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“Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.” —Psalm 127:1 There are many beautiful homes in this area, but as I travel up and down the streets, I wonder how many homes are in those houses. It’s one thing to build a house and it’s another thing to build a home, and only God can build a home. Let it be said of every dad as Joshua said, “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” But determination is not enough without the Lord, without the Lord’s power, without the Lord’s strength. Now I believe that Satan’s desire and Satan’s plan to destroy America is wrapped up in the matter of the home. The Bible tells us in the very beginning God established the home!  He created the man and the man was alone, and God, seeing the loneliness of that man, created the first woman and stood the woman by his side. Sir, husband, father, your home is your most precious and priceless possession.  Your home and your family is more important than your job, than your career, than the amount of money you make, the amount of pleasure you may achieve in life. The most important thing in life is your family! If you’re going to have a home and a family that honors God and brings happiness to you, you must have Christ at home in your house. HUMAN LOVE FAILS BUT GOD’S LOVE IS FOREVER.

Keep the Faith

Monday, May 06, 2019

by Dr. Paul Chappell

“For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.”

2 Timothy 4:6–8

When we were preparing for the start of West Coast Baptist College, we did a great deal of research into other Christian educational institutions. One statement, now almost four hundred years old, struck me as especially strong (with the original spelling): “Let every Student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well, the maine end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life (John 17:3) and therefore to lay Christ in the bottome, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and Learning. And seeing the Lord only giveth wisedome, Let every one seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seeke it of him (Prov. 2:3).”

The original motto of the school with that statement was, “Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae” which is Latin for ”Truth for Christ and the Church.” You would think that any school which tried to do that would stay on track. But the school is Harvard. Today the shield only says “Veritas”—which means “Truth.” But they have abandoned the truth that was once the bedrock of the school. Simply having the truth and believing the right things is not enough. We must make a commitment to maintaining those things, no matter what it takes. “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 1:3).

Today's Growth Principle: 

Faith does not stay on its own—it must be maintained, kept and held tightly, or it will vanish away.