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Joe Durso
May 29, 20163 min read
SUMMING UP THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
If you could sum up what it means to be a Christian could you do it in a few words? For some Christianity is an add on to their busy,...
Joe Durso
May 12, 20165 min read
ARE YOU PROPERLY OLD FASHIONED?
“For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you know how to possess...
Joe Durso
Apr 30, 20165 min read
WORSHIP THAT IS PLEASING TO GOD
“Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. ...
Joe Durso
Apr 23, 20164 min read
HELL IS MORE THAN A SWEAR WORD
Is there a topic avoided more than hell? For more than a couple of generations people have been dumbing down the idea of hell in lieu...
Joe Durso
Apr 16, 20164 min read
GOD’S WORD IS TRUTH
There is a very telling line at the very end of the book of Judges, which says, “In those days there was no king in Israel, every man did...
Joe Durso
Apr 9, 20167 min read
GOD’S VOICE THEN AND NOW
If I ask some of my readers, did you speak to God lately, they will not have a problem because they will understand me to ask them if...
Joe Durso
Apr 1, 20167 min read
THE SPIRIT FILLED LIFE
There are people on both ends of the Holy Spirit debate. Some believe that a born again Christian receives the fullness of the Spirit...
Joe Durso
Mar 19, 20163 min read
THE TRANSCENDENT CHRISTIAN LIFE
There is many a man that considers himself to be a Christian but when he stands before the Lord in judgment will find out the truth that...
Joe Durso
Mar 12, 20164 min read
ROTE OR REVIVAL
There is nothing more important in life than to talk to God. God is the source of life because He is life, truth, and everything that is...
Joe Durso
Feb 15, 20164 min read
WAR ROOM
The movie WAR ROOM properly sets the stage for the greatest war of every age, which is not among men but between the people of God and...
Joe Durso
Feb 12, 20161 min read
BOOK BOUND
If you are following this blog I want you to know I have not stopped writing, I am just on overload to get my book ready for publication....
Joe Durso
Feb 7, 20165 min read
A GROUNDHOG DAY ALLEGORY
The Hollywood movie Groundhog Day is an excellent allegory of repentance, faith, and a transformation of character in the Christian...
Joe Durso
Jan 25, 20164 min read
THE IMPORTANCE OF RELATIONSHIPS
We have all heard such thoughts as, it’s a dog eat dog world, if you don’t look out for yourself no one else will, and the climb to the...
Joe Durso
Jan 22, 20164 min read
THE GREATEST WEAPON TO BATTLE SIN
“What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands,...
Joe Durso
Jan 10, 20164 min read
WHY ASSURANCE OF SALVATION IS IMPORTANT
“These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.” 1 John...
Joe Durso
Jan 7, 20161 min read
7 ELEMENTS TO PROMOTE HEARTFELT WORSHIP
Thank you for liking my blog on worship. Just the concern for worship is encouraging to me. Godly Increase Worship depends upon the...
Joe Durso
Jan 3, 20166 min read
7 ELEMENTS TO PROMOTE HEARTFELT WORSHIP
Worship depends upon the state of a person’s heart before God, and since no one can know with absolute certainty the condition of another...
Joe Durso
Dec 20, 20154 min read
THE REASON FOR THE SEASON
What is the reason for the Christmas season? Christmas began with a gift that was given two thousand years ago, in the little town of...
Joe Durso
Dec 18, 20152 min read
CHRISTMAS REVIVAL
New Testament revival is not first and foremost collective but individualistic, it takes place primarily in the heart of one person by a...
Joe Durso
Nov 22, 20153 min read
BROKENNESS, THE BEGINNING OF REVIVAL
This is the second in a series of blogs that are meant to look at the subject of Christian revival. Normally the word revival conjures...
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