http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/ Lessons to Fortify Your Faith Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:06:40 GMT JohnW http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/348 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/348 THEOBABBLE, THE LANGUAGE OF ASHDOD Those who are agitating for change in the faith, worship and practice of the church have mastered the "language of Ashdod." Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:12:22 GMT JohnW http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/347 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/347 WHAT PREACHERS ARE AND ARE NOT Confusion reigns in the religious world about most things relating to Christianity. At the top of the list is confusion about Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:17:51 GMT JohnW http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/346 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/346 RITUALISM Mankind has always found it easier to offer ritualistic worship to God instead of living a godly, consecrated life. Ritual is defined in the positive Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:53:40 GMT JohnW http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/345 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/345 THAT SILLY FIVE-FINGER EXERCISE Now you may never have heard of the "Five-Finger Exercise," but that is only because you have not heard or read the message of Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:08:37 GMT JohnW http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/344 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/344 THE BIBLE MUST BE RIGHTLY DIVIDED "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth" (II Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:38:58 GMT JohnW http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/343 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/343 THOSE WITH EYES SEE WHAT THE BLIND CANNOT SEE Chuck Smith, leader of the Calvary Chapel denomination, called on all of his pastors who are participating in the Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:30:16 GMT JohnW http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/342 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/342 BOOKS THAT WILL ENRICH YOUR TEACHING AND WRITING In other articles I have recommended valuable religious books that ministers need to have in their library and Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:41:55 GMT JohnW http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/341 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/341 THE SOCIABLE JESUS To be a Christian is to be like Jesus, to follow his example in our daily life (I Pet. 2:21). One aspect of the life of our Lord which we Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:29:36 GMT JohnW http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/340 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/340 LIKE A BAD DREAM COME TRUE Across America and around the world, some members of the Church of Christ have awakened to discover that their congregations have Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:30:17 GMT JohnW http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/339 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/339 LORDS AND SYCOPHANTS Some preachers are not content to preach the word, to reprove, rebuke and exhort (II Tim. 4:2). They feel constrained to enforce the law Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:09:34 GMT JohnW http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/338 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/338 INGREDIENTS OF CHRISTIANITY If a man from India or China should say to you, "Tell me about your religion," how would you respond? Below are the key ingredients Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:28:25 GMT JohnW http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/337 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/337 GEORGE WASHINGTON'S ADVICE TO PREACHERS Well, it wasn't exactly spoken to preachers. These are some guideline for successful human relationships that Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:03:31 GMT JohnW http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/336 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/336 IS THERE ANYTHING IN A NAME? Does it matter what we call ourselves religiously? Do you say, "There is nothing in a name?" If so, it is true only in religion. Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:52:02 GMT JohnW http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/335 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/335 BLINDNESS For many years I worked with students who were visually impaired. Some were totally blind. A blind man cannot see his mother's or his wife's face. He Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:34:48 GMT JohnW http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/334 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fortify_your_faith/message/334 J. W. McGARVEY ON MINISTERIAL EDUCATION In April of 1885 John McGarvey wrote an essay for Lard's Quarterly on the subject of Ministerial Education. Bro