Gleanings From Grace

TEXT:Proverbs 14:34

INTRODUCTION: “I was born on July 4, 1776, and the Declaration of Independence is my birth certificate. The bloodlines of the world run in my veins, because I offered freedom to the oppressed. I am the 180 million living souls, and the ghosts of millions who have lived and died for me. I am Nathan Hale, and Paul Revere. I stood at Lexington and fired the shot heard around the world. . I am Washington, Jefferson and Patrick Henry. (more…)

TEXT:1 Samuel 17:12-40

INTRODUCTION: You could be sitting next to a hero and not even know it. I know that person in the pew beside you hasn’t done anything heroic; but they could, given the opportunity. That’s one of the strange thing about heroes - usually they are as surprised as everyone else is at their display of courage. (more…)

TEXT:(2 Tim 2:3 KJV) Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. (2 Tim 2:4 KJV) No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

1.GOOD SOLDIERS ARE EXPECTED TO FIGHT.
(1 Tim 6:12 KJV) Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
(I Corinthians 9:26) SO FIGHT I
(II Timothy 4:7)”I have FOUGHT a good FIGHT…” (more…)