Showing posts with label Preaching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Preaching. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

A Word For Wednesday, Condemned Or Completely Cleansed?

We are happy to bring you Word For Wednesday. A few moments ago I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel. Please watch and leave us a comment here or on YouTube.


We live in condemnation and fear because of our sin. We can not escape detection. We can not hide.

Luke 8:17 For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither [any thing] hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.

We can live in that condemnation or we can live in freedom. We can be forgiven, set free and completely cleansed through Christ.

I John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

This story vividly demonstrates that nothing can be hidden forever!
Do You Know This Nail?
Clarence McCartney, The Wisest Fool, Page 39
 

Thank God for the cleansing power in the blood of Jesus! 

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

A Word For Wednesday, Doing Your Duty Makes A Difference

We are happy to bring you Word For Wednesday. A few moments ago I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel. Please watch and leave us a comment here or on YouTube.

There are times we do things because it is our duty. But doing your duty can make a huge difference in someone's life! Step up to your duty and do it faithfully. You may never know the full effect on the lives of others.

Thank you for watching.

Davy

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

A Word For Wednesday, A Sermon From An Atheist (An Atheist I Agree With)

We are happy to bring you Word For Wednesday. A few moments ago I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel. Please watch and leave us a comment here or on YouTube.


Today I offer you a soul-winning sermon inspired by an atheist. He says among other things,

"How Much do you have to hate somebody to believe everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?"
Wow! That is a statement from an atheist I can wholeheartedly agree with. Sounds like a Christian with a genuine concern for lost souls.

As a favor to me, please share this with others. Thank you.

Davy

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

A Word For Wednesday, Commitment And Dedication, Boggs Family Ministries


We are happy to bring you Word For Wednesday. A few moments ago I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel. Please watch and leave us a comment here or on YouTube.


Anything worth doing is worth making a commitment and having the determination to see the thing through. I am thankful that men were determined to risk their lives to form our nation. They were absolutely imperfect and even flawed men but they made a commitment and they determined to follow through.

That, along with many other men and women inspire me to make a firm commitment to Christ and determine to live my life in His service.

Thank you for stopping in today.

Davy

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

The Birth Of Hope

As I mentioned last week, I was thrilled to preach under the Tabernacle at St. Thomas. I had been looking forward to being at that meeting to sing, but I never really thought about the joy of preaching outside again.  

First, I did not know I would be preaching during the meeting and second, I was mostly concerned about the possibility of excessive heat. The meeting has a well earned reputation of being a hot one.

Here I am after service, which I preached, Sunday night.


So once I learned I would be preaching the previous week, I never considered all it would mean to me. As I was preaching Sunday night, I was nearly overwhelmed by emotion that I was actually preaching outdoors.


Earlier this year it was highly uncertain IF I would ever stand behind a pulpit and preach anywhere, much less under a tabernacle in a camp meeting. I have been emotional about it ever since and thankful to God for bringing me a mighty long way!


It is not exactly the same as preaching under a Gospel tent as I have many hundreds of nights, but it sure was nice and felt mighty good. I may never be able to set up a tent and preach under it again, but this meeting dared me to hope.




Hope never hurt anyone. Thank you for stopping by.

Davy

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

A Word For Wednesday, We Have The Power to Change The Story, Boggs Family Ministries

Thank you for joining us today. Tonight is the last night of revival in Thomasville and each service has been wonderful so far. We love being in revival and I am thankful that God has helped us. We will have pictures of revival tomorrow or Friday by God's grace.

We are so happy to bring you Word For Wednesday. A few moments ago I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel. Please watch and leave us a comment here or on YouTube.

Pastor Bill Parks preached from the book of Jonah recently and his premise blew my mind.
Bro Parks said IF Jonah had obeyed God, the whole book would have been ten verses long. But Jonah added much trouble to his life because of disobedience! If we will obey God instantly He will bring great things to pass and we will avoid so much trouble in our lives by simple obedience. Here is how the book of Job should have read. Two verses in Chapter One 1 Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. And eight verses from Chapter Three. 3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. 4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. 5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: 8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. 9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? 10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

A Word For Wednesday, They Had No Right to Win. But They Did!

Thank you for joining us today. We are so happy to bring you Word For Wednesday. A few moments ago I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel. Please watch and leave us a comment here or on YouTube.

They had no right to win. But they did!

I am building on last week's A Word For Wednesday. Can I say this friend? You have no right to win but you can! 

"They had no right to win. Yet they did,
And in doing so they changed the course of a war
Even against the greatest of odds, 
There is something in the human spirit
A magic blend of skill, faith, and valor
That can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory." 

The odds were against Gideon and Israel and God keeps manipulating the odds against them until they are in an absolutely horrible position. There is no way for them to win and God says that is just right!

Thank you for stopping in today.

Davy

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

A Word For Wednesday, They Say You Can't Do It!, Boggs Family Ministries

Later this morning, there will be a second Mile Marker with pictures from Tuesday Night of Dryden Rd. Indoor Fellowship Meeting.

Thank you for joining us today. We are so happy to bring you Word For Wednesday. A few moments ago I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel. Please give it a listen and leave us a comment here or on YouTube.


The devil says, the devil's crowd says, they say You will lose, but God says you can do it!

The Battle of Midway June 4-7, 1942 demonstrates there is hope for the underdog. I love this quote about the Battle of Midway from Walter Lord. "They had no right to win. Yet they did, And in doing so they changed the course of a war Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit A magic blend of skill, faith, and valor
That can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory."

Thank you for dropping by.

Davy

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

A Word For Wednesday, Don't Quit Singing, Boggs Family Ministries

Thank you for joining us today. We are so happy to bring you Word For Wednesday. A few moments ago I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel. Please give it a listen and leave us a comment here or on YouTube.


The children of Israel were defeated and in despair and they could not sing even though they were known by their song. They had lost their joy and they quit singing.

Psalm 137:1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. 2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. 3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion! 4 How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?
They were dragged away from home and could not sing! They lost their joy and quit singing! Saints of God, we as God's children are known by our song. We can not lose our song. Don't quit singing!

Thank you for stopping by today.

Davy

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

A Word For Wednesday, A Word Fitly Spoken, Boggs Family Ministries

Thank you for joining us today. We are so happy to bring you Word For Wednesday. A few moments ago I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel. Please give it a listen and leave us a comment here or on YouTube.

Proverbs 25:11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Our words spoken at the right time and in the right spirit are beautiful in the lives of those we encounter.

In today's A Word For Wednesday, I rehearse a story communicated by Rabbi Shais Taub as he related an interview with a forensic psychologist he read in the New Yorker Magazine. It demonstrates the amazing power of a word fitly spoken.

Thank you for spending a few moments with us today.

Davy

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

A Word For Wednesday, The Gift Of Gratitude, Boggs Family Ministries

Thank you for joining us today. We are so happy to bring you Word For Wednesday. A few moments ago I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel. Please give it a listen and leave us a comment here or on YouTube.

You are not gifting another person anything when you are generous in gratitude toward them. Your genuine gratitude will be the biggest blessing to you!

One of the signs of the last days is an epidemic of unthankful followed by unholy. May God help us strive to have an attitude of gratitude in our lives. 

Today I tell the story I originally read in The Man Who Forgot by Clarence Macartney of two Generals on opposite sides of battle that allowed kindness and gratitude to prevail in their personal lives.

Thank you.

Davy

Thursday, July 18, 2024

We Must Persevere!

Earlier this week I was posting about our weekend and publishing pictures from the Boggs Reunion 2024. I spent time last week going through some of the old Mile Markers looking for pictures from previous years that other family members might be interested in seeing.

During that research, I ran across a personal story that happened in 1981. It has been over seven years since I repeated it here and I think it is time to tell it again. Not only for you but mostly for me. The theme is the importance of perseverance and I certainly need a good dose that right now.

Please stay with me a few minutes today. I will not be long.

In July 1981 our family camped at Carter Caves in a pop up camper for nearly two weeks. I was 14 years old and had just finished 8th grade. I ran all over the park, roaming the trails, touring caves, swimming and having myself a time. One of the reasons I remember the year is that we watched Prince Charles and Princess Di get married on a small  black and white TV sitting on a table outside our little camper. They were married July 29, 1981.

I remember Carter Caves about as far back as I remember anything from childhood but it was that trip that made it a part of my heart. I fell in love with Carter Caves that July. I hiked every step of every one of the main park trails and went into all the caves I could find. 

I re-learned an important lesson about perseverance that week too. I signed up for a spelunking tour through one of the caves. The spelunking tours go off the path of the regular commercial lighted tours. You crawl on your belly through the mud and water and squeeze through tight passages exploring nooks and crannies with nothing but a flashlight. I mean with a name like "spelunking" it has got to be fun!

The description sounded awesome to me even though I had a pretty good touch of claustrophobia. How bad could it be, right? 

Well, it turns out it could be pretty bad. I bought my ticket and showed up at the cave entrance with everyone else. I had my long pants, long sleeves, solid shoes, flashlight and I was ready to go. By the time the cave guide finished reading all the fine print about the impossibly narrow passages we would be slithering through I was completely convinced I would suffocate in a deep passage somewhere even IF the whole thing did not collapse and bury us all.

As the group filed into the cave, I slinked into the woods and followed the trail up the hill to the campground. Dad and Mom were surprised to see me back so early. I told them how dangerous the spelunking tour was but I could see right away that Dad was not convinced.

My Dad was not going to be a part of raising a bunch of quitters and I already knew that. "Once you start something you can't quit. Quitters never win and winners never quit." 

I pretty much believed it at that time but this was different. I was making a prudent decision based on accurate information given to me by a cave guide probably under 20 years old that was trying to scare everyone to death during this tour. I was saving my life by backing out.

Nope! According to Dad I was quitting and quitting was unacceptable. Plus I had wasted the $1.75 I had spent on the non-refundable spelunking cave tour ticket.

Dad never once said that I had to pay for another ticket and follow through or forever be labeled a quitter. He did drive the lesson home pretty good. I do not even think he suggested that I had to do it. But I knew when I was walking up that hill before I ever told my Dad about it that I would never be satisfied with myself until I spelunked through that cave.

The next time the tour was offered that week I slipped away and bought another $1.75 ticket, gathered at the cave entrance and listened to the impassioned speech about all the dangers that lie ahead. I ignored my cowardly heart beating visibly through my shirt and refused to allow my feet to turn and run. When they opened the gate and started inside I turned on my flashlight and marched with the others toward certain and disastrously painful death.

43 years later I do not remember much about the actual tour. I am pretty sure I was scared in some of those passages, I know I prayed the whole time but I am also sure I had a great time. 

do remember how I felt when I walked out of that cave alive into the sunshine. I felt like I could do anything because I was not a quitter. I remember how I felt when I walked into camp covered in mud from head to toe. I felt like a world champion. I pretty much was a champion because I was not a quitter.

I am not convinced that I can do much on my own anymore. I have tried and failed way too many times to put much confidence in myself. But I am VERY convinced in the power of determination when combined with trust in God. 

The power of the human spirit is amazing sometimes. Men have completed some huge feats, almost unbelievable tasks because they refused to give up. If you combine that determination and no quit attitude with complete trust and faith in God then there is no telling what God can do in our lives. I Know that to be true.

The spelunking tour reinforced that in the heart of this 14 year old boy. I have bought the ticket and went home defeated more times than I care to remember but by God's grace I have raised up to go again. I did not quit.

Not quitting does not mean Not failing. A thousand times no! Not quitting means Not quitting. We may fall and stumble and make a complete mess but we are Not quitting. We are not going to stay down but we are going to get back up again by God's grace and help! Our mind is made up and we will not wallow in defeat and die in despair.
Micah 7:8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
Amen!

Physically I feel pretty much defeated at the moment. But a little purposeful perseverance will go a long way by God's grace.

Oh, by the way. The three hour spelunking tour that was $1.75 in 1981.... Is over $30 now! OUCH!

Have a great day and do not quit!

Davy

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

A Word For Wednesday,The Intensity of A Personal Experience, Boggs Family Ministries


Good Morning! Thank you for joining us today. We are so happy to bring you A Word For Wednesday. A few moments ago I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel. Please give it a listen and leave us a comment here or on YouTube. 

A personal experience with God is intense. It will touch every area of our life.

We Need revivals in our communities, families and in our nation. We need to experience God corporately.  But we must experience God personality. We must have a personal experience! It is vitally important.

Thank you for stopping by today.

Davy

Thursday, July 11, 2024

Revival Memories, Summer Revival and A Word For Wednesday

Thank you very much for watching A Word For Wednesday each week and the current Summer Revival Series. It is always nice to have you with us AND to hear from you as well.

It is kind of strange to realize that we are in the fourth year of producing A Word For Wednesday. I never dreamed that I would have anything left to say when I began In January 2021. There are some weeks that I feel like I have exhausted every possibility and then my mind opens to a whole treasure trove of Biblical insight and stories that stir me spiritually.

I reckon I will continue until the well of my mind goes completely dry. I think I have another week or two in me.😍

We have really enjoyed the Summer Revival Series the last several weeks and we hope to run through July and maybe a week or two into August. It has been wonderful to get back to the roots of our YouTube Channel and the ten weeks of revival in 2020.

The link above will take you to the playlist of those 61 services and below is the very first service.


We had no idea what we were doing. We had begun the YouTube channel in the previous 48 hours and we were learning on the fly. However, we wanted to be instruments of revival and we were doing it the only way we could think of at the time. 

It worked out pretty good and we were spiritually blessed because of it. You may notice that Odie's voice is included during the first three weeks of revival but she is not physically present. We are having church in her garage and she is in the house using a cordless microphone and in-ear cordless monitor to hear us.

Kelly and I had been exposed to Covid the week before in Australia and we had been cautioned by the Australian government to self-quarantine for three weeks. That is exactly what we did. This was the first service where Odie joined us in person 21 days after we returned to the US and the 18th night of revival.


It was a very uncertain time in the world but God gave us revival in the middle of it. We will always look back fondly on those days. Even though Covid beat up on me pretty badly in 2021 and is still affecting my health three years on, it can not kill revival.

Thank God for revival then and thank God for revival now, Thank you for joining us too! We plan to crank up again tomorrow evening at 8:00 Eastern.

Thank you for stopping by today.

Davy

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

A Word For Wednesday, The Importance of Personal Revival, Boggs Family Ministries

Good Morning! Thank you for joining us today. We are so happy to bring you A Word For Wednesday. A few moments ago I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel. Please give it a listen and leave us a comment here or on YouTube. 

We Need revivals in our communities, families and in our nation. We need to experience God corporately. But we must experience God personality. We must have personal revival! It is widely important. 

Thank you for reading and watching today.

Davy

Wednesday, July 3, 2024

A Word For Wednesday, Are You Clean?, Boggs Family Ministries

Good Morning! Thank you for joining us today. We are so happy to bring you A Word For Wednesday. A few moments ago I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel. Please listen and leave us a comment here or on YouTube. 


Today I am sharing an insightful story told by James Kraft from the Kraft Cheese Company many years ago about a visit to Alcatraz. I found the story by C. Roy Angel in Baskets of Silver.

Thank you for tuning in today. 

Davy

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

A Word For Wednesday, The Hill of Difficulty, Boggs Family Ministries

Good Morning! Thank you for joining us today. We are so happy to bring you A Word For Wednesday. A few moments ago I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel. Please give it a listen and leave us a comment here or on YouTube. 


A story today from a man named Christian in the book Pilgrim's Progress. He faced the hill of difficulty on his journey to the Celestial City. Every person who starts toward Heaven will face difficulty and they will be offered opportunities to turn around or compromise. We must determine we are going to make it!

To go back is certain death, I must go forward! I will yet go forward.

Thank you for reading and watching today.

Davy

Wednesday, June 19, 2024

A Word For Wednesday, Don’t Condemn Me, Is That What The Bible Says?

Good Morning! Thank you for joining us today. We are so happy to bring you A Word For Wednesday. A few moments ago I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel. Please give it a listen and leave us a comment here or on YouTube. 


A common phrase today is Don't Condemn Me! There is no condemnation for me. I am in Christ so you have no right to condemn me. The idea is I can live however I want and do whatever I want. I am not under condemnation. But is that what the Bible says?

It does say
Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus

But we must read the rest of the text!

Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

We are in Christ, walking in the Spirit and not walking in the flesh and the devil has nothing on us! It does not give us liberty to do anything we want to do and forbid anyone to correct us or teach us.

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

A Word For Wednesday, Ask, Seek, Knock, Boggs Family Ministries

Good Morning! Thank you for joining us today. We are so happy to bring you A Word For Wednesday. A few moments ago I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel. Please give it a listen and leave us a comment here or on YouTube. 

Prayer is vitally important in the lives of Christians and in the effectiveness of our churches. Jesus told us to ask and to seek and to knock.
Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? 10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Hallelujah! Christ said we will receive, we will find and the doors of heaven shall be opened! Please allow me to exhort us today to be people of prayer! Saints of God, let us be a praying church!

The thumbnail is a screen grab of my grandmother Bessie (Lamb) Isaacs in a video made by the Spencer Family in 1985 called Praying

Thank you for joining us today.

Davy

Wednesday, June 5, 2024

A Word For Wednesday, The Blessing In The Thorn

Good Morning! Thank you for joining us today. We are so happy to bring you A Word For Wednesday. A few moments ago I posted A Word for Wednesday on our YouTube Channel. Please give it a listen and leave us a comment here or on YouTube. 

I am speaking today about another song that has shaped us. The Blessing In The Thorn. This song is drawn from Apostle Paul in II Corinthians12

7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

The Blessing In The Thorn Lyrics I read about a man of God who gloried in his weakness And I wished that I could be more like Him and less like me Am I to blame for what I'm not? Or is pain the way God teaches me to grow? I need to know When does the thorn become a blessing? When does the pain become a friend? When does the weakness make me stronger? When does my faith make me whole again? I want to feel His arms around me In the middle of my raging storm So that I can see the blessing in the thorn I've heard it said the strength of Christ is perfect in my weakness And the more that I go through, the more I prove the promise true His love will go to any length It reaches even now to where I am But tell me once again When does the thorn become a blessing? When does the pain become a friend? When does the weakness make me stronger? When does my faith make me whole again? I want to feel His arms around me In the middle of my raging storm So that I can see the blessing in the thorn Lord, I have to ask You On the cross You suffered through Was there a time You ever doubted What You already knew? Hmm When does the thorn become a blessing? When does the pain become a friend? When does my weakness make me stronger? When does my faith make me whole again? I want to feel His arms around me In the middle of my raging storm So that I can see the blessing in the thorn Oh, I want to see the blessing in the thorn
Songwriters: Dave Clark / Don Koch / Randy Phillips