http://www.ggwo.org Points of Interests written by different authors. en-us Mon, 7 Jan 2008 17:57:55 GMT I suppose you are still in the 'school of the cross', learning the happy are of extracting 'real good' out of 'seeming evil', and to grow tall by stooping. The flesh is a sad untoward dunce in this school; but grace makes the spirit willing to learn by suffering; yes, it cares not what it endures, so that sin may be mortified, and a conformity to the image of Jesus be increased. Surely, when we see the most and the best of the Lord's children so often in heaviness, and when we consider how much He loves them, and what He has done and prepared for them, we may take it for granted that there is a need-be for their sufferings. For it would be easy to His power, and not a thousandth part of what His love intends to do for them should He make their whole life here, from the hour of their conversion to their death, a continued course of satisfaction and comfort, without anything to distress them from within or without. But were it so, would we not miss many advantages? http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=57 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=57 Tue, 8 Jan 2008 01:00:00 GMT Please enjoy our Christmas greeting photo http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=56 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=56 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:00:00 GMT He was promoted to glory on Dec 13th in his home, after a heart attack. http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=55 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=55 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:00:00 GMT Welcome! Our new Online Store is open for business. Here, with a move or two of your mouse and a couple of clicks, you can purchase a variety of items. On sale now: a large selection of audio messages from Pastor Carl H. Stevens Jr., Pastor Tom Schaller, Pastor Steve Scibelli and others. These messages are available in a variety of media - CD, MP3, cassette tape. Also available are books and booklets from Grace Publications, as well as other publications offered here at our Book Cafe. Soon, tickets to different GGWO events will be sold here as well. http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=53 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=53 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:00:00 GMT "By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=52 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=52 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:00:00 GMT Meditation is the means by which the soul digests truth for its nourishment and strength. It was God's command to Joshua, "This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; but you shall meditate therein day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein" (Joshua 1:8). As digestion turns food into health, so meditation turns Bible-believing into Bible-living. It turns the truths received and remembered by the mind into strong will power, genuine emotions, and holy living. http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=51 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=51 Thu, 2 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT Bored? Wondering what to do now that school is out? Don't spend your summer days in a daze. The GGWO Youth Ministry has developed an active summer program filled with Bible studies, rap sessions, day trips, outreach opportunities, and more. Our team has put together great activities designed to keep your hearts on fire for God. Check out our summer schedule at Youth ministry. Redeem your moments. Have some fun in the Son. http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=50 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=50 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT "When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him" (Isaiah 59:19b). The 'standard' is to live by every Word of God in the life of the Spirit (Matthew 4:4). It is reflective thinking with precise illumination of how Christ thinks. This standard is the truth that sanctifies us in John 17:17. http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=49 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=49 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT The fear of the Lord is to hate evil" (Proverbs 8:13). The "fear of the Lord" is one of the many names given to that new nature or principle of grace and holiness which is communicated to the Christian at his new birth. Evidence we have received this Divine gift is, that sin is now a burden and a grief to us. The longing of the renewed heart is to be completely done with sin, but this longing is only realized when we are called Home. http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=48 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=48 Tue, 5 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT Then I said, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak--for I am a child. But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child--for you shall go to all that I shall send you, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Be not afraid of their faces--for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord. Jeremiah 1:6-8 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=47 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=47 Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT An evil is in the 'professed' camp of the Lord, so gross in its impudence, that the most shortsighted Christian can hardly fail to notice it. During the past few years this evil has developed at an alarming rate. It has worked like leaven until the whole lump ferments! http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=46 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=46 Fri, 18 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT Many Christians do not understand the proper application of positional truth. I must insist that I am historically dead, historically buried, and experientially alive unto God through the resurrection of Christ. http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=44 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=44 Sat, 7 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT This year's Eurocon was a Continual Feast. We don't remember the hall being so continually packed as it was. People from 33 countries gathered: Europe, Central Asia and a few from the Middle East, Asia and South America. 132 Americans attended and we simply sensed God's presence and care for us. http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=43 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=43 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT We cannot live unto ourselves. God says that a pastor should invest in his people. Any godly pastor could go into the worst area on earth and plant a thriving ministry in a very short time. How is this done? By investment. Where does investment start? Monday morning, he knocks on doors. Monday night, he knocks on doors. http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=41 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=41 Fri, 9 Mar 2007 01:00:00 GMT God never tells us that things are going to be 'good.' He doesn't once say there will always be blessing. He does, however, tell us to be of good cheer. God has never commanded someone to do something that he cannot do. Behind every thing that God tells us to do, there is His omnipotence. Divine power gives unto all things that 'pertain into life and godliness' (2 Peter 1:3). We have God's nature dwelling within us in the Person of the Holy Spirit. We have His knowledge. We have His presence. http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=40 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=40 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:00:00 GMT In 1 Corinthians 9, Paul mentioned the word 'gospel' ten times. To me, it sounds as if he wanted to be married to the gospel. What an awesome marriage that would be! To be married to the Good News, the grace news: the Gospel http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=27 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=27 Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:00:00 GMT Many people despise the word 'doctrine.' They think of lifeless biblical teaching that chokes out the immediate presence of God. They desire a vibrant, growing relationship with Jesus Christ and fear that doctrine will rob them of it. Oftentimes http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=26 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=26 Tue, 6 Feb 2007 01:00:00 GMT If we dream with God, there is also that possibility that our dreams will turn into reality. So aim high and dream great dreams for God because in the Kingdom of God, they can come true. http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=25 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=25 Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:00:00 GMT Think of how trees seem so barren in the wintertime. Nothing on the outside of the tree indicates life, and yet on the inside the tree is very alive. That is when the sap (much like blood to our bodies) is being produced and moves the strongest, bringing http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=24 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=24 Sat, 13 Jan 2007 01:00:00 GMT 'Thinking with God' is the first daily devotional by Pastor Carl H. Stevens Jr. in more than 20 years. http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=23 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=23 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:00:00 GMT 'Train up a child in the way he should go' is the injunction God lays on us. But it is, moreover, the principle on which He Himself is acting with His Church. He is training up His children here. This is the true character of His dealings with them. The education of His saints is the object He has in view. It is training for the kingdom; it is education for eternity. http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=22 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=22 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:00:00 GMT The Book of Ruth comes at a significant place in our Bibles. It lands squarely after Judges, which closes with this illustrative verse: 'In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes' (Judges 21:25). Peril-filled times were upon the nation of Israel. The people were following every which way but the way of God. Here, however, we get a beautiful story of love and loyalty. The Lord provides a brief story of how He never removes Himself from the picture of His people's lives. http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=21 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=21 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:00:00 GMT The Holy Spirit is really grieved when we don't consistently live from the viewpoint that Jesus Christ paid for all of our sins and did so much for each of us. Instead, our viewpoint is often to treat others the way we think they should be treated because of their faults. Consider Paul's failures, as he related them in http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=20 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=20 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:00:00 GMT For the church, spiritual leadership remains a vital principle to understand. The apostle Paul clearly recognized this and he took great care to communicate the things he had learned to the younger men who worked with him. Paul's pastoral epistles '" 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus '" contain practical and spiritual instructions that will always ring true. He clearly wanted these men to understand the elements that go along with being a pastor. http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=19 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=19 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:00:00 GMT God has such a way of touching us and then using us to touch people. This is the story of my summer trip to Warsaw. My heart was so warmed for this visit. There were several challenges just to get from America to Poland and these things only made the trip all the more precious to me. http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=18 http://www.ggwo.org/index.php?module=main&action=poiarticle&id=18 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:00:00 GMT