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  • Against The Tide: Pushing Back Against The Moral Climate

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Aug 18, 2012
     | 6,579 views

    Christians are called to be holy. However, we are not always certain what it means to be holy or how to achieve that status.

    1 PETER 1:13-25 AGAINST THE TIDE (PUSHING BACK AGAINST THE MORAL CLIMATE) “Preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of ...read more

  • Mistreating The Vulnerable Series

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Oct 17, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,852 views

    Christians are taught to treat the vulnerable with compassion and with generosity. The study is based upon the practised instituted by Moses for Israel, which practise is continued among the churches to this day.

    “You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry, and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your ...read more

  • Cheating The Labourer Series

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Oct 31, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,293 views

    James cautions us against cheating those to whom we are indebted. The message explores some of the parameters of this admonition.

    “Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last ...read more

  • Communion - Open, Closed, Or Cracked? Series

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Nov 7, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,359 views

    Is the Communion Meal Open to all who profess Christ? Or is it overseen by the congregation hosting the meal and thus restricted to those who are in open fellowship with the assembly? The message is a study of this controversial question.

    “In the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part, for there must be factions among you in ...read more

  • Struggling To Believe Series

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Mar 19, 2021
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,698 views

    Each Christian has likely struggled with doubts at one time or another. God's Word is given not only to reveal the Father, but to encourage us that we are accepted in the Beloved Son as we believe Him.

    “Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, ‘We have seen the Lord.’ But he said to them, ‘Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will ...read more

  • When The Giants Just Keep Coming!

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Mar 23, 2021
    based on 1 rating
     | 9,633 views

    Each Christian will face battles throughout the life they are called to live. There will not be one battle, but each of us will face multiple battles, and the situations we face may appear overwhelming as we face our own giants. But God will send a deliverer just when we need that deliverer most.

    “There was war again between the Philistines and Israel, and David went down together with his servants, and they fought against the Philistines. And David grew weary. And Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze, and who was armed ...read more

  • The Spirit God Gave Us

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Aug 21, 2020
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,094 views

    The Spirit of God lives in each twice-born follower of Christ. Because He lives in us, we are enabled to walk in power, to love as God loves, and to act with divine wisdom. God calls us to be controlled by the Spirit He placed in each of us.

    “God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” [1] She was a recent convert to Christ, and she was in tears when she phoned me. The lady was suffering from disquieting events that were occurring each night. Each evening after retiring to her bed, a malevolent presence ...read more

  • Fratricide Series

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Sep 18, 2020
     | 2,851 views

    Anger against fellow Christians destroys the Faithful, and especially does it destroy the one harbouring the hatred.

    “Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, ‘I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.’ And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground. In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ...read more

  • But Some Doubted...

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Sep 9, 2017
    based on 3 ratings
     | 10,798 views

    The struggle to believe when the evidence is before us is exemplified by the response of Apostles to the Risen Saviour.

    “The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted.” [1] This is shocking! The eleven disciples obeyed the command Jesus had given. Some women had gone to the tomb in order to prepare His body for ...read more

  • Justified? Or Judged? Series

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Sep 30, 2017
     | 5,915 views

    Is there a way for us to make ourselves acceptable to God? The Apostle Paul teaches that such a thought is an impossibility.

    “We know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.” [1] “So that ...read more

  • How Can Anything That Feels So Right Be So Wrong?

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Feb 12, 2021
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,640 views

    A Valentine's Day message emphasising the sacred nature of marriage.

    “God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’ So God created man in his own image, in the ...read more

  • It's Just A One-Night Stand! Series

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Feb 19, 2021
     | 4,516 views

    Though adultery is often justified in our world, there is no justification for this infidelity. God holds the adulterer to account, especially if that one bears the Name of Christ.

    “It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, ‘Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, ...read more

  • Fulfilled? Or Frustrated?

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Apr 30, 2022
     | 1,819 views

    Whether we live a life that is fulfilling or a life that always leaves us frustrated, is dependent upon our obedience to the revealed will of the Lord.

    DEUTERONOMY 5:32-33; 6:24-25 FULFILLED? OR FRUSTRATED? “You shall be careful therefore to do as the LORD your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. You shall walk in all the way that the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it ...read more

  • Just Ring The Bell!

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Apr 1, 2022
     | 3,532 views

    You can quit the struggle to finish the course. If you do, the impact of your life will be insignificant. If you stand firm, the impact of what you do now for Christ will yield eternal results.

    “Let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.” [1] Becoming a United States Navy Seal is arguably among the most difficult ...read more

  • If That's The Way Christians Act, I Want Nothing To Do With Their God!

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Jan 6, 2022
     | 1,757 views

    Lost people often use our failure to live as we ought to justify their rejection of Christ. While we cannot excuse them, we must know that we do offend. Therefore, we require grace to honour God and to avoid giving offence to the lost.

    “Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.” ...read more

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