ at age 19. God has blessed me with a wonderful wife, Sonya, and six kids. I am the Pastor of Sovereign Grace Fellowship in the South Bay area of Los Angeles, CA. I root for Notre Dame and hate everything USC. I love to Golf and seldom get to do it....
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