Sunday, October 28, 2012

#Honduras2012 - Karla's Baptism

Karla sharing her testimony
I praise God for the privilege of calling my friend Karla (in Siguatepeque, Honduras) my SISTER in Christ! What a privilege it was to meet with her this summer to study the Word, pray, and to witness Christ capture her heart. Meeting with her was my favorite part of that trip. And now that she is His, she has joyfully obeyed her Lord by being baptized. Wish I could have been there to praise God with her for His gracious work of salvation! I'm rejoicing just like my Daddy :D (Luke 15:10). Soli Deo Gloria!

Pastor Melvin baptizing Karla
JOY!


Thursday, October 18, 2012

"I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages." 
- Charles Spurgeon

Monday, October 15, 2012

"When I speak of growth in grace, I only mean increase in the degree, size, strength, vigour, and power of the graces which the Holy Spirit plants in a believer’s heart. I hold that every one of those graces admits of growth, progress and increase. I hold that repentance, faith, hope, love, humility, zeal, courage, and the like may be little or great, strong or weak, vigorous or feeble and may vary greatly in the same man at different periods of his life. When I speak of a man growing in grace, I mean simply this: that his sense of sin is becoming deeper, his faith stronger, his hope brighter, his love more extensive, his spiritual mindedness more marked. He feels more of the power of godliness in his own heart; he manifests more of it in his life; he is going on from strength to strength, from faith to faith, and from grace to grace. I leave it to others to describe such a man’s condition by any words they please. For myself, I think the truest and best account of him is this: he is growing in grace."
- Chris Wall