Forgiveness: Can We Forgive Without Repentance? By Pastor David Ickes Forgiveness is a doctrine of the Bible which even lost people acknowledge. Religious and non-religious people speak of the need for forgiving. While it is great that all people recognize this fact, it is also true that a worldly interpretation of what forgiveness is and […]
What Are You Waiting For? The Bible teaches that you may be “Sinning away your day of Grace,” and therefore, lose your opportunity to be saved from Hell! Many today have heard that the Bible teaches there is a day coming when Jesus will return in secret and catch away His church. Perhaps you are […]
Who Really Heads The Church? (“Sharing” His Glory?) [Isaiah 42:8, 48:1] Choose you this day whom ye will serve…” “No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Luke […]
How Big IS Your God? (Reflections on Joshua Chapter 10) The biggest problem with most professing Christians today (and preachers especially) is that their God is not very big! That is the reason that this chapter in the Bible is the most neglected of all. “So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people […]
I am so happy that my grandparents, Glen and Virgie Shivel, had moved from Kentucky and settled in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. Here they were very active in pioneering, starting and assisting in several old fashioned, Bible believing churches, often building the meeting houses with their own hands. Grandfather usually served as a deacon […]