Teaching by George Lewellyn (Page 60)

Today we will learn about how Jesus Christ is our pattern for giving. He didn’t give 5% of what He had, or even 10% of what He had. He gave all He had for the Kingdom of God. Sad to say, but most of us are content with giving the Lord the leftovers of our life-as depicted in the little poem below: …

Jon Courson tells the story of an offering that was being taken at a revival in Africa. As the plate came past a new Christian, he told the ushers to lower the plate. “Lower, lower, lower,“ he said, until the plate touched the ground. At that point, he stood up and stepped into the plate.  This new…

Patrick Morley, in his book I Surrender, writes that the church’s main problem today is in the error “that we think we can add Christ to our lives, but not subtract sin. It is a change in belief without a change in behavior. It is revival without reformation, without repentance.”…

God has given us all a “call to duty.” He has made us His ambassadors to this lost and dying world we live in. In order to be effective in our calling, we must befriend lost sinners, while remaining separate from their sin.  As Vance Havner once said, “We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it. Separation is contact…

A few years back, a Christian magazine did a study and discovered that over 80% of those who enter into full-time ministry quit within five years. How could that be so? One of the main reasons so many don’t last in the ministry is that they have faulty motives. In today’s text, Paul gives us the…

One day a preacher who had just experienced a terrible personal tragedy, walked past a construction site where a huge cathedral was being built. As he watched the men work, he noticed one man carving a small triangle out of granite with a chisel and a hammer. The preacher called out to the stone…

In our study on Wednesday nights in Judges, we’ve been looking at this strange character named Micah. He was a religious man who thought he was well-pleasing to God. He had a nice home, and in his home he had his own religious shrine set up with silver idols of god. He also had his own Levite…

If an airline company was to give you the privilege of flying anywhere you wanted to, anytime you wanted to, that would be great, wouldn’t it? But if they didn’t provide the plane with gas, you wouldn’t go anywhere. The workings of flying a plane are not nearly as complicated as the supernatural…