"description":"In many of the Epistles, the Apostles began with the wonderful phrase: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Grace and mercy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d486 If God began writing many of His holy Letters to us in this manner, then we should do also in our own correspondence with others in the body of Christ. In the beginning of the Book of Jude we read, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d487 Do we find it easy to wish mercy on others in abundance or are we quick to condemn? One that finds it easy to judge others has lost the perspective that he was shown much mercy from God. For it is by grace and mercy we have been saved by the blood of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Son. In the Book of Titus it says: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d",
"description":"All churches have been bulldozed in North Korea except for a few show churches in the main capital of North Korea. Christians practice their faith in secrecy and constant danger. Religious prisoners are often subjected to harsher treatment and given the most dangerous tasks, all to force them to renounce their faith. When they refuse, they have often been tortured to death. Likewise their children are sentenced to hard labor and starved to death.",
"description":"This message is a exhortation to live a godly life and be a example to this generation of youth that are living in sin and a slave to lust. This is a engagement service where Erlo Stegen warns and exhorts the couple to stay pure and holy before God sexually. He clearly states God's best in engagement and marriage. A very challenging and clear sermon on this subject.",
"description":"In this period of church history there were no church buildings as we know them, the early christians met in houses, not because it was more spiritual, but becuase of necessity, interestingly the reason they met in the catacombs of Rome was most likely to remember those who were martyred. Their meetings were presided over by an elder or pastor who in turn was presided over by a local 'bishop', literally overseer, who would preside over all the church gatherings an example of a bishop would have been Titus who was told by Paul to appoint elders. Again in this age of the church there was rapid church growth and the gosepl went as far as India Ethiopia and England. But these were times where the church was under great pressure as persecution was rife and suspicion and fear everywhere.",
"description":"This is a great series of 3 messages on the nature and implications of regeneration. Charles has a great ability to clear away misconceptions about who the Christian really is or isn't. Looks at the various biblical pictures of regeneration. One of the least understood doctrines today.",
"description":"This is a great series of 3 messages on the nature and implications of regeneration. Charles has a great ability to clear away misconceptions about who the Christian really is or isn't. Looks at the various biblical pictures of regeneration. One of the least understood doctrines today.",
"description":"This is a great series of 3 messages on the nature and implications of regeneration. Charles has a great ability to clear away misconceptions about who the Christian really is or isn't. Looks at the various biblical pictures of regeneration. One of the least understood doctrines today.",
"description":"Faith comes by hearing the Word of God. However if you are disobedient to the truth God speaks to you, hearing His truth profits you nothing. When the wise men enquired where the Christ was to be born, the scribes and pharisees told them correctly that it was in Bethlehem, as it is written, \"But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.\u201d (Micah 5:2). They knew God's Word but did not go to worship the Child, because His birth was not revealed to them.",
"description":"This is a personal letter written by the Apostle Paul to a young minister whom he had left on Crete. Like the Timothy correspondence, the letter to Titus is practical and discusses the everyday problems confronted by a young minister. This letter is probably to be dated between the first and the second letters to Timothy.",
"description":"\"You can never have the fruit until the blossom is gone, and it takes terrible winds to get rid of the blossom in order to bring on the fruit.\" If you are in struggles or trials and feel things are not going the way you want them to go. Take the time to listen to this. It is only 22 minutes long delivered by Sparks in 1955, but it is of eternal value for them that has ears to hear. Heb 12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.",
"description":"We preachers should revive each other so that the Gospel can go forth. Islamists like Gadaffi had said that they will take Europe simply by having more children, while Africa will become Islamic. We Christians should stop betray the Lord like Judas. We must remember who the real enemy, satan is. We find the grace of God first mentioned in the time of Noah, in Gen 6:8, \"Noah found favour in the eyes of the Lord\". Way back then Noah found grace in God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eyes. Jesus said in the last days will be a time like the time of Noah. There was sexual immorality and flirting around between boys and girls. And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the same today. It reminds one of the large ship built in Britain, the Titanic. After the construction of that ship, which was at that time the largest ship of its time, one of the builders commented that even God cannot sink it. Many booked for its maiden voyage. It traveled through an area full of icebergs, struck one and sank. Most people on the Titanic drowned. At the moment when it struck the iceberg there was a party going on, but when the news spread that it had struck an iceberg, they changed the music to \"nearer my God to Thee\".",
"scripture":"1 Thessalonians 1:5, 1 Thessalonians 2:10-13, Titus 2:7",
"topic":"Preaching",
"description":"Originally preached at the Ministers' Conference of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church at Westminster Theological Seminary in September 1967, this message was published in print form soon afterward by the Banner of Truth Trust and owing to its continued relevance has seen several reprints over the 30 years since. 1. The Man: regular systematic devotional habits, personal practical piety or holiness, purity of motivation. 2. The Message: biblical content, doctrinal substance, practical application. 3. The Manner: urgency, orderliness, directness.",
