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Joe Durso
Mar 15, 20202 min read
STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART
To all the soft-hearted people reading this post, have you ever cried watching a movie? Is it hard for your feelings to get engaged when...
Joe Durso
Feb 23, 20203 min read
AT THE HEART OF WORSHIP
What is at the heart of worship? At the heart of worship is the saving faith of repentant sinners. To sing of God's glory from a pure...
Joe Durso
Feb 17, 20205 min read
THE COST OF LIVING WITHOUT LOVE
If I were to ask you, do you love Jesus, what would you say? On what are you basing your answer? Revelation two and three is the standard...
Joe Durso
Feb 7, 20203 min read
O Absalom, my son, my son!
There is nothing more complicated in all of God's creation than the heart of a man. In the passage before us, a messenger brought good...
Joe Durso
Jan 18, 20203 min read
HERE I AM. SEND ME!
It was after twenty years of service and never having disappointed my employer when I heard the telephone ring. "I need you right now,...
Joe Durso
Jan 12, 20204 min read
A WALK IN NEWNESS OF LIFE
My dear readers, do you ever feel as though you are not the best version of yourself? Do you ever think that you let people down, people...
Joe Durso
Jan 4, 20204 min read
IXNAY ON THE COMPETITIVE SPIRIT
The Church is no place for Competition "And there arose also a dispute among them as to which one of them was regarded to be greatest....
Joe Durso
Jan 3, 20203 min read
THE GODLY MANDATE: AVOID A DECEPTIVE HEART
KILL THE PROUD THOUGHT IN YOUR MIND Do not say in your heart when the LORD your God has driven them out before you, 'Because of my...
Joe Durso
Dec 29, 20194 min read
SAMSON: ABUNDANT IN MINISTRY NOT SO MUCH IN LIFE
"For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord...
Joe Durso
Dec 21, 20193 min read
HOW TO OBTAIN CHRISTIAN VIRTUE
How do I forgive this person that has hurt me so deeply? How do I engage with my wife when she seems so disrespectful? How do I love my...
Joe Durso
Dec 21, 20192 min read
DISCOVERING A HOLY MEANS OF GRACE PART 2
“Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours…” (2 Peter 1:1) The...
Joe Durso
Dec 15, 20193 min read
DISCOVERING A HOLY MEANS OF GRACE
The Christian is a person who, according to Romans 10:9, confesses Jesus Christ as Lord and believes in his heart that God raised Him...
Joe Durso
Nov 30, 20192 min read
HOW TO BALANCE THEOLOGY AND PRACTICE
It is all too easy to trust men out of a fear of displeasing them while disrespecting what God has said in His Word, the Bible.
Joe Durso
Nov 25, 20192 min read
THE PRIORITY OF LIFE
Our priorities testify to our values, worth, importance, and reason for existence. The person who spends all his energy, time, resources,...
Joe Durso
Nov 21, 20194 min read
FAITH WORKS
There should be little doubt that we are now living during a “How to” generation. There are titles from “fill in the blank “for Idiots”...
Joe Durso
Nov 21, 20192 min read
DISCIPLING WITH GOOD RESULT
And on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea...
Joe Durso
Nov 9, 20193 min read
A FINE LINE OR INFINITELY WIDE?
Dear reader, at some time in your life, you probably heard that all people in the world are the children of God. Biblically, the man was...
Joe Durso
Nov 9, 20192 min read
A BIG VERSE for anyone who needs forgiveness
My dear readers, a 747 is a big plane and Luke 7:47 is a big verse. When Jesus accepted the invitation to the home of a Pharisee, He did...
Joe Durso
Oct 18, 20193 min read
WHAT IS A GOOD DISCIPLE OF JESUS CHRIST?
I would imagine that most Christians understand a disciple to be a follower of Christ. That is true, but let us look a little closer at...
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