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I wrote this story today, inspired by a story related by Ed Wallace on KLIF 570 on Saturday morning, on his backside of American history. I am dedicating it first to the glory of God, and also to a young lady severely injured in the line of combat duty while on mission to save life in the field...

I wrote this story today, inspired by a story related by Ed Wallace on KLIF 570 on Saturday morning, on his backside of American history. I am dedicating it first to the glory of God, and also to a young lady severely injured in the line of combat duty while on mission to save life in the...

This SoF has added Calvinist doctrine that is not necessarily present in a general Baptist SoF

Interesting question. People have often asked me why the name DesertJoe. I have recently become a resident of the UK (Scotland to be exact), and back in the states I started doing an encouragement ministry online. We so often go through deserts in this life. These can be deserts of the heart, of...

May this "un-knowable" God bless you. As a new resident of the UK, I want to say hello. I so understand where you are coming from. So many opinions. So many who have heard from God, and yet they all seem to say different things. As a Christian, I am amazed at times by all the personal revelation...

There are many in evangelical circles,particularly the Reform/Calvinists,that rely very heavily on intellect in there approach to belief,& as I stated about Barth,He loved God with all the intellect that he had.That is kind of a loaves & fish statement.God gives to all a measure of gifts &...

How deep an intellect does it take to know Jesus? Jesus said this to His followers when they were trying to prevent little children from coming to Him in Matthew 19: 13Then little children were brought to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked...

This message was something that I have had on my heart for many years.I never really sat down & put this into words before,but God said that this was the day to actually write this.If there is anything here that is of worth,give the glory to God,for the thoughts came from Him.Any roughness or...

A bumpy ride to Jesus 38“You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’g 39But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as...

On October 28th,1949, Jim Elliot wrote these words in his journal, and I quote "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." On January 8th 1956, Jim was killed by the Huaorani ( also known as the Auca) natives in Peru,while on mission to bring the good news of...

Philippians 3:10 & 11 10)I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,11) and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. To know Him in the power of His resurrection is to know Him in...

If you have not already done it, accept the ultimate friend request while there is still time, For it says this in 2nd Corinthians 2:6) For he says, "In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you." I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of...

Isaiah 28:21) The LORD will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon--to do his work, his strange work, and perform his task, his alien task. In the context of Isaiah 28, We see a proud nation (Ephraim,AKA Israel) that is facing coming judgment. Sound...

In the book of Job Chapter 31 verse 1 Job said this : “I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?" Job was saying that he was CHOOSING to have eyes ONLY for his wife. Guys, we can do this. If Jesus Christ is truly the 1st love of our life, we can truly "Only have...

Dayenu... the chant sung at Passover (Pesach in the Hebrew). Dayenu is a compound word meaning literally "enough to us", & dynamically understood as "It would have been enough". When Jesus came to earth, He celebrated a last seder (We call it the last supper) where He drank from the 3rd cup...

Let us worship Jesus... & when we do, remember our words of worship are written in His blood. Even so... Hallelujah... we love you Lord. Please come soon.

Many of us have had the experience of bringing home a stray dog or cat when we were young. We would generally go to mom (because she had the softer heart) & ask if we could keep the dog or cat. Our heart was filled with compassion for this little animal who had no home. The sad thing is that as...

In Genesis 3 we find these words 1Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” 2The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden...

Was listening to a friend tonight whose mother is literally on death's door. I truly did not know how to pray, nor did I have words for my friend. All I could do was be there, and I remembered how I told Mandi, my wife and the love of my life how nice it would be at times to have a wand, and the...

I recalled recently the truly miraculous circumstances that brought this video to a friend... & then to me. I still pray for that friend, & I still want to see God's very best for my friend, & I still am blown away... by this video. I so hope it speaks to you as it does to me. YouTube...