Faithful Unto Death

Faithful Unto Death

Chip's short devotional below makes one think. Do we plan daily to be an overcomer and be faithful. I was thinking about this and I do believe I am willing. The reason I think anyone would be willing to lay their life down is because they have come to truely know Jesus Christ and He is their first love. You would do anything for your first love.
Plow on, plow on...David

TO HIM THAT OVERCOMES

By Chip Brogden

"Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life... he that overcomes will not be hurt by the second death" (Revelation 2:10b,11b).

The Crown of Life comes to those who lose their life daily in order to gain His Life daily. Overcomers cannot be hurt by death because they have already died - not once, but thousands of times: taking up the Cross daily, denying Self, and following the Lord. Thus, the highest call is not to lay down our physical life as a martyr, but to lay down our Self life as a disciple. We can lay down our physical life in an instant, but to take up the Cross daily is the truest test, and much more difficult. It requires us to be "faithful unto death". This is the secret of the Overcomers.

http://www.theschoolofchrist.org/articles/overcomes.html

Losing Focus?

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A friend of mine sent me an email talking about how we are losing our focus.

Have you noticed when driving around that weeks before Thanksgiving more and more houses are already decorated for Christmas.

People have already put the lights up on their homes and decorated their lawns. Some even have their trees up.

He noted that this was a disturbing trend and I must agree. We all must have noticed over recent years that retailers get in a great rush to publicize Christmas. As soon as Halloween is over...the Christmas decorations start going up some times even before.

It sure looks like THANKSGIVING is quickly becoming a forgotten holiday!!

Could this trend to skim-over Thanksgiving just be a reflection of what is happening in our culture - - neglecting an attitude of gratitude as individuals and as a society?

He noted that a spirit of gratitude should be at the very heart of the Christian faith. A thankful spirit is the ONLY response we can have for receiving something that we totally DO NOT deserve. In fact, when all is said and done, Christianity consists of two things: an act of grace and a response of gratitude!

"God saved you by His grace when you believed. And you can't take credit for this; it is a gift from God." -Ephesians 2:8

Regardless of your circumstances ... when you comprehend His awesome gift of undeserved grace ... how can we not but give thanks??!!

Let the words of this beautiful song ring in your ears today ...

"Give thanks with a grateful heart.
Give thanks to the Holy One.
Give thanks because He's given Jesus Christ - His Son!"

Celebrate Thanksgiving with your friends & family by GIVING THANKS to our God, The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. Thanking Jesus for what He has done.

www.christjesus.us

Video Tracts now online.

Church Webs now offer free video tracts for your website. It is very easy to use. You can also use these video tracts if you are not a Church Webs customer. They are for anyone that is wanting to use them to tell people about our Lord and Savior Jesus Chirst.

Just go to www.video-tracts.com to get the code for your website.

We are adding new video tracts all the time.

Video Tracts

I am setting up a new website called Video Tracts. www.video-tracts.com

I have not set it up yet but will be doing so very soon.