The word revival may be in disrepute since cheaters apply revival to their pompous nonsense and psychological trickery. They rip revival away from clear Bible teaching of Jesus’ valuable gift and from sincere and serious urging to entrust selves to Jesus. Nothing so revives persons, households, families, neighborhoods and workplaces like a revival assuring them of sins’ hell destiny and of being saved by Lord Jesus. It shrivels ignorance about Jesus and heartless apathy. It drains away floods of godless evil and ethnic prejudices. It gives purpose for actively fruitful living. So many many Boiseans need revival. Nothing so revives former Christians and Jesus’ church fervor […]

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Psalm 139:1-6 is a section of scripture that focuses on helping us to see and stand in awe of the great and complex nature of God. Within these six verses, we see just how powerful God is. He knows our very thoughts and is guiding us through this life. God’s vast ability to fully know and understand each and every person on this planet is mindboggling. He knows just how we think, just how we act, and just how we are feeling. What an amazing God we serve who in spite of all our imperfections He still chooses to have […]

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I once bought a bag full of repair supplies and tools along with a large piece of plywood. It was hard to carry it all, so I set aside the plywood, took the supplies on ahead and came back or the unguarded plywood. Someone had taken it:( My eyes filled with tears. You may know someone who lost a bicycle or a purse in a similar way. Our most precious items are even easier to lose because they are less concrete treasures like joy, peace, a friendship and God’s everlasting purpose. These treasures get lost in the rushes of our […]

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Culturally rejected, evil upbringing, poorly trained, personality disorder, learning disability, genetic defect and physical injury are all big troubles — for this world. Still, one big truth that our heavenly Father brings across over and over throughout the Bible is that none of these have to get in the way of Jesus bearing much good fruit through a person! None! Each of those troubles has proven for many victims to be the very springboards of the good that comes out of them through Jesus. Indeed, such troubles have not kept them from have a good influence on many people. For […]

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A mayor had handsome sons. They may have defended needed crops so raiders killed them. But the youngest, Gideon, maybe hid in fear praying! He was left with the gore of burying brothers’ remains, the guilt of not dying like them and the grind of fixing food in a hideout to survive. In response to prayers: The angel of the Lord said to him, “The Lord is with you, O valiant warrior.”  Those words drew out Gideon’s bitterness: The Lord has abandoned us. The Lord said: “Have I not sent you?”  Again Gideon vented: “My family is the least, and […]

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Since we missed you worshiping Jesus with us on Sunday and growing in His Word and in church family fellowship, I’m sending you this bit of encouragement along with the Bible message in print and the June 4th bulletin : Psalm 46 says Yahweh God who saves (Jesus) is a very present help in trouble. He calls each of us personally to far deeper growth than just knowing stuff. He says: Be still (or stop wrestling) and know that I am God! It doesn’t matter whether you are troubled by life-threatening illness, too much month at the end of the […]

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Yep, next Sunday, June 4th, marks the 1,987th birthday of Jesus’ church 🙂 On that first day 1000s of devout men from every nation under heaven each heard Jesus’ apostles proclaim God’s good in Jesus in their own languages: “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit” and that day about three thousand of them did (Acts 2:5-8, 38, 41) 🙂 Luke some 30+ years later wrote of them: They were continually devoting themselves to… (1) the breaking of […]

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To pray is God’s BIG work for you and me! You may download this sermon link below. Learn to pray

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Schools are letting out for summer breaks. Families are planning vacation trips. Just suppose your trip energizes your family instead of wearing them out. Suppose it enriches them instead of running up debt that takes a year to pay off. Suppose it enhances the family instead of dividing it. 1000+years before Jesus, El-kanah each year took his family on a God-centered trip (1 Samuel 1:3-5). The end result turned his nation upward. As boy Jesus grew, His parents did the same (Luke 2:41). You can too! Here’s a few ideas: Take along Bibles for brief, mealtime reading. Encourage Jesus-centered words […]

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