by Dewayne Spivey | Aug 9, 2022 | Pulpit Minister
The title of a song I remember as being a favorite when I was a child. I’m glad we still sing it today. Theodore Monod wrote the words in 1874. “O, the bitter pain and sorrow that a time could ever be, when I proudly said to Jesus, ‘All of self and none of thee.’”...
by Dewayne Spivey | Aug 2, 2022 | Pulpit Minister
Is the following an example of Jesus using practical application? A man asked Jesus, “What shall I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus in essence replied, “What does God say?” “What do you understand the Bible to say?” Are you reading the Bible? Do you understand what...
by Dewayne Spivey | Jul 26, 2022 | Pulpit Minister
I finally caught up on my ironing last night. I had been putting it off for a few days. Uh, yes, I know how to iron. Our mother made sure her boys knew how to iron, vacuum, clean house, wash dishes and clothes. Was your mother not mean like that? I’ve even ironed with...
by Dewayne Spivey | Jul 19, 2022 | Pulpit Minister
Genesis is the first book of the Bible. We learn a lot about God in the first three chapters and none of it changes. The Bible is a big book, but the lessons of the first three chapters remain. God created man as male and female. His first directive to them was “to be...
by Dewayne Spivey | Jul 12, 2022 | Pulpit Minister
We help support the School of Biblical Studies in Jos, Nigeria. It has been and continues to be a very productive work in various countries in Africa and even other continents. Several years ago, two students from Uganda attended the school in Jos, and upon their...
by Dewayne Spivey | Jul 5, 2022 | Pulpit Minister
We all want it. We often misunderstand it. Too often, we consider freedom to mean our ability to do whatever we want to do. But the problem with that is the reality that we cannot live that way. What we want to do may not be what we need to do. It may not be what is...
