What The Bible Says in 52 Penny Pulpit Essays From 2015

What The Bible Says

in 52 Penny Pulpit Essays From 2015

By Pastor Edward G. Rice

A Rural Pastor With A Royal Message

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Msg #1501 A Man A Plan

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

Read backwards the line “A man a plan a canal panama” and you get what you started with. It is called a palindrome. I cannot think about a plan without that line coming to mind. It is called senility. The year 2015 is upon us and we need a plan, a goal, a resolution, a five year schema with several annual achievable objectives. The Kingdom of God does not operate like any kingdom of this world. The twelve disciples and I try to force fit it into achievable resolutions, but Jesus puts it succinctly, “He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal” (John 12:25). In his Kingdom, to save your life you loose it, abundant life comes when we die daily, to gain bread, cast thy bread upon the water, to gain riches, give away all that you have. My plans are more attractive. But he still insists, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit” (vr. 24) His plan does not have a “Purpose Driven” Church, Life or Anything! It is like, “He must increase and I must decrease!” I dare not belittle resolutions, but this year I want to hear Paul beseeching me by the mercies of God, that I present my body a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God. (Rom 12) May I “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5), and let that corn of wheat die, as I quote “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me” (Gal 2:20). Happy New Year.

An Essay for week #1 Jan 4, 15

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Msg #1502 The Word and Faith

What The Bible Says

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There is a substance of things hoped for. There is an evidence of things not seen. It is both “The Word” that became flesh and dwelt among us, and it is “The Word” which is as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Think of the substance of both. Think of the evidence of both. “The Word”, in each form, is the manifestation of God. The subject of Hebrews eleven is faith. We understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, and how do we understand that? By the Word of God which communicates it and by “The Word” in the flesh who confirmed it. Note that if we have any measure of faith, we receive it because “faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” Note also, that if we believe in Jesus Christ, Galatians 2:16 says we believe “by the faith OF Jesus Christ”, it is not my faith. If you use a modernist’s bible, they suppose what God meant to say, and their Gal 2:16 takes out the faith OF Jesus Christ, and substitutes our puny faith. It is important to study the Words of God, not modernist copyright words. Hebrews eleven goes on contending that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Last year Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis debated Bill Nye the Science Guy. Although it was an excellent exercise in apologetics, the Science Guy could not believe! No inerrant Bible, no Christ, no faith. Know an inerrant Bible, know Christ, know faith. For Bill Nye seeing is believing, but for a Christian, believing is seeing, “and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. (Eph 2:8-9) In 2015 let us grow in faith.

An Essay for week #2 Jan 11, 15

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Msg #1503 Faith and Hope

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

Some people have a propensity for the curious; they are students. It is curious that our Lord announces that only three things will abide into His Church’s maturity; faith, hope, and charity. Prophesying and speaking in tongues falls amongst the immature. In these “Last Days” the attempted resurrection of the immature things is more disheartening and heretical than curious. But that faith and hope abide together is curious. Faith is the substance of things hoped for. What then is hope? Peter instructs saints to always be ready to give an answer for the hope that is in you, but Job, in the pits of despair said “All hope is lost”, yeah indeed, he said that God himself took it away from him (Job 7:6, 17:15, 19:10). In Matthew 8:28-34 the only hope of hogs, and some men, is comfort, food and health.But in his dialogue Job words the supreme hope of a believer, “For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me” (Job 19:25-27). Faith and hope unite to bring us salvation (Rom 8:24). Faith carries us through the needs of this life while the believer’s hope abides unassuaged by cares of this world. “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity” (1Cor 13:13). Pursue charity, “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear” (1Pet 3:15).

An Essay for week #3 Jan 18, 15

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Msg #1504 Charity Suffereth Long and Wrong

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity” (1Cor 13:13). These three instruments of Christianity remain hallmarks of maturity, maturity of his Church, and maturity of his disciples. Consider three things about the greatest of these, charity. First that 1Cor 13 supremely depicts charity. It shows its supreme value (vr.1-3), character (vr.4-7), and endurance (vr8-13). In good English the word “charity” is larger than the word “love,” as much as the Greek word “agapos” is larger than “phileo.” (see John 21:15a&b) One is selfless, the other still holds some measure of selfish. This chapter delineates the purest and most selfless of Godly love, and it is rightly translated “charity.” Second, consider that charity motivates our action. The believer is to be the ambassador for Christ, with a ministry of reconciliation (2Cor5:20, 17-19). In 2Cor 5 Paul describes why we labor for Christ while still in the flesh. These motivations seem to follow a progression of maturity: #1 “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ” (vr.10), #2 “Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord” (vr. 11), and #3 “For the love of Christ constraineth us” (vr.14). What does this love constrain us to do? To preach the gospel to every creature. Lastly, consider that charity tells who we are. “A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another…. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another…. If ye love me keep my commandments…. This is my commandment, that ye love one another as I have loved you…. Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you” (John 13:34-35, 14:15, 15:12-14). The pure love of Christ indwells us, involves us, and identifies us. Awesome!

An Essay for week #4 Jan 25, 15

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Msg #1505 A Crucible Called Marriage

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

The epistle which answers the most questions about marriage and divorce also provides a list of fifteen characteristics of true love. There is no greater laboratory for testing every one of these fifteen qualities than the institution of marriage. There is no institution better equipped to reveal the depths and purity of God’s love than the Christian home. Some crucial things found when entering this laboratory is that love suffereth long, is not easily provoked, and endureth all things. An entry into marriage is intended to be a full time and a lifetime testing of our ability to demonstrate true love. In marriage love is not a gushy feeling, it is a command of God. And in this laboratory of God’s design, a true love grows and develops… or not. Never let it be said in your home, “We drifted apart.” Jesus says of his commands, “If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.” Purpose to maintain a Christlike, Christian marriage. The marriage vows only have provision for a love which will endure all things. Marriage vows are sacred vows taken before God and man. Christian marriage vows contain the line, “Until death do us part.” They have no prenuptial agreement about another way of ending this arrangement. They require one man and one woman for one lifetime, faithfulness and fidelity. There is a life time commitment in the vow. It also contains the clause, “In sickness and health, for richer or poorer.” That is only an introduction to “enduring all things.” The full depth of “suffering long” is tested in the crucible of life. It is played out in the bedroom, in the finances and in old family ties of a Christian home. The laboratory where, “enduring all things,” is tested, is indeed called marriage.

An Essay for week #5 Feb 1, 15

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Msg #1506 Purpose and Union for Valentines

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

What the LORD God reveals about our wives is remarkable. What men don’t understand about women is remarkable. The value added to the husbands who study what God said is even more remarkable. Allow some remarks on these “remarkables.” God gives three reasons why the woman can’t do some things which the man is commanded to do. 1Tim. 2:13-15 lists all three reasons. First, “For Adam was first formed, then Eve.” 1Cor. 11:9 states this first reason, “Neither was man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.” Genesis 1:18 states it, “And the LORD God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him an help (appropriate) for him.” Two more reasons given, the woman is designed for mothering (vr. 15) and the helping-mothering design makes women the weaker vessel, more prone to deception. (vr.14,1Pet 3:7) The LORD God said that a man alone is not complete. Husband, the best design for your completion is the little woman you married. It is a pretty sorry man who sets on his hands until his appropriate helper is forced to get out in front and do the leading. The woman is a weaker vessel physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Husbands, the stronger, are to stand up and be the guardian and protector physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Women are different then men. That used to go without saying. The epitome of married life is that God, the three-in-one, designed marriage between man and woman, that these two-in-one could reflect his perfect unity. God’s design for your marriage is that the intimate physical union, the secure emotional union, and the God-honoring spiritual union can make your marriage and your home a taste of paradise here on earth. Repair the breaches and have a Happy Valentines Day.

An Essay for week #6 Feb 8, 15

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Msg #1507 Leadership School

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

Every husband is thrust into the role of leadership. When you stand at an altar, and a young lady promises to love, honor, and obey… well, you are now in a leadership position. Moses was enrolled in God’s leadership school and husbands are too. How is school going? Husbands are to be God’s spokesman in the home, and the family’s spokesman before the LORD God. Before Moses could be God’s spokesman, 1) he had to stand in the presence of God, 2) he had to hear the words of the LORD God, and 3) he had to personally talk to the LORD God. How many times did Moses go up into the mountain to meet with God? How many times did he stay for forty days? Remember when he came down from talking with God and glowed so bright they put a vail over his head? So, how much time should a leader spend with the LORD God? How much glow do you bring into your home? When Israel chided him about water, bread, or meat, Moses took it to God. God allowed circumstances in Israel’s journey, things which drove Moses into God’s presence as their intercessor. When calamities of life come, sometimes, God is just waiting for the responsible leader to come into his presence. Military leadership school teaches that a leader must do three things well: 1) He must see the larger picture and always keep the goal in view; 2) He must motivate people to do things they do not ordinarily do; and 3) He must meet the needs of people. In the Christian home, God will take care of those when we confess our need and take care to meet with him daily. It worked well for Moses. So, how IS school going? Keep looking up.

An Essay for week #7 Feb 15, 15

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Msg #1508 Two Shall Be One

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

God, the three-in-one with perfect unity, designed for man, created in his image, a home where man could have two-in-one. The husband and wife are designed and compatible to become one flesh. The part where they become a perfect unity is an ongoing development yielding an ongoing joy. That was always God’s intent and it can be fulfilled in Christian marriage. There is nobody on earth who knows you with as much intimacy as your spouse. He knows if you read your Bible this morning. She knows if you prayed.. That is spiritual intimacy. He can hold her hand when it’s below zero outside. She can touch his arm when the car doesn’t start. That is physical intimacy. He can see her heart at the funeral home. She can know his pain when that application is turned down. That is emotional intimacy. No other human on this globe can know you as your spouse does. Your marriage can be selfish, or it can be selfless. God always intended the latter. Don’t let “selfish” rule your home, else you will never get that taste of paradise which God intended. Two made one flesh, with perfect unity, is not only key to a precious marriage, it is key to our union with Christ. In fact marriage is meant to whet our appetite for our perfect union with God. When one is born again they are 1) Converted, 2) Indwelt, 3) Quickened, 4) Justified, and 5) Wholly immersed into Christ (baptized into). Christ describes this as “abide in me and I in you.” He prayed the Father that he and I would be one, even as he and the Father are one. Perfect unity in marriage is a marvelous foreshadow. Ain’t love grand! Perhaps the gas line is frozen, try some dry-gas.

An Essay for week #8 Feb 22, 15

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Msg #1509 Jesus Our Perfect Example

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

God was made flesh and dwelt among us for only one reason, but while he was in the flesh he gave a perfect example of how we can live. Jesus was our example in five particulars. 1) Growth, “Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man”(Luke 2:52). His four-fold growth is our example. Some of us have grown to large in stature, and need to focus on less artificial sweetener, preservatives, and color-enhancers in our growth of stature! When you stop growing you start dying, and Christians are appointed to more abundant life. 2) Witness, John 4 records that “Jesus must needs go through Samaria,” and details Jesus’ longest soul-winning conversation. It is an example for being a good witnesses. 3) Prayer, Luke 11 finds disciples asking, “Teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.” How often did Jesus pray? He had a place of prayer, a practice of prayer, a position of prayer and a propensity for prayer. If the Son of God in the flesh needed prayer, what of me? Men ought always to pray and not to faint (Luke 18:1). 4) Ministry, “He poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples feet…For I have given you an example”(John 13:5,15). Abraham and Mary Magdalene washed the feet of God, Mary with tears. The Holy Bible does not establish foot washing as an ordinance, but Jesus established it as an example of ministering to others. Walk in his steps. And 5) Love, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” (John15:13). Jesus is our example to grow, witness, pray, minister, and love. There is no greater example, but despite what Barack Hussein and the Muslims say, that is still not why he came.

An Essay for week #9 Mar 1, 15

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Msg #1510 Christ Our Perfect Passover Lamb

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

Christians rarely give sufficient weight to God’s portrait of the Passover Lamb. “…For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us” (1Cor 5:7). Details of the Passover Lamb are given in Exodus 12; the commemoration feast in its honor in Leviticus 23 and Numbers 9. The Passover Lamb’s blood, when applied in obedience, removed the condemnation of death from a house . “… when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you…” (Exod 12:13). The lamb was separated from the flocks on the 10^th of the month Abib; ours was on a Palm Sunday. It was kept out for five days to insure it was without blemish; ours was examined from Sunday to Thursday. On the 14^th of the month “the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening” (12:6); ours was slain on the 14^th, on an old rugged cross. The next day was a high holy day, a sabbath, with a holy “convocation,” i.e. assembling and reading, beginning a seven day feast of unleavened bread. When we apply his blood to the door post of our heart, we pass from death unto life, we enter into his sabbath rest, and we unite with his holy “convocation,” called a “Church,”i.e. a called out and assembled together body of believers. We purge out leaven as instructed in 1Cor 5:6-8. We forsake not the assembling of ourselves together on the first day of the week when God rose our Passover Lamb from the dead and made him our only mediator and High Priest. That is only a quick glance of God’s portrait of a Passover Lamb. Dust off those 39 books of the Old Testament, they have a depth and resolution which can make your heart rejoice.

An Essay for week #10 Mar 8, 15

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Msg #1511 Christ Our Perfect High Priest

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

Without the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ we would have no High Priest to atone for our sin, and no mediator to stand between us and God. I have heard a hundred sermons on the importance of the resurrection. For me all reasons pale before our need of a High Priest. When Christ, God incarnate, died as my Passover Lamb, he cried, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up the ghost. Even though, at this point, he fulfilled the role of a Passover Lamb, i.e. he died “for” us, he had not yet purged our sins. The epistle to the Hebrews states, “When he had by himself purged our sins, (he) sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high” (Heb 1:3b). “It is finished,” applied to his role as our Passover Lamb; in his role as our high priest he had to take the Lamb’s blood into the most holy place and sprinkle it on the ark of the covenant. There was a physical ark containing the covenant with Israel, but that ark was only made after the pattern of the one residing in heaven (Exod 25:9). The resurrected Christ took His blood to the actual throne of God and sprinkled it on the ark of the covenant. Recall how the resurrected Lord told Mary Magdalene, “Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father” (John 20:17). In like manner, the high priest was not to be touched as he brought the sacrificial atoning blood into the most holy place on the Day of Atonement. God did not put more into his Old Testament imagery than he could fulfill in his Only Begotten Son. When he purged our sin with his blood, he did it as our High Priest.

An Essay for week #11 Mar 15, 15

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Msg #1512 Spiritual Warfare

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

In his first epistle, the Apostle Paul writes, “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel.” There is still cause to marvel about that peril. When one gets born-again, under-the-blood, I-am-redeemed-saved the Holy Spirit of God indwells them and leads them into all truth. The believers at Galatia, however, had a more powerful leading which they readily followed; causing Paul to marvel. All religion misleads; it detracts from the grace of Christ. In Galatia the detractor was Judaism and works of the law. Today, predominately Romanism and works of penance, priests, and predestination. That leaven, the three “P”s of the corrupt Latin Vulgate, leavened into every Protestant denomination, and they ardently preach another gospel, which is not another. Infant baptism, confirmation classes, robed clergy with backward collars, yoga classes to improve Karma, Five pillars of Islam… all religion is in opposition to the grace of Christ. True Christianity is not progressive. A reformed denomination of the “Christian Religion” may adopt homosexual marriage while the world applauds their inclusiveness, but true Christianity is what Paul preached throughout all of the wicked city of Corinth in A.D. 60. “For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scripture; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures… Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.” (1Cor15:3-4,11) Again, “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died FOR us” (Rom5:8) It is not religion, it is a relationship; only received by the substitutionary death of the Lord Jesus Christ. Flee apostasy, preach repentance.

An Essay for week #12 Mar 22, 15

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Msg #1513 This Week Know Your Friend

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

Palm Sunday marks a Christian’s calendar with an importance that disciples explore enthusiastically. For Israel, on the tenth day of Abib, the passover lamb was separated from the flock and watched until the fourteenth day of the month. It was to be without spot or blemish. Our Lord Jesus Christ was separated from the rest on Palm Sunday. He taught daily in the temple and prayed daily with his disciples. He purged the temple of money changers on Sunday and again on Monday. He wept over Jerusalem, and cursed a fig tree. He taught parables and his authority angered the Scribes and Pharisees. There was a widows mite, an Olivet discourse, and a friends betrayal. On the fourteenth day of the month they crucified him. He died as our Passover Lamb. In those days of examination Jesus said, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” Our friend walked through these four days in full public view. Each day and each event is carefully recorded for a disciple’s study. Such detail is hidden from Rome. It cannot be seen by Protestants with Good Friday leftovers. But for the believers who reject her traditions and open his pages, there is wealth and wisdom about a friend which sticketh closer than a brother. Religionists go to a Roman Good Friday celebration, Bible students go to a midweek prayer meeting and remember the last supper in his presence. “A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity” (Pr 17:17). “A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother” (18:24). “Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not” (27:10a).Let Jesus be your closest friend on this most precious week.

An Essay for week #13 Mar 29, 15

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Msg #1514 Resurrection After Three Days

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

“But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain” (1Cor15:3-4). TV-2 News announced last week that “some” Christians believe that Jesus rose from the dead on Easter. To be accurate “ALL” Christians believe that 19 centuries ago, on the Sunday after Passover, the Christ arose from the dead. Believe less and you are not Christian at all. Most believe more. Some believe it all. The Lord Jesus Christ said, “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die” (John11:25-26). The gospel message of Christianity is, “that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures (not the second day as Rome contends): And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve” (1Cor15:3-5). Students of the Holy Bible know that the day after Passover was a sabbath day, and that sabbath days are not just on Saturdays. Again Jesus said, “For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matt12:39, cf 16:4, Lu11:29). Luke 24:21 says, “and beside all this, today is the third day since these things were done.” Again, Jesus said, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up” (John 2:19) Three days in the tomb is important to a Bible believer: not so much to Roman dogma or TV-2 news. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, makes three days.

An Essay for week #14 Apr 5, 15

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Msg #1515

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #15 Apr 12, 15

Msg #1516

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #16 Apr 19, 15

Msg #1517

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #17 Apr 26, 15

Msg #1518

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #18 May 3, 15

Msg #1519

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #19 May 10, 15

Msg #1520

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #20 May 17, 15

Msg #1521

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #21 May 24, 15

Msg #1522

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #22 May 31, 15

Msg #1523

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #23 Jun 7, 15

Msg #1524

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #24 Jun 14, 15

Msg #1525

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #25 Jun 21, 15

Msg #1526

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #26 Jun 28, 15

Msg #1527

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #27 Jul 5, 15

Msg #1528

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #28 Jul 12, 15

Msg #1529

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #29 Jul 19, 15

Msg #1530

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #30 Jul 26, 15

Msg #1531

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #31 Aug 2, 15

Msg #1532

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #32 Aug 9, 15

Msg #1533

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #33 Aug 16, 15

Msg #1534

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #34 Aug 23, 15

Msg #1535

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #35 Aug 30, 15

Msg #1536

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #36 Sep 6, 15

Msg #1537

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #37 Sep 13, 15

Msg #1538

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #38 Sep 20, 15

Msg #1539

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #39 Sep 27, 15

Msg #1540

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #40 Oct 4, 15

Msg #1541

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #41 Oct 11, 15

Msg #1542

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #42 Oct 18, 15

Msg #1543

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #43 Oct 25, 15

Msg #1544

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #44 Nov 1, 15

Msg #1545

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #45 Nov 8, 15

Msg #1546

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #46 Nov 15, 15

Msg #1547

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #47 Nov 22, 15

Msg #1548

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #48 Nov 29, 15

Msg #1549

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #49 Dec 6, 15

Msg #1550

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #50 Dec 13, 15

Msg #1551

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #51 Dec 20, 15

Msg #1552

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

An Essay for week #52 Dec 27, 15

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Personal Testimony of Pastor Edward Rice. I was saved in 1960 at the age of eight. My father and mother were saved and founding members of Fellowship Baptist Church in Gang Mills New York. My mother was converted form Roman Catholicism, and became a Christian, she stopped praying to Mary and called upon the Lord Jesus Christ to save her. She was thus converted from Catholicism and to the Lord Jesus Christ; Mom and Dad were born again, and I was saved in revival services with Dale and Opel Linbaugh two years later. In 1995 I retired from the USAF as a systems engineer and became an ordained Baptist Preacher of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ who said “Except ye be converted …. ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.”

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In paperback at www.lulu.com/spotlight/GSBaptistChurch

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