On the benefits of going to a church, in person.

One thing should be said.  Online ministry is just a supplement at the very best, in the place of a brick-and-mortar church fellowship.  We can't do justice to a real church without noting the diligence and counsel of a pastor and deacons, duly elected and appointed church officials, who are put in place for your benefit as a church-goer.

Also, fellowship with other believers is important.  These fellow church people are going through some of the same problems as you, and facing some similar challenges in their daily walks.

Online ministry is just a helper to all this, and not a satisfactory replacement.

Go to church, give your 10% to the church, putting it into God's storehouse.

This site on the other hand, has a tip jar which is just for people that want to give to our organization; it is not required, nor demanded.  You can donate here(site tip jar).

some verses of the day, January 10, 2023

 

Various verses of the day, January 9, 2023

 

Tozer on knowing God.

Let a Christian insist upon rising above the poor average of current religious experience and he will soon come up against the need to know God Himself as the ultimate goal of all Christian doctrine. Let him seek to explore the sacred wonders of the Triune Godhead and he will discover that sustained and intelligently directed meditation on the Person of God is imperative. To know God well he must think on Him unceasingly. Nothing that man has discovered about himself or God has revealed any short cut to pure spirituality. It is still free, but tremendously costly.

-AW Tozer

Spurgeon on devotion in being saved.

The believer did not always live to Christ. He began to do so when God the Holy Spirit convinced him of sin, and when by grace he was brought to see the dying Saviour making a propitiation for his guilt. From the moment of the new and celestial birth the man begins to live to Christ. Jesus is to believers the one pearl of great price, for whom we are willing to part with all that we have. He has so completely won our love, that it beats alone for him; to his glory we would live, and in defence of his gospel we would die; he is the pattern of our life, and the model after which we would sculpture our character.  -Charles H Spurgeon

AW Tozer on politics...

It is not complimentary to the masses that they are so easily led, but we are not interested in praising or blaming; we are concerned for truth, and the truth is that for better or for worse religious people follow leaders. A good man may change the moral complexion of a whole nation; or a corrupt and worldly clergy may lead a nation into bondage....  -AW Tozer

Youversion verse of the day January 8, 2023