For those in Christ, we KNOW who to thank for all our blessings. For those outside of Christ, they grope for words, feeling grateful, but now knowing who to thank.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2022/06/18/we-dont-need-to-grope-for-words-when-we-thank-the-lord/

Do we have to go to church? Should we be members? Faithful attenders? Where is that in the Bible, anyway? Here are some reasons we should be faithful attendees and members of a local body.

For the Gospel video Serving in the Local Church

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2022/06/17/we-are-saved-to-serve-the-church/

My one and only comment on the doings this week at the Southern Baptist Convention: is women preaching a secondary issue? Is the denomination in decline? What exactly is going on?

Further Reading

Further Reading eave the SBC? Wretched Radio video

Rick Warren, Women Pastors, and Secondary Issues, by Chris Hohnholz

Cast your burden on the Lord by Jennifer Buck

Saddleback Female Pastors Debate Raises Bigger Questions for the SBC by Kate Shellnutt

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2022/06/16/is-it-time-to-leave-the-southern-baptist-convention-and-whats-a-secondary-issue/

The Uselessness of Anxiety

The chapter can be read in its entirety here. Or the whole book here.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2022/06/15/the-uselessness-of-anxiety/

Are you going through an anxious time? This excerpt from a chapter in an old timey book from 1891 by Newman Hall may help. He makes 6 points in his attempt to provide comfort through the scriptures, I cover the first two points today. The book is Anxiety: Solace from the Garden of Gethsemane

Links 

His famous tract Come to Jesus can be found at Chapel Library and read for free.

The chapter I excerpt today can be read in its entirety here.

Or the whole book here. 

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2022/06/14/anxiety-solace-from-the-garden-of-gethsemane/

Job lost everything but did not sin with his lips. Naomi lost everything and accused God several times. How do we respond when things don't go our way?

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2022/06/13/job-vs-naomi-how-do-we-respond-when-circumstances-take-a-downturn/

What are the birth pangs? Are we in the end time? What is the 'wrath of abandonment'? Today I take a look at these issues. They are troubling to be sure, so for the next few days I'll post excerpts from a helpful essay on Anxiety. Though hard things are coming upon us now, if we are in Christ, all things are happening for our good to those who love Him. We live in peace, even though circumstances may be turbulent around us.

John MacArthur sermon When God Abandons a Nation

Christina R. Fox article at TableTalk Magazine Afflicted for our Good

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2022/06/11/are-the-birth-pangs-happening-now/

You don't have to have a seminary education, you don't have to be glib and articulate, you don't even have to know exactly what to say, just share about Jesus. Here are three examples of people of humble circumstances who did their best -  and look where God took their words!

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2022/06/10/the-lord-took-the-lowest-of-the-low-and-turned-their-words-into-the-highest-of-the-high-3-conversion-stories/

Mediating on how satan tries to thwart our contemplations of beauty, and the originator of it, by making us utilitarian robots with no time to meditate on the aesthetics of the world.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2022/06/09/consider-beauty/

The infinite beauty of fractals, awe-inspiringly described by Christian scientist Jason Lisle, blew me away. He explains it so well, you will be floored by the symmetry beauty, and orderliness of God's creation!

Dr. Jason Lisle info (Source)

Lisle's video on fractals. Don't miss it!

Mesmerizing creatures: beautiful sea angels

Mercury's tail

Smithsonian magazine 2017: Fractal Patterns in Nature and Art Are Aesthetically Pleasing and Stress-Reducing

Answers in Genesis: Beauty, the Undeniable Witness

Sproul: “What happened to beauty?“

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2022/06/08/our-incredible-god-the-incredible-creator/