FEBRUARY
28
Keyword:
SPAR by:
Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
Acts 17:17-18:
Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worshipers, and in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be there. Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, "What does this babbler want to say?"
I was watching an old Video of that great Yorkshire giant, Leonard Ravenhill. He was recounting a story which took place in the early 20th Century on the streets of his home city of Leeds in England, where an atheist was verbally accosting church attendees, laughing and shouting and scorning them with words like “Why are you going to hear a man speaking from behind a coward’s castle, a pulpit, you can’t talk to him ...
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FEBRUARY
27
Keyword:
FIGHT by:
Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
Acts 12:23, 24:
Then immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And he was eaten by worms and died. But the word of God grew and multiplied.
Just a few days ago in AD303 Gelerius Velerius Maxiniamus issued an edict demanding the persecution of Christians. Lasting eight years, this last great persecution of Christians by the Roman Empire was often so violent, that even the pagans were disgusted.
In AD 311, while preparing for his twentieth anniversary celebrations as both Caesar and Augustus, Galerius was suddenly overcome by a serious disease. First, ...
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FEBRUARY
27
Keyword:
APPREHEND by:
Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
Lamentations 1:9:
Her uncleanness is in her skirts; She did not consider her destiny; Therefore her collapse was awesome; She had no comforter. "O Lord, behold my affliction, For the enemy is exalted!"
The current commercials on Television tell me that with the cost of one cup of coffee per month, I can help save the lives of ten million children each year. That’s pretty dramatic? That’s pretty wonderful. It got me thinking though, I mean what would those countries do with ten million more children per year?
There is no question that life should be saved, especially if it is saved so cheaply. However, it is ...
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FEBRUARY
25
Keyword:
RETREAT by:
Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
Numbers 16:1-3:
Now Korah the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men; and they rose up before Moses with some of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation, representatives of the congregation, men of renown. They gathered together against Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "You take too much upon yourselves, for all the congregation is holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?" NKJV
The Bible is the scariest book I have ever read. The aspects it presents us with regarding our Holy and loving God, are both punishingly perplexing and terribly troubling!
In Numbers chapter 16, to say that the Lord got a little annoyed at His people is so much an understatement that it verges on reefer madness! Let’s face it, let’s man up about this friends, for in the plain reading of the text, God lost it ...
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FEBRUARY
25
Keyword:
HOPE by:
Rev. Victor Robert Farrell
Gal 5:15:
But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!
At Buckingham Palace, this day in 2004, Her Majesty the Queen awarded the ‘George Cross’ to Trooper Christopher Finney, who was then aged only 19. Imagine that!
The G.C. was instituted in 1940 by King George VI during World War II and is awarded only for acts of the greatest heroism or of the most conspicuous courage, displayed in circumstances of extreme danger. It is equivalent to the Victoria Cross as the ...
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