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By Whole Truth Help
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Monday, March 02, 2009 19:06 |
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THE STRANGER
A little girl sat crying in the schoolyard one day, When a stranger came up to her and began to say: "Sweetheart, why are you weeping? Is there anything I can do?" The little girl looked up and seeing a kind face asked, "Who are you?" The man said: "I’ve been watching you weeping; You’ve been crying for so long." Wiping the tears from her eyes she replied, "The teacher told me today that I couldn’t sing my favorite song."
"Well now," said the stranger, "What song is so bad
That the words you cannot even say?"
"The song was Jesus Loves Me," she sobbed, "I learned it in church last Sunday." |
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By Whole Truth Help
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Saturday, February 28, 2009 20:00 |
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 As we shall see in moment, it is far more than a prayer for America. It is a confession of national sin, and a cry for national repentance of and cleansing from her sinful ways. However, upon even closer notice, not national sins, but national sin, as Billy Graham reduces all of America’s sins to one, which is described in the Bible in Isaiah 5:20, and which we must Americanize:
“Woe to America who calls evil good,
and good evil….”
One has to let that sink in slowly to feel the horror of it all, for when an entire nation calls evil good and good evil, the catastrophic effects of both are numberless and inconceivable. In fact, isn’t that what you have found yourself saying these days in reaction to this or that moral deterioration in America, “I don’t know what to say except it is inconceivable.” Why? Because: "A NATION THAT CALLS EVIL GOOD IN ESSENCE IS CALLING THE DEVIL DIVINE.”
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By Bob Klingenberg
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Saturday, January 03, 2009 07:08 |
Ther  e is never more than enough time, in case you haven’t noticed! There is no excess, never a surplus. Even at its longest, time seems never to be long enough. It flies by, and cannot be stopped. Once it is gone, it has slipped away forever. It cannot be recaptured. It never stands still, for it is always passing away, and with it mankind passes away too.
2008 is now history and we do not know how much of 2009 there will be for anyone of us. Thousands of people run out of time each day, and some day in this new year time could run out for me and you too.
I recall fondly and emotionally yet today the life and passing of a colleague and friend of mine by the name of Wesley Smedes, brother of pastor and well-known author Louis Smedes. Pastor Wes was stricken with cancerous brain tumors at an all-too-young age. I vividly recall the day that I called on him and his wife in Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids, MI. He saw me as I walked into the room and he began to cry. I remember vividly when his wife, after a few moments of warmest greetings, said to me, “He is happy to see you Bob, but he is crying because he has so much more for the Lord he wants to do.” Wes went to Heaven soon after that, and the lesson I learned in the hospital that day will never be forgotten by this preacher.
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By Bob Klingenberg
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Saturday, January 03, 2009 07:08 |
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 WHILE IT IS DAY
“…as long as it is day….” Day! Not days, but day! He did not say, "As long as there are days." No, He only allows each of us our day. All of life He wants us to live as the one and only day. Christianity has been in the world now above 2000 years, but it is still measured by a day’s length. However, I sense we are close to dusk and night has begun to fall.
If we were to ask the Lord on our way to Heaven how long it will be before we get there, and who hasn’t asked Him that question if only silently, I think He would respond, “A day’s journey.” But of course, being the children that we are, the children of God no less, like children we continue to ask, “Are we there yet.” And He says, “Very soon.” We then persist, “When?” I can hear Him say, “At day’s end.”
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By Whole Truth Help
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Thursday, January 01, 2009 06:52 |
 We are compelled to ask a most pointed and pressing question these days, “What does it mean anymore to be a “ Christian Believer?” A really volatile question today I tell you. One of the hottest issues going! What determines whether a person in the 21st century is a believer or an unbeliever? It is an issue that is theologically and morally up for grabs as never before in church history.
We must ask and answer this question because the lines of demarcation between who is a believer and who is not a believer have become very hazy to say the least. That is because semi-believers are now considered to be full-fledged believers, even though they have many reservations, qualifications and exceptions concerning the Bible in their customized belief systems. Just as perverts today are writing their own perverted Bible so as to be able to call and pass themselves off as “Christian Believers.”
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By Bob Klingenberg
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008 17:35 |
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 I do not have the space to illustrate all of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. Just a few examples are in order. I hope and pray that you will find them as inspirational and helpful as I do. Biblical Christianity has, is and always will be made up of Divine truth and miracle. If you will, Christ through the supernatural healing of the Holy Spirit heals the body of man to convince the soul of man. That is how He builds His church. As He Himself said, "If you do not believe My words, than believe Me for My works sake."
1. THE GIFT OF FAITH! (I Corinthians 12:9)
There is nothing more natural for a man, even a religious man, than to have a spirit of fear and even fatalism when he sees an eminent danger, or when he has been diagnosed with a life-ending disease. He may believe in God, and yet find himself predominantly tied to his senses and therefore his fearful sense-apprehension of things overwhelms him.
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By Bob Klingenberg
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Monday, December 01, 2008 17:30 |
Allow me to preface this very important teaching by saying that not all tradition is bad.  Some traditions are Biblical and therefore very good. Tradition is a Biblical word that comes from the Greek paradosis which means handing down. There is so much paradosis in my church and family history that has been handed down which is very meaningful and dear.
I think right off the bat of the traditional hymns of the Christian Church which are so rich with solid Biblical theology, praise to God and comfort for the worshiper. The tragedy is that today, traditional hymnology is being discarded in favor of modern chorusology. A tragic and spiritually impoverishing loss! We must have both the old hymns and new choruses, not either or. "Modernity's Children" are so often characterized by having no sense of history. They therefore tend to carte blanche trifle with all tradition as completely outdated and expendable.
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By Whole Truth Help
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Saturday, November 01, 2008 18:41 |
 Pastor Ben Haden relates that Fannie Howell had been teaching college for 21 years in the Los Angeles area. She taught English. In a class of 100 college students Fannie Howell said, "I want you to take down the following words: 'It is Christmas Eve and fog holds to the tarmac at Lindberg Field (tarmac meaning the road, the surface, the runway).'"
Professor Howell then went on to say, "This is going to be a collaborative effort, I want every five of you, every five in this class, to pair off and to finish the story begun with the words I have just given to you."
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By Whole Truth Help
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Saturday, November 01, 2008 18:18 |
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6. THE MIRACLE GOD AND HUMAN MISERY  As the world’s population has mushroomed to well over 6 billion earthlings, the world’s suffering has grown proportionately. Plagues and famine are killing millions. We hear of earthquakes around the world that near and even exceed the 7.0 mark on the Richter scale. Tens of thousands lose their lives, with thousands more seriously injured.
We don’t know what all of that is like in America, at least not in my lifetime so far. Katrina was however a bitter taste of it! Around the world, horrible ongoing catastrophes, backward societies, no insurance, and not nearly enough hospitals, doctors or medicine!
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