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This is a guess post, by a special brother of mine, Adrian Bateman. He is an excellent teacher of the word and is a Super Moderator of Rapture Forums . Adrian and his lovely wife Andrea are members of First Baptist Church, Springfield Il. No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. —Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick ​ Discipline is a topic we do not like to talk about. The act of discipline itself is unpleasant and usually painful. It was when we were children in our parents’ home. It is as children of the Lord. But, unlike our parents, God’s purposes are never punitive : they are always corrective . In order to understand God’s hand in our lives and to better be able to cooperate with Him

As revealed by Todd Starnes and as foretold in The Sifted Generation , Kentucky Prison chaplains have been ordered to quit telling the truth, according to God's word, that homosexuality is sin. According to the report on Fox News : ******** "It wasn’t so much a choice as it was a demand. Chaplain David Wells was told he could either sign a state-mandated document promising to never tell inmates that homosexuality is “sinful” or else the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice would revoke his credentials. “We could not sign that paper,” Chaplain Wells told me in a telephone call from his home in Kentucky. “It broke my heart.” The Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice revoked his volunteer credentials as an ordained minis

It is no secret that Planned Parenthood has been carrying out vicious acts against the innocent born and unborn in their clinics. The recent appalling videos, and more to come, are proof positive of their mortifying actions--regardless of the spin the leadership of PP is pushing. On Aug. 5th, Janet Parshall interviewed Abby Brannam-Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood director, during hour 2 of her show, In The Market . You can listen to it here: Planned Parenthood Abby holds nothing back. She tells the world exactly what is told to the women who come into the clinic and even speaks of the incentives offered to PP employees for getting more abortions for their baby limb and organ peddling operations. To add to the outrage, even a select group of clergy members on the Planned Parenthood Clergy Advocacy Board give there kudos to the ongoing work of the clinics calling it God's work!! It is literally a work of the Enemy! Mark Dooley from The Institution on Religi

New Book Seeks to Reveal God’s Purpose in Allowing Christian Persecution With today’s culture pushing against the lifestyle of Christians many church-goers may soon find out what Jesus really meant when He said, "A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you," (John 15:20b). BriefingWire.com , - Springfield, Il. The Sifted Generation, Tested, Tried, and Found True is the new title that First Baptist Church Pastor & Author, Michael L. Henderson, has chosen in his endeavor to bring before the world a much needed explanation behind the tide of anti-christian sentiment sweeping across America and the world. Henderson points out,"that today's culture is becoming antagonistic toward biblical Christianity in ways that most Christians would have never imagined in their lifetime. We have gone from a godly nation that, for the most part, resp