Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Soldier -- Take Up Your Sword!

"A pilot without his chart, a scholar without his book, and a soldier without his sword, are alike ridiculous. But, above all these, it is absurd for one to think of being a Christian, without knowledge of the word of God and some skill to use this weapon." - William Gurnall, The Christian in...

Marriage & Heaven

MARRIAGE & HEAVEN.Geoffrey R. KirklandChrist Fellowship Bible Church“This mystery is great but I am speaking with reference to Christ & the Church.” —Ephesians 5.32The greatest earthly and visible picture of the gospel of Jesus Christ and His sacrificial and loving death for His Church is...

Thursday, January 22, 2015

A Primer on Corporate Worship — Its Purposes & Blessings!

A Primer on Corporate Worship — Its Purposes and Blessings Geoffrey R. Kirkland Christ Fellowship Bible Church God has designed corporate worship should be the high point of the Christian’s life. To gather with other blood-bought sinners and to pray, sing, read, fellowship & sit under the...

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

A Husband's Love for His Wife

A HUSBAND'S LOVE FOR HIS WIFE.Geoffrey R. KirklandChrist Fellowship Bible ChurchHusbands, love your wives just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her. — Ephesians 5:25What was Christ's love like?1. Initiating LoveThe love that came to us was initiated by God Himself. There is...

Saturday, January 10, 2015

Equipping the Men to be Shepherds at Home.

EQUIPPING THE MEN TO BE SHEPHERDS AT HOMETaking the Friday morning study & turning it into a marital discipleship-relationship.Christ Fellowship Bible ChurchHow can we encourage, equip & exhort the CFBC men to shepherd, nurture, instruct & pastor their wives at home? How can we as men...

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Husbands & Wives Should Discuss Sermons Together.

From Richard Steele (17th c.) who alludes to the teachings of John Chrysostom (AD347-407): "Let them [husband & wife] both go to church and then discuss the sermon together. If both are Christians already, then they should do what they can to help each other to become thorough saints. Speak often...

Training for Ministry.

From Charles Spurgeon: "What is the way to become an efficient preacher? "Young man," says one, "go to college." "Young man," says Christ, "follow me, and I will make you a fisher of men." How is a person to be useful? "Attend a training-class," says one. Quite right; but there is a surer answer...

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

The Need for Open Air Preaching & The Opposition that Comes With It.

Spurgeon talks of the perseverence of one open air preacher, John Furz, who encountered a bit of opposition when he preached. “Once recommenced, the fruitful agency of field-preaching was not allowed to cease… The preachers needed to have faces set like flints, and so indeed they had. John Furz...

A Godly Man.

A Godly Man.Geoffrey R. KirklandChrist Fellowship Bible Church 1. Know the WordAs an explorer journeys through the vast forests and the uninhabited territories with expectation and delight, so the man of God endeavors to journey through the Word of God so as to know the Truth. A man of God not just...

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Spend Time With God.

From George Whitefield's Journals: "I give to Him my soul and body to be disposed and worn out in His labours as He shall think meet. I do hence resolve, by His assistance…to lead a stricter life than ever, to give my self to prayer and the study of the Scriptures…. God give me my health,...
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