Laboring In The Lord Blog Posts

• The Eccentric Preacher
  on May 25, 2013 in Church History Alcoholic Cattle Charles Spurgeon Compliments Cornwall England Excitement Glory Glory Glory Glory To God Heaven Joey Madman Methodists Orphans People Praising God Preacher Preachers Saturday Afternoon Spin Trees
  The Eccentric Preacher Charles Spurgeon once wrote a little book entitled Eccentric Preachers. He described 11 peculiar ministers, his concluding example being Billy Bray of Cornwall, England. Billy, an alcoholic miner, found the Lord at age 29. “I...
• THOT 4 2 Day — 05.25.13
  on May 25, 2013 in THOT 4 2 Day 1 John Being A Christian Bible Dietrich Bonhoeffer God Isaiah
  Read your Bible in 1 year: 05.25 Numbers 34 Psalms 78:40-72 Isaiah 26 1 John 4 “Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God’s will.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer <:))))><<...
• Storm Greater: Afraid!
  on May 24, 2013 in Church History Aldersgate Street Awestruck Composure Dear Life English Passengers Evangelist German Missionaries John Wesley Mainsail Mid Atlantic Missionary Moravian Missionaries Moravians Pouring Water Psalmist Sailing Ship Social Reformer Towering Waves Treacherous Three Worship Service
  Storm Greater: Afraid! “Even when I am afraid,” said the psalmist, “I keep on trusting you” (Psalm 56:3). John Wesley had never been so frightened as on January 25, 1736. He was aboard a small sailing ship somewhere in the mid-Atlantic in mid...
• THOT 4 2 Day — 05.24.13
  on May 24, 2013 in THOT 4 2 Day 1 John Anarchy Bible Book Of Judges Chuck Smith Ethics Isaiah Orderly Society Own Eyes Philosophers Word God
  Read your Bible in 1 year: 05.24 Numbers 33 Psalms 78:1-39 Isaiah 25 1 John 3 “It is foolish for philosophers to tell us there is no universal right and wrong. There is a basis for ethics, and it is found in God’s Word. God tells us every...
• Pastor Saeed Abedini
  on May 24, 2013 in The Persecuted Church Freedom Iran Pastor Saeed Abedini
  Pastor Saeed Abedini Thanks for “Praying and Fighting for my Freedom” – Pastor Saeed From Iran Prison Saeed Abedini’s Story <:))))><<...
• THOT 4 2 Day — 05.23.13
  on May 23, 2013 in THOT 4 2 Day 1 John Bible Charles Spurgeon Descendants God Innovators Isaiah Lord Jesus Christ True Servants
  Read your Bible in 1 year: 05.23 Numbers 32 Psalms 77 Isaiah 24 1 John 2 When a man once had a good thought, he should not be afraid of it because nobody else had thought of it. He should do it and dare it, defying custom if it thwarted him, tearing...
• Naghmeh Abedini Testimony
  on May 23, 2013 in Blog Email Intimacy With Jesus Naghmeh Abedini Testimony
  Naghmeh Abedini Testimony <:))))><< Sign up to receive Laboring In The Lord by email and receive an ebook; Intimacy With Jesus:...
• The Thirty Years’ War
  on May 23, 2013 in Church History Bitter Snows Christian Artists Christian Education Christian Educator Ferdinand Ii France Europe Fugitives Hapsburg Jan Amos Comenius John Hus King Ferdinand Little Flock Manure Moravians Mountains And Highlands Protestants Seventeenth Century Tattered Clothes Thirty Years War Treaty Of Westphalia
  The Thirty Years’ War Seventeenth-century Bohemia was a beautiful area at the center of Europe, encircled by mountains and highlands, home of the Moravians. It was the land of John Hus who died for the Reformation before Luther even launched it. An...
• THOT 4 2 Day — 05.22.13
  on May 22, 2013 in Blog 1 John Bible Hook Isaiah Proof R T Kendall Total Forgiveness
  Read your Bible in 1 year: 05.22 Numbers 31 Psalms 75-76 Isaiah 23 1 John 1 “The ultimate proof of total forgiveness takes place when we sincerely petition the Father to let those who have hurt us off the hook — even if they have hurt not...
• The Forgotten Basin
  on May 22, 2013 in Church History Alexandrian Ancient Rome Angry Letters Bishop Of Rome Bosporus Council Of Chalcedon Council Of Nicaea Ecumenical Council Emperor Constantine Evangelist Mark Fifth Emperor Imperial City New Rome Patriarch Of Constantinople Pope Leo Prerogatives Righ Roman Capital Roman World Testament Records
  The Forgotten Basin The last half of our Lord’s ministry was marred by envy and infighting among his followers. The disciples plotted against each other even on the eve of Christ’s crucifixion, prompting him to wrap himself in a towel and wash th...
• Infinite Wisdom
  on May 21, 2013 in Blog
  Infinite Wisdom Isaac Watts, called the “Father of English Hymns,” wrote such classics as O God Our Help in Ages Past, Joy to the World, At the Cross, and 600 others. He was a small, odd man whose life was shaped by his father, Isaac, senior. The...
• THOT 4 2 Day — 05.21.13
  on May 21, 2013 in THOT 4 2 Day Bible Day Of The Year Fear God Isaiah Peace Presence Ramon Presson Scripture
  Read your Bible in 1 year: 05.21 Numbers 30 Psalms 74 Isaiah 22 2 Peter 3 “God is at peace in himself, and in his presence there is peace. The most repeated negative command in Scripture is ‘fear not.’ It appears 365 times — one for each day...
• Tortured
  on May 20, 2013 in Church History Accusations Adversaries Anabaptist Baptism Believer Benedictine Monk Brethren Chunks Cro Eternal God Fire And Sword Flock Gallows Martyr Monastery Persecutors Prelude Renown Ropes Tongs
  Tortured God’s grace arrives just as we need it, appropriate for every challenge. Even if we’re lonely? Even if we’re ill? Yes. Even if we’re tortured? Even then. Michael Sattler, born in Germany around 1490, became a Benedictine monk. As he...
• THOT 4 2 Day — 05.20.13
  on May 20, 2013 in THOT 4 2 Day Bible Cambell Courage Diaconate Isaiah Prayer Preachers Psalms 73
  Read your Bible in 1 year: 05.20 Numbers 29 Psalms 73 Isaiah 21 2 Peter 2 “Nothing is more needed among preachers today than that we should have the courage to shake ourselves free from the thousand and one trivialities in which we are asked to was...
• How Do You Say Amen?
  on May 20, 2013 in Humor Cartoon Radio Free Babylon Tip Of The Hat
              Click on the image if you are having trouble reading the cartoon. Tip of the hat to Radio Free Babylon <:))))><<...
• Sunday Quotes 05.19.13
  on May 19, 2013 in Sunday Quotes Affections Chuck Smith Experience Freedom Flesh And Blood Glory Of God God In History Google Inactivity Incarnation Isaiah John Piper Natural Result Obedience Oswald Chambers Paul David Tripp Place Of Peace Selfishness Steve Brown Supreme Goal Work Prayer
  Read your Bible in 1 year: 05.19 Numbers 28 Psalms 72 Isaiah 19-20 2 Peter 1 “God’s delays are not the delays of inactivity; they are the delays of preparation.” — Chuck Smith “Obedience, pure and simple, opens up a path...
• The Earthquake Synod
  on May 19, 2013 in Church History Archbishop Of Canterbury Bible Teacher British Politician Courtenay Divinity Friars John Foxe John Wycliffe Morning Star Oxford Professor Professor John Psalm 46 Religious Persons Selling Indulgences Special Committee St Dunstan Superstitions Synod Teacher John
  The Earthquake Synod “God is our … fortress,” says Psalm 46. “And so, we won’t be afraid! Let the earth tremble. … ” The trembling of the earth may even reassure God’s children of his power, as happened on this day, St. Dunstan’s Da...
• He Just Persisted
  on May 18, 2013 in Church History Arctic Ocean Bering Sea Boom Towns Eskimos Five Feet Food Clothing Golden Spike Gunfighters Hamlets Hidden Coasts Mohawk Valley Natural Food Open Skies Prairie Fire Princeton Seminary Princeton Theological Seminary Saloons Seven Churches Sheldon Jackson Teepee Union Pacific Railway Wagon Trains
  He Just Persisted We often rush when we should plod, forgetting that we usually accomplish more by persisting than by hurrying. Sheldon Jackson was born on May 18, 1834 in the Mohawk Valley of New York. When he was four his parents dedicated him to G...
• How about “Hallelujah!”
  on May 17, 2013 in Church History Barns Biographers Carriages Eighteenth Century Famous Preachers Greatest Joy Grief Grimshaw Hallelujah Haworth Inhabitant Knowing Christ Listeners Obscurity Parson Pastoring Quarries Sinner Todmorden Zeal
  How about “Hallelujah!” William Grimshaw was born in rural England in 1708, educated at Cambridge, and ordained to the ministry in 1731 without knowing Christ. Three years later while pastoring in Todmorden, he felt deep concern about his soul. H...
• THOT 4 2 Day — 05.17.13
  on May 17, 2013 in THOT 4 2 Day 1 Peter Convenience Isaiah Living God Notion Open Bible Tozer
  Read your Bible in 1 year: 05.17 Numbers 26 Psalms 69 Isaiah 16 1 Peter 4 “If you would follow on to know the Lord, come at once to the open Bible expecting it to speak to you. Do not come with the notion that it is a thing which you may push aroun...