by Don Wiley | Mar 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
One of the best known, most often quoted scriptures in the entire Bible is Ephesians 2:8-9, “For by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.” Now, on the face of it, taken alone and...
by Don Wiley | Mar 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
“It is impossible but that offenses will come.” Jesus said that. Do you know why He said that? Because he had just said, “If they (religious types who claim the Bible is their authority for their beliefs) hear not Moses and the...
by Don Wiley | Mar 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
The apostles had no idea over twenty centuries would pass (and maybe even more) before the Lord would return. Early on, they thought the Lord’s return was imminent. And they thought that due to the intense persecution brought against the Christians by both Jews...
by Don Wiley | Mar 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
(The following article was first written Sept. 27, 2016 when Barack Obama still occupied the White House). Even the sins of a nation have a payday someday. Our chickens are coming home to roost. The Bible speaks of God withholding judgment on a nation because their...
by Don Wiley | Mar 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
“And He said, ‘That which comes out of the man, that defiles the man, for from within out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy,...
by Don Wiley | Mar 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
John Calvin, author of the book Institutes of the Christian Religion, and on whose teachings the Presbyterian Church was built upon, taught that God pre-ordained certain humans to be saved, leaving all others – billions and billions – to live and die cut...
by Don Wiley | Mar 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
Some seem to get bent all out of shape if they even think someone would believe God would give some humans a second chance at being redeemed and granted eternal life. “The Babylonians and Apaches already had their chance and blew it,” they argue. Most who...
by Don Wiley | Mar 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
One last note before retiring. I was such a great sinner for so long only divine intervention can even begin to explain what I am today – an honest man who works tirelessly six days a week at the most menial tasks (first posted Friday, May 11, 2018 when I was...
by Don Wiley | Mar 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
There are two chapters in the Book of Revelation I believe Jesus Christ would have all believers to read and understand – chapters two and three. In these two chapters Jesus addresses Himself to seven different congregations situated in Asia Minor (modern day...
by Don Wiley | Mar 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
“I never met a man I didn’t like!” Will Rogers said that. Well, God never created a human being He didn’t love. “For God so loved THE WORLD that He gave His only begotten Son….” How tragic it is that Satan has foisted off...