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Category Archives: Influence
Can a Person Truly Change?
Can a person truly change? Mel Trotter did. Trotter was born to a Christian mother and an alcoholic father. By age 19, he was drinking heavily himself as well as gambling. He met and married a young woman and fathered … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Belief, Change, Choices, Depravity, Forgiveness, Gambling, God's Love, God's Work, Husbands, Influence, Marriage, Ministry, Problems, Repentance, Salvation, Sin
Tagged alcoholism, can a person truly change?, Gambling, how to quit drinking, Mel Trotter, Mel Trotter Ministries, Pacific Garden Mission, recovering from alcoholism, The Mel Trotter Mission, transformation through Christ
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The Power of One
…one sinner destroys much good. (Ecclesiastes 9:18, N.K.J.V.) Wow, you talk about a statement with truth to it! These words from Ecclesiastes punch us right in the face, don’t they? What a sad but very real fact it is that … Continue reading
Posted in Christ's Second Coming, Christ's Return, Coming Judgment, Current Events, God's Timing, God's Wrath, God's Judgment, Human Life, Influence, Prophecy
Tagged Bible prophecy, Christ's millennial reign, Christ's thousand year reign, the battle of Armageddon, the last days, the power of one person to destroy, the tribulation period, times will wax worse and worse
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Conflict Within the Church
W.B. Riley, who served as the pastor of First Baptist Church of Minneapolis, Minnesota, for some fifty years, told the following story: In my first pastorate, three of my church officials had refused for three full years to speak to … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, Christian Unity, Church, Church Discipline, Confession, Deacons, Doing Good, Extending Forgiveness, Forgiveness, God's Work, Influence, Pastors
Tagged addressing problems within the church, Christian Unity, church discipline, churching someone, conflict within the church, First Baptist Church of Minneapolis, W.B. Riley
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A Different Way to Preach the Gospel
An army private became a Christian and began to experience some persecution from his fellow soldiers. One rainy night he came in very tired and wet, but he still got down on his knees and prayed before he went to … Continue reading
Posted in Character, Doing Good, Evangelism, Extending Forgiveness, Humility, Influence, Mercy, Persecution, Perseverance, Personal Holiness, Prayer, Salvation, Trials, Witnessing
Tagged a private wins his sergeant to Christ, a sergeant gets saved, Evangelism, Francis of Assisi, good deeds, preaching the gospel, soul-winning
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The Third Suit
Here’s a story that plays off my previous post about the original Sunday Schools. In one of Scotland’s manufacturing towns, a young lady applied to the superintendent of a Sunday School and asked for a class. He advised her to … Continue reading
Sunday School
Most people don’t know that the Sunday Schools of today’s churches bear little resemblance to the original Sunday Schools of England’s late 1700s. Those schools were quite literally places of basic education where poor children could learn to read and … Continue reading
Be a Good Neighbor
He who despises his neighbor sins… (Proverbs 14:21, N.K.J.V.) Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. (Romans 13:10, N.K.J.V.) Jesus said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God will all … Continue reading
The Golden Rule
When you talk about the Old Testament law that God gave to the people of Israel, you’re on a BIG subject. Likewise, when you talk about the many prophecies that were given by God’s prophets from the Old Testament era, … Continue reading
Slander
Ray Donovan was the Secretary of Labor under President Reagan. His time in office was marked by a highly publicized case in which Donovan and six others were tried in New York on charges of larceny and fraud. In the … Continue reading
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