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Pastor Claude T. Stauffer
How to Not Give Up
Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart, - Luke 18:1 My goodness, with all the confusion and injustices, all the deception and seeming double standards allowing the privileged to prosper, one could get down and depressed,...
Life is a Vapor
An Evangelistic Message James 4:13-14 - “Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor...
Attitude Determines Altitude
So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do.’” – Luke 17:10 Someone has said, “Attitude is everything.” If you have a good attitude, you are one step ahead...
Offensive Faith
Then He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no offenses should come, but woe to him through whom they do come! 2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should offend one of these...
America, Where Are You?
About 27% of the Bible is prophetic. But where is America in Bible prophecy? Where is America in the end? The word “nations” occurs 469 times in the Bible. The phrase “the nations” occurs 302 times. The word “America” is not found in the Bible. America where are you?...
Christians are to be Known by Their Love AND Truth
“By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” - John 13:35 Christians are to be known by their love. But the nature of that love should not be interpreted to exclude truth. Love minus truth is not love but merely the soft...
Prodigal Father or Prodigal’s Father?
Luke 15:11–32 (NKJV) 11 Then He said: “A certain man had two sons. 12 And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood. 13 And not many days after, the younger son gathered all...
The Code of Discipleship – What it Means to Follow Jesus
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.” – Luke 14:26 At the end of Luke 14, Jesus speaks of what it means to follow Him. Earlier in the chapter,...
Courage
“Wait on the LORD; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; wait, I say, on the LORD!” - Psalm 27:14 I have been alive three score and five, and lately, I have heard a lot of people talking, (even seems a bit like boasting), about “courage.” I have...
Grace to Face Giants
When the Philistines were at war again with Israel, David and his servants with him went down and fought against the Philistines; and David grew faint. – 2 Samuel 21:15 Are you worried about something big in your life? Do you feel like a big fearsome giant is...