Amen! Dorine and brother Beacon!

Let the repentance of the sinner be accepted by the church with grateful hearts. Let the repenting one be led out from the darkness of unbelief into the light of faith and righteousness. Let his trembling hand be placed in the loving hand of Jesus. Such a remission is ratified in heaven.
     Only in this sense has the church power to absolve the sinner. Remission of sins can be obtained only through the merits of Christ. To no man, to no body of men, is given power to free the soul from guilt. Christ charged His disciples to preach the remission of sins in His name among all nations; but they themselves were not empowered to remove one stain of sin. The name of Jesus is the only "name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." Acts 4:12.

What if someone has repeatedly made public profession of coming back to Christ, only to fail again and again? I remember a long while back there was someone like this and once again he studied with the new pastor and was rebaptized. I remember people talking and saying that like before this won't last. But let me tell you this person has long been an active faithful member since then. Makes me think of Mary who Christ cast devils out 7 different times. I'm guessing people would have said similar things about her but what a loving disciple she turned out to be. Let us be careful and patient when dealing with people who have failed in the past.

A cold winter night is an excellent time to listen to this wonderful book. Another good time to listen is on your commute to work. This can be accomplished a couple of ways.

One is to download the mp3 files from here... https://librivox.org/author/12414
Then use a mp3 app like Smart Audiobook Player

Or you could simply use Librivox's own app which can be found here... LibriVox Audio Books.
Then search for and play the book.

I apologize to you iOS users as I'm sure this is easily enough done but I don't have enough experience with Apple products to recommend apps. Possibly this... https://apps.apple.com/us/app/librivox-audio-books/id596159212

   Faith/Trust is the key to unlock the storehouse 🗝️


           

Amen, Brother Beacon, Brother Jim and Brother Richard!

The love of Jesus woos us and elevates to new heights and depths of character experience in true conversion manifest in all of the fruits of the Spirit without one missing that can only be understood by faith! When the disciples grasped who Jesus was as their traveling Companion, their souls could not contain the gladness! So they had to tell others! So let us tell others, too!!

"But with this great news to communicate they cannot sit and talk. Their weariness and hunger are gone. They leave their meal untasted, and full of joy immediately set out again on the same path by which they came, hurrying to tell the tidings to the disciples in the city. In some parts the road is not safe, but they climb over the steep places, slipping on the smooth rocks. They do not see, they do not know, that they have the protection of Him who has traveled the road with them. With their pilgrim staff in hand, they press on, desiring to go faster than they dare. They lose their track, but find it again. Sometimes running, sometimes stumbling, they press forward, their unseen Companion close beside them all the way." {The Desire of Ages, page 801, paragraph 2}   

Jesus is helping us to share with everyone we meet of His loveliness of character! We are God's beloved children and each of us can know Jesus so personally that His plan for our lives will happen! Will you walk the path of life fully trusting Him? It's amazing!!

The miracles of Christ are a proof of His divinity; but a stronger proof that He is the world's Redeemer is found in comparing the prophecies of the Old Testament with the history of the New.

What a statement! Again and again we are pointed to the Bible for the foundation of our salvation. Imagine, you by the study of your Bible and letting the Bible explain itself are experiencing something greater than witnessing one of Christ's miracles! No wonder our loving Savior guarded the Bible through the ages to make sure that people could read it. No wonder He rose up such men as Wycliffe and Tyndale to make sure that the common people could read the Bible.