Remember video stores? Before streaming was invented you had to physically go to a video store and rent a movie, checking it out from the store. You drive home and pop it in to the video cassette recorder machine hulking on top of your console tv to view whatever movie you'd rented. Then reverse the process to return it the next day. Back in the 1990s at the video store on a busy Friday night, I was looking for a movie adapted from an Oscar Wilde play called An Ideal Husband. I couldn't find it, so I went to the gal at the checkout so she could peek at her catalog to see if it was lent out.

I'd asked, "Do you have An Ideal Husband?"

Without missing a beat, she said, "No, but if I did I wouldn't lend him out!"

Listen in for more!

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2022/01/14/he-listened-to-his-wife/

The End Time is entering its 14th straight year of writing every day about Jesus. Praise the Lord for sustaining this ministry! In this episode I share some tweaks to my personal routine and praise the Lord for His wonderful works in the world, namely and more important, giving us, horrible sinners, eternal life!

Yesterday I posted an article about the fact that hell exists, why it exists, and why people go there (and how to avoid it). Here-> Betty White talks about her own death with Larry King. I was asked about how to handle knowing a loved one is very likely in hell enduring eternal torment. It’s a troubling question, an important concept to dig though – if tough on the heart and mind.

Betty White talks about her own death with Larry King

Further Resources

Essay GotQuestions: How can heaven be perfect if all of our loved ones are not there?

Essay GotQuestions: Will we be able to see and know our friends and family members in Heaven?

Video clip 8-min (Sproul): How can I be happy in heaven when I know loved ones are in hell?

Essay Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspective Ministries: How Will I Be Able to Enjoy Heaven If My Loved Ones Are in Hell?

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2022/01/07/how-can-we-deal-with-knowing-someone-we-love-is-probably-in-hell/

Being filled with the Spirit also means we can have 'full assurance'. Looking at a set of verses from 1 Thessalonians 1:1-5 today

What does it mean to be ‘filled with the Spirit’?

How Can I be Filled with the Holy Spirit?

The Doctrine of Conviction

Assurance

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2022/01/04/do-you-have-full-conviction/

For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires, 2 Timothy 4:3.

Notice the catalyst for the heaping up of false teachers: it's the 'professing' Christian...

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2022/01/03/this-is-the-truth-of-how-it-works-with-false-teachers/

Yesterday I posted a critique of Beth Moore’s Instagram tutorial on prayer. There was some that was good in it and much that was concerning. That critique is here. Today I’m posting information I’ve learned from a course I’m taking at The Master’s Seminary track called Institute for Church Leadership called The Practice of Prayer. The class is so rich with biblical concepts, practical guidelines, and is so highly exalting of Jesus that I wanted to share some of what I am learning. I’m 50% finished with the class so there is more to go, but of what I’ve learned so far, it’s tremendous.

Ten Reasons We Should pray Scripture to God

EM Bounds is known for his classics on prayer. Here is one that happens to be online. E.M. Bounds on Prayer

Simplify your Spiritual Life: Spiritual Disciplines for the Overwhelmed, book, Don Whitney

Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers, book, compiled by Arthur Bennett, Editor. Also online: here

Tim Challies’ chart in visual theology, 25 Attributes of God. You can include acknowledgement of these attributes day by day in your prayers as part of your adoration.

The Hidden Life of Prayer, David McIntyre, book available at Amazon etc., but also online for free.

The Doctrine of Repentance, Thomas Watson. A Puritan Paperback.

A Method for Prayer, Matthew Henry, online here updated in modern language, also available as a book to buy.

Susan Heck video tutorial, James Lesson 23 – Becoming a Woman of Prayer – James 5:13-18.

How to Pray, John MacArthur sermon.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://the-end-time.org/2022/01/01/prayer-what-is-it-how-do-we-do-it-a-tutorial/