First a true story! There was a terrible house fire in Dallas, Texas. The fire destroyed the home and everyone in the home. All the family members perished in the fire except one little girl. She lived, but she was horribly disfigured and scarred. After the horror of it all, people shook their heads and […]
We shall be dealing with at length the Christmas truths found in Philippians 2:5-9. But first, Christians, and particularly Christian ministers, are exactly what I Corinthians 4:1 tells us we are, and that is: “STEWARDS OF THE MYSTERIES OF GOD.” Neither pastor or parishioner can afford to forget this basic truth: “THE ENTIRE CHRISTIAN FAITH […]
We have come to a pivotal point in our Christmas exposition of Philippians 2:5-6 that is central in this entire awesome passage. We touched on it last time, but we must grasp it more firmly in our minds and hearts. It is the transitional statement in Philippians 2:7, “But emptied Himself.” This begins the series […]
The New Testament Greek word for WISDOM is SOPHIA. No, not as in Sophia Loren, but rather as in PHILO–SOPHY! The New Testament Greek word for PHILOSOPHY is PHILO–SOPHIA which simply means LOVER OF WISDOM. The Greek word PHILEO means LOVE. So you put PHILEO and SOPHIA together and you have PHILOSOPHIA which as we […]
I still have many friends who are hyper-Calvinists. To hear them speak, and to read their periodicals, one then realizes that they view the world as a stage. Men and women are merely players on that stage who speak their pre-written lines and act out their prescribed roles likes puppets on Divine strings. God does […]
There is an epidemic of GUTLESS WORD-MINCING in preaching today so as not to offend people’s self-interests. You know, preaching that allows people to supposedly embrace the Christ and at the same time hold on to their personal preferences. It is better known in our colloquialisms as: “HAVING YOUR CAKE AND EATING IT TOO.”
It is with deep compassion, inner pain, a heavy and I trust a righteously angry heart that I bring this before you. I am sure that it is nothing new or even all that shocking anymore to many of us. That is a very sad problem in itself. What I am about to address happens […]
Your eager and positive response to Wayne Benson’s “The Passion of the Vanguard” was so strong, that again with his blessing I bring you what I am calling “The Spouse Seducer’s Strategies” taken from his powerful series “Restoring Spiritual Passion – A Passion for Holiness.” Wayne’s heart has always strongly reached out to the needs […]
5. THE NEED TO DEFINE THE RELATIONSHIP The next thing that happens is that there is a sense of a “Need To Define The Relationship.” A need to describe it! And maybe you will begin to articulate it, maybe to that person, but maybe not. But in any case, the question will be asked:“WHAT […]
By M. Wayne Benson It is my high honor to share with you this teaching by M. Wayne. Benson. “The Passion Of The Vanguard” is a tiny but powerful part of a series of teachings entitled “Restoring Spiritual Passion” which were preached by Wayne when he was Senior Pastor of First Assembly of God in […]
By M. Wayne Benson [We continue now with Pastor Wayne Benson’s timely and powerful series on “The Passion of the Vanguard.”] The vision and the passion of the ones on the cutting edge, the “Vanguard,” is that their lives and everything that they do is dominated by the Holy Spirit’s presence and power – consumed […]
My husband and I are proud parents of three foster children and four children of our own. We became foster parents after the foster home that our first foster child came from lost their license due to lack of proper judgment on raising a teenage girl. She was our daughter’s best friend and she was […]
