Today I want to discuss an intriguing subject, the subject of disastrous witnessing for Christ. Our text is found in Proverbs 18:19: “A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city…
Years ago, a celebrated deliverance evangelist stated that God had shown him that there was nothing God would not do for him if he touched not the gold nor the glory. But in the years that ensued, he went all out for both, and spiritual speaking became but a shadow of his former self. A … Read more
By Lennard Darbee Six years ago, as a Baptist evangelist, I sat in the Tacoma ice arena with 5,000 others, goggle-eyed at the ministry of Rev. William Branham. He did not ask the sick the nature of their affliction, he told them and, at his word crossed eyes straightened, goiters disappeared, the deaf and dumb … Read more
“Today as we discuss the matter of faded dreams, our text is found in Ecclesiastes 1:14-15. 14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.15That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
As we consider the subject, Fenced in by Jesus, I’m reminded that a number of years ago, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention aroused a firestorm of protest when he said that no Orthodox Jew could ever enter heaven. Immediately he was stigmatized as a bigot, a racist, anti-Semitic and what not. But, of … Read more
