Fellowship Series

I would like to inform you first of all in this final installment of the fellowship of Christs suffering that I have in no way felt competent to address the subject in any way. We have so many brothers and sisters in Christ who are suffering beyond what many of us will ever experience, who […]

Can you suffer the loss of all things, your house and everything in it, the things you may have spent years or even decades to accumulate, your friends, even your immediate family? What about all those years of training you may have spent learning your chosen trade, are willing to walk away from all that,

The word affliction has many different connotations, agitated, harassed, deep sadness, great suffering. In totality it refers to grief or distress within the body or mind and can be experienced from either internal or external forces. Many times those that we love are the ones that cause the greatest affliction in us, for we have

There is a special burden for some, if you will, those who have come out of the sheepfold, those believers who have a desire to serve in a greater capacity for our Lord, to go a little further. I have mentioned in some of my letters to you the unusualness of this desire in this

“Count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations.” (James 1:2) This statement may seem to some believers to be oxymoronic, to be happy and joyful when temptations, trials and tribulations assail us, to see them with an attitude of acceptance, but that is exactly what we are told to do. All three of

“And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian.” (Acts 7:24) If you read Acts 7:20-29 you will find some very interesting statements about Moses, especially in verse 25, for Moses thought that he was the one chosen to free his brethren by the

“Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.” (Heb. 12:4) Very few Christians, at least those in the “developed countries” in my opinion, have not suffered unto embarrassment, much less the fulfilling of this verse. Being a martyr today seems to mean being ridiculed, laughed at or made fun of because of our

I regret to say this, but not always are our adversaries outside of the church doors, the one place where we expect the fellowship to be intact and in accordance with the will and Word of God, for we are told quite clearly that “ungodly men have crept in unaware.” (Jude 1:4) This has been

To suffer ourselves, to die to self (Rom. 6:8)  may be one of the most difficult things for a Christian to do, and of course I do not mean that in the sense that we have to live with ourselves, but that we would on purpose deny ourselves any good thing. We hold ourselves, most