Browsing Archive: July, 2015

Preparing To Die

Posted by Michael La Framboise on Sunday, July 26, 2015,
“Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.” Luke 9:23

  Dying is no easy thing. And dying to ourselves and to our own will may even be harder than physical death itself. When my grandpa died, it was sudden and unexpected, and he was not given any warning, let alone a choice in the matter. The writer of Hebrews declares plainly that “it is appointed for men to die,” and this death is without negotia...

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The Dead Days Are Coming!

Posted by Michael La Framboise on Sunday, July 26, 2015,
“And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins.” Ephesians 2:1

  Preaching from his pulpit one Sunday, Pastor Jerry Osborne exclaimed: “Listen, ‘He only lives who lives to God, and all are dead beside;' and that is the true explanation of sin not felt, and sermons not believed, and good advice not followed, and the gospel not embraced, and the world not forsaken, and the cross not taken up, and evil habits not laid aside, and the Bible seldom read, and the knee never bent...

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