On June 5, 1991, I took my text from Isaiah 59:1-2 and verses 9-14. The title of my message came from verse 14 where it says, “Truth Is Fallen In The Street.” A lot has changed since I first preached that sermon 33 years ago, and truth seems to have been one of the greatest…
In the fall of 1866, Robert Jermain Thomas boarded a ship headed for Pyongyang, Korea. He knew his mission would most likely cost him his life, but he chose to go. Though contact with Westerners was forbidden, the British Trading Company was looking for a way to open a trade agreement with Korea. They needed…
My two previous devotionals spoke about God moving in America, but God was about to birth something across the pond that would shake the world. Evan Roberts was a young man from the mining town of Loughor, Wales. Raised in a Christian home, he began praying for a mighty move of God. He became convinced…
My readings recently found me looking once again at some of the great revivals of the past. In my previous devotion, I mentioned “The Great Awakening,” which literally impacted the birth of America. Secularists try to deny it, but this nation was founded upon the teachings of the Bible. In my teachings on the history…
Salvation is more than an emotional experience. A.W. Tozer expressed it this way: “Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which briefly stated means this: before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man. We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that…
Like many of you, I grew up hearing people testify to being saved, sanctified, and filled with the Holy Ghost. It was a three-step process, and you should be able to identify when each one happened. I know a minister who was initially refused a ministerial license because he could not tell the committee when…
In the days leading up to John Wesley, what could be described as a “falling away” had occurred. He saw a great need for living a holy life. Those who agreed with him began preaching what we would call living a sanctified life. They were methodical in their belief system, hence the word “Methodist.” As…
Holiness has become a word that many churches are trying to avoid like the plague. They remove it from their sign for fear it will run people away; they remove it from their songs and sermons for the same reason, and yet the Bible plainly says in Hebrews 12:14, “Follow peace with all men, and…