I heard about a 9-1-1 call that Avery Shawler made on Labor Day in 2016.  She was climbing alone on Devil’s Bedstead, an 11,865 foot peak in the Pioneer Mountains in Idaho.  She is a certified SOLO Wilderness First Responder and an experienced climber.  Therefore, she carried a first aid...

Jeff Williams, missionary to New Zealand, preached a message entitled A Field of Fools from 1 Sam 25:1-25. Nabal was a fool, and many of the people whom we try to reach with the gospel are fools. Missions is a spiritual war like Saul against David. David typifies Jesus. In...

Pastor Joe Cammilleri preached another message on fish, fishing, and fishermen. According to Mk 1:16, they were fishers. Wouldn’t it be something if the Lord would say of our church “they were fishers”. Fishermen know fishing takes work. Lk 5:2-5, Jn 4:35-38. It’s stinky. The work is messy. The work...

In 1 Ki 18:23-25 Elijah said, “put no fire under”. You can’t have life without fire. You’d have no heat, no cooking, no light, etc. Likewise, you have no life in your walk with God if you have no fire. We need some fire in our private time. You can’t...

The most effectual ministers of the gospel are those who love the people to whom they are ministering.  This love is not merely human love; it’s the love of God.  And it was most apparent in the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Not only did he dearly love his...

1 Cor 14:22-25 describes a church service where unbelievers are present.  Therefore, you should invite people to church. Generally, prophesying is for the edification of believers, v.22; 1 Cor 14:4-5.  What takes place in the service should edify the saints.  Tongues, v.22, are for them that believe not, predominately because...

The texts for Pastor Haveman’s testimony are Eph 2:1-10 and Mk 5:1-20.

When God created the earth and everything in it, he made everything fruitful.  In Gen 1:11, 22, 28, he made the trees and grass fruitful, the fish and fowl fruitful, and us to be fruitful.  In Gen 9:1, after the flood, he told Noah and his sons to be fruitful...

In Jn 5:1-5 during the passover, and by the pool Bethesda, there were a great multitude of impotent folk.  People were literally everywhere during this feast.  And yet in the midst of this chaos and multitude of impotent folk, Jesus noticed that a certain man was there.  Jesus picked him...

Paul told Timothy to fight the good fight of faith.  Whether you know it or not, we are in a fight.  And our key opponent is the devil.  One of the problems in war is insufficient or inaccurate intelligence.  Thankfully, we have good intelligence.  Paul said of the devil, our...