WE BUILD BY FAITH

By Adam Ricks / March 9, 2016 /

It is with your heart that you believe and are justified. ROMANS 10:10 NIV Friend, come up higher! Do not be content with good works: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the fatherless and widowed in their affliction, or the sick and those in prison, and the stranger. Do you preach the truth of…

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WHAT IS YOUR FOUNDATION?

By Adam Ricks / March 8, 2016 /

Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. 2 CORINTHIANS 13:5 NIV It closely concerns every one of us to apply personally and practically our Lord’s teachings about building upon a sure foundation. We each need to diligently examine what foundation we have built upon, whether on a rock or on…

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Keep Christianity Weird March 6th

By Adam Ricks / March 7, 2016 /

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THE HOUSE ON THE ROCK STANDS FIRM

By Adam Ricks / March 7, 2016 /

“And the rain…the floods…the winds…slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.” MATTHEW 7:25 Let not even the one who builds on the everlasting Rock of Ages think that there will be no more warfare. He or she is not out of the reach of…

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THE SURE FOUNDATION

By Adam Ricks / March 5, 2016 /

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. HEBREWS 13:8 The Lord Jesus Christ is fitly called the everlasting Rock of Ages for He changes not. To Him, both the men of God of old and the apostle citing His words bear witness: “ ‘You, LORD, in the beginning laid the foundation of…

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BUILDING UPON THE ROCK

By Adam Ricks / March 4, 2016 /

“Everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.” MATTHEW 7:24 Examine the wisdom of those who do the sayings of our Lord, those who build upon a rock. They are indeed wise, who do “the will of My Father…

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God’s Way Is Perfect

By Adam Ricks / March 2, 2016 /

“The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart.” Psalm 19:8 There is a kind of order wherein God Himself is generally pleased to use these means in bringing a sinner to salvation. One goes senselessly on in his own way. God comes upon him unaware—by an awakening sermon or conversation, an…

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Trust and Obey

By Adam Ricks / March 1, 2016 /

The Lord is my strength and song and He has become my salvation. Exodus 15:2 “Yes,” say some, “but God has appointed another way: ‘Stand still ad see that salvation of God.’” Let us examine the Scriptures t which you refer. The first of them, with the context, runs thus: “10 As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites…

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A Prayer for Preservation.

By Adam Ricks / February 24, 2016 /

O merciful GOD, by whose bounty alone it is, that this day is added to my life, I beseech thee so to guide me in it by thy grace, that I may do nothing which may dishonor thee, or wound my own soul, but that I may diligently apply myself to all such good works…

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In Remembrance of Me

By Adam Ricks / February 23, 2016 /

“Eat this bread and drink this cup.” 1 Corinthians 11:26 All who desire an increase of the grace of God are to wait for it, thirdly, in partaking of the Lord’s Supper, for this also is a direction the Lord Himself gave. “The same night which He was Betrayed (He) took bread; and…broke it and…

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