The Name!

What book are you reading right now?
The Name: by Franklin Graham

Blasting The Name!

“Christianity is a religion for losers,” said one famous American billionaire.

“Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers,” said a famous politician. It makes no sense! What drives two such otherwise intelligent, motivated, and successful men to publicly slam the followers of the greatest Name in history?

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Called to Be Holy
Saturday, November 18 | 1 Corinthians 1:1–9
On the Go? Listen Now!

Is this person “the one”? Should I pursue this job or that one? Is now the time to move or invest or retire? Whenever we are confused or concerned about more specific questions of calling, God’s general call anchors us.

When we don’t know what to do, we ask God for wisdom, walk in faith, and pursue what He asks of all His followers all the time. While we may not even know how to pray, the Spirit utters groanings (Rom. 8:26).

In today’s passage, Paul introduced himself to the church at Corinth—one of the largest cities in the Roman Empire, strategically located on a major trade route. Paul had spent many months in Corinth during his second missionary journey, establishing this church. Corinth, however, was also full of sin: immorality, idolatry, greed.

Three years later, Paul learned that the Corinthian church was struggling. He begins his letter by reasserting his own credibility: “Paul, called [kletos] to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God” (v. 1). God had given Paul this position and bestowed on him the authority to speak on His behalf.

He reminded the Corinthians of God’s call on them to be “holy” (v. 2). They were to be set apart and pure. This expectation was not unique to them! Paul explained that it was for “all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” (v. 2).

Ancient letters typically included a word of thanks after the greeting, and Paul follows that convention (vv. 4–9). Despite the corruptness in Corinth, Paul expressed gratitude for God’s grace to them—in the form of teaching and spiritual gifts. Paul’s hope was in God who is faithful, and who had called (kaleo) the Corinthian church into fellowship with Christ.

>> When we are confused about a difficult decision, we can be anchored by our faith in Christ and God’s call for us to be “holy” (v. 2). How does Paul’s challenge for believers to be set apart for God’s purpose affect your choices?


Pray with Us
Father, from sinful temptations to worldly pressures, the Enemy has many tactics to distract and misdirect us. Help us pursue You with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our strength (Deut. 6:5).

Only God Knows!

God Loves Everyone

What’s the biggest risk you’d like to take — but haven’t been able to?

Here are some Bible verses about God’s gifts:
1 Corinthians 12:4-6: There are different gifts, but the same Spirit.
James 1:17: Every gift is from God.
1 Peter 4:10-11: Use your gifts to serve others.
John 14:26: The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are wisdom, understanding, counsel, knowledge, fortitude, piety, and fear of the Lord.
John 3:16: God gave his only begotten Son so that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
1 Corinthians 12:8-10: Paul lists the following spiritual gifts: word of wisdom, word of knowledge, faith, gifts of healing, working of miracles, prophecy, distinguishing spirits, various kinds of tongues, and interpretation of tongues.
Other Bible verses about God’s gifts include:
Ephesians 1:3-4
1 Corinthians 12:7-11
1 Corinthians 4:7
Ephesians 2:8
Romans 9:16
1 Corinthians 2:12

Corinthians 9:15

Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

1 Peter 4:10

As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

Romans 11:29

for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Romans 12:6

Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly: if prophecy, according to the proportion of his faith;

1 Corinthians 12:4
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.

Ephesians 2:8
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

Timothy 1:6

For this reason I remind you to kindle afresh the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

Ephesians 4:7

But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift.

1 Corinthians 12:7

But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who regards you as superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

James 1:17

Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.

1 Timothy 4:14

Do not neglect the spiritual gift within you, which was bestowed on you through prophetic utterance with the laying on of hands by the presbytery.

John 4:10

Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

1 Peter 4:11

Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

1 Corinthians 12:28

And God has appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, various kinds of tongues.

Ephesians 3:7

of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of God’s grace which was given to me according to the working of His power.

Real Stories From Veterans From Our American Armed Forces!

Except for the 92 patriots who voted against the McCarthy House sell-out deal, our Congress has completely betrayed us all.

Listen up! September 30th happens every year at the very same time. It doesn’t sneak up on Congress! Speaker McCarthy had since January to properly and responsibly fund our government. By intention McCarthy refused to keep the House working so he could rob us at the last minute. They want you being a rat running in a debt wheel until you die and they have taken everything you thought you owned. They keep spending on your credit card and every year you must pay more taxes just to pay the interest but never ever pay off a penny of the actual growing debt they are piling on your grave.

That leads to the second part. To control you and your children more and more every day they pass bills to take your resources—your life—and send it to crooked politicians, crooked government, crooked industry oligarchs making weapons on your tab to fight wars they never intend to win and get more and more people killed. By continuing to take all that you own by legislative theft they drain your freedom and increase their eventual complete control of you and your heirs.

Congratulations! As long as you keep the crooks in office you get what you deserve. And then the end comes. The commies think they win; but they don’t.

God’s judgment is on the way.

Captain MARK MORRIS
United States Army, Soon Retired
October 2, 2023