Weekly Devotional by Al Baker
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITS volume 17, number 13, April 5, 2018 ". . . having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia . . . they were trying to go to Bithynia and the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them." -Acts 16:6,7 What Is Your Target Audience? If you... Continue Reading →
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITS volume 17, number 12, March 29, 2018 "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." -Acts 2:38 How to Be Successful in Ministry Perhaps this heading takes you by... Continue Reading →
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITS volume 17, number 11, March 22, 2018 ". . . what Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed. . . in the power of the Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have fully preached... Continue Reading →
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITS volume 17, number 9, March 15, 2018 "God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent." -Acts 17:30 Why So Little Preaching of Repentance? A few weeks ago I raised the question of why there is so little preaching of repentance in the modern, western church when... Continue Reading →
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITS volume 17, number 10, March 8, 2018 "Do nothing from selfishness or empty deceit, but with humility of mind, let each of you consider one another as more important than yourselves." -Philippians 2:3,4 Psychotherapy and the Lack of Repentance Karl Menninger, the famed psychologist, in response to the folly of... Continue Reading →
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITS volume 17, number 9, March 1, 2018 "But we have the mind of Christ." - 1 Corinthians 2:16 Why? A Pew Research poll[1], released on December 16, 2015, asked the question, "Should homosexuality be accepted by society?" The percentage who are "okay with that", in all denominations, not just historically... Continue Reading →
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITS volume 17, number 8, February 22, 2018 "Judah was the father of Perez and Zorah by Tamar." -Matthew 1:3a Scoundrels in the Covenant Line We find in Genesis 38 the story of Judah and his daughter-in-law Tamar, which is pretty problematic to read in family worship with young children. Try explaining... Continue Reading →
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITS volume 17, number 7, February 15, 2018 "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." -Matthew 4:17 The First Thing Missing in Today's Evangelical Church In what Biblical scholars call Jesus' early Galilean ministry (beginning in Matthew 4:12), after His baptism by John and his temptation in the wilderness,... Continue Reading →
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITS volume 17, number 6, February 8, 2018 ". . . I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled some of the hair from my head and my beard, and sat down appalled." -Ezra 9:3 Are You Appalled at the Perversion? I came home the other day and my wife... Continue Reading →
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITS volume 17, number 5, February 1, 2018 "And He made from one, every nation of mankind to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitations." -Acts 17:26 Why Do So Many People Want to Immigrate to the United States?... Continue Reading →
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITS 