O What A Savior

I AM A SOLDIER

I am a soldier in the Army of My God.
The Lord Jesus Christ is my Commanding Officer.
The Holy Bible is my code of conduct.

Faith, Prayer and the Word
are my weapons of Warfare.
I have been taught by the Holy Spirit,
trained by experience,
tried by adversity,
and tested by fire.

I am a volunteer in this Army,
and I am enlisted for eternity.
I will either retire in this Army at the rapture
or die in this Army;
but I will not get out, sell out, be talked out,
I am faithful, capable, and dependable.

If My God needs me,
I am there.
If He needs me in Sunday school to teach children,
work with the youth, help adults, or just sit and learn.
He can use me,
because I am there!

I am a soldier.
I am not a baby.
I do not need to be pampered,
petted, primed up, pumped up,
picked up, or pepped up.

I am a soldier. No one has to call me,
remind me,
write me, visit me,
entice me, or lure me.

I am a soldier.
I am not a wimp.
I am in place, saluting my King,
obeying His orders, praising His name,
and building His kingdom!

I am a soldier.
No one has to send me flowers,
gifts, food,
cards, candy,
or give me handouts.

I do not need to be cuddled, cradled,
cared for, or catered to.
I am committed!

I cannot have my feelings hurt bad enough to turn me around.
I cannot be discouraged enough to turn me aside.
I cannot lose enough to cause me to quit.

When Jesus called me into this Army,
I had nothing.
If I end up with nothing,
I will still come out even.

I will win.
My God will supply all my needs.
I am more than a conqueror.
I will always triumph.
I can do all things through Christ.

I am a soldier.
Devils cannot defeat me.
People cannot disillusion me.
Weather cannot weary me.
Sickness cannot stop me.
Battles cannot beat me.
Money cannot buy me.
Governments cannot silence me,
and Hell cannot handle me!

I am a soldier.
Even death cannot destroy me.
For when my commander calls me from this battlefield,
He will promote me to a captain
and then bring me back to rule this world with Him.

I am a soldier in the Army,
and I’m marching, claiming victory.
I will not give up.
I will not turn around.

I am a soldier,
marching Heaven bound.
Here I stand!

Will you stand with me?

notes, quotes & sayings
from the pages of my Bible

Don’t just mark your Bible ~ Let it mark you

# Praise the Lord DAILY - in thought
# in word
# in deed

A sure sign of Salvation is
A Repentant Heart

Justified = Just As If I Never Sinned

In order to be filled with The Spirit,
I must be emptied of self.
Gods
Riches
At
Christ’s
Expense

Those who plan on repenting at the 11th hour
usually die at 10:30

One of the greatest tricks of Satan is
PROCRASTINATION

J = Jesus
O = others
Y = yourself

Faith requires Obedience
No Jesus - No Peace
Know Jesus - Know Peace

JESUS IS ALL YOU NEED …
You will never know He is all you need,
Until He is all you have.
And when He is all you have,
Then you will know He is ALL you need!

This book will keep you from sin
OR
Sin will keep you from this book

A.U.G. Degree
2 Timothy 2:14
Approved
Unto
God

Santification is
being set apart
for the work of God

Sin blurs our Spiritual Vision

The religion that doesn’t begin at home -
DOESN’T BEGIN!

Backsliding begins when
Knee bending stops

CHARACTER is what God knows you to be
REPUTATION is what man thinks you are

Prophecy is
History written in advance
History is
“HIS STORY”

If you are born once,
You will die twice.
If you are born twice,
You will die once”
Faith is believing
God will do what
He says He will do!

Forsaking
All
I’ll
Trust
Him

Sin
is a revolt against the authority of God
(James 4:17)

If you were arrested for being a Christian,
Would there be enough evidence to convict you?

Increase My Faith by:
PRAYER
BIBLE STUDY
FASTING

It is in times of disappointment
that you need to TRUST GOD!

Success is
discovering and
doing God’s Will

Christ must RULE in your heart
before He will RULE in your life

The problem is not that God has left me alone,
The problem is that I have left God alone ~

I am unfaithful to Him, but He is NEVER
unfaithful to me.
The total reality of the Christian life
is being IN the world,
yet not part OF the world

The 3 most important things in a church
# (1 Peter 1: 21-22) Faith
# Hope
# Love

There are “incidents” in the life of a Christian,
~ but there are NO “accidents”

Wisdom =
Enlightenment and know how
to apply revealed Spiritual Truths

You are the ONLY Bible some may ever read
The greatest testimony we have

is not what we say we have, but how we live.
Nothing in my life should
every put Jesus in a bad light!
Being in God’s Will will eliminate pride
# JESUS CHRIST offers - Light in darkness
# Strength in weakness
# Comfort in sorrow
# Joy in trouble
# Peace in conflict
# Life in death

Fear acted upon
causes unbelief
Joy is not dependent upon circumstances
but upon a right relationship with God
Prayer is a PRIVILEGE
It is the Bridge between
Heaven and Earth

P - pray
U - until
S - something
H - happens

When you are done praying
START WATCHING
to see what God is going to do

Nothing depends on our works
All depends on His Grace -
Our works are “because of”
His Grace - not “for” His Grace
Faith is always on trial ~
Whenever we have problems,
Satan tries our faith ~
Trials are opportunities for growth.
Christian Liberty carries with it
responsibility towards others

TRUE REVIVAL
CHANGES LIVES

God is in control and
Satan is on the prowl -

Be humble before God and
Be alert to Satan’s devices

Whatsoever is not of faith is sin
The appeal of satan
is always to the flesh

Only one life will soon be past,
Only what’s done for Christ will last!

The Will of God will never take you
Where the Grace of God cannot keep you
Where the Arms of God cannot support you
Where the Riches of God cannot support your needs
Where the Power of God cannot endow you.

The Will of God will never take you
Where the Spirit of God cannot work through you
Where the Wisdom of God cannot teach you
Where the Army of God cannot protect you
Where the Hands of God cannot mold you.

The Will of God will never take you
Where the Love of God cannot enfold you
Where the Mercies of God cannot sustain you
Where the Peace of God cannot calm your fears
Where the Authority of God cannot overrule you.

The Will of God will never take you
Where the Comfort of God cannot dry your tears
Where the Word of God cannot feed you
Where the Miracles of God cannot be done for you
Where the omnipresence of God cannot find you.

My Child,

You may not know me, but I know everything about you (Psalm 139.1)
I know when you sit down and when you rise up (Psalm 139.2)
I am familiar with all your ways (Psalm 139.3)
Even the very hairs on your head are numbered (Matthew 10.29-31)
For you were made in my image (Genesis 1.27)
In me you live and move and have your being (Acts 17.28)
For you are my offspring (Acts 17.28)
I knew you even before you were conceived Jeremiah (1.4-5)
I chose you when I planned creation (Ephesians 1.11-12)
You were not a mistake, for all your days are written in my book (Psalm 139.15-16)
I determined the exact time of your birth and where you would live (Acts 17.26)
You are fearfully and wonderfully made (Psalm 139.14)
I knit you together in your mother’s womb (Psalm 139.13)
And brought you forth on the day you were born (Psalm 71.6)
I have been misrepresented by those who don’t know me (John 8.41-44)
I am not distant and angry, but am the complete expression of love (1 John 4.16)
And it is my desire to lavish my love on you (1 John 3.1)
Simply because you are my child and I am your Father (1 John 3.1)
I offer you more than your earthly father ever could (Matthew 7.11)
For I am the perfect father (Matthew 5.48)
Every good gift that you receive comes from my hand (James 1.17)
For I am your provider and I meet all your needs (Matthew 6.31-33)
My plan for your future has always been filled with hope (Jeremiah 29.11)
Because I love you with an everlasting love (Jeremiah 31.3)
My thoughts toward you are countless as the sand on the seashore… (Psalms 139.17-18)
And I rejoice over you with singing (Zephaniah 3.17)
I will never stop doing good to you (Jeremiah 32.40)
For you are my treasured possession (Exodus 19.5)
I desire to establish you with all my heart and all my soul Jeremiah (32.41)
And I want to show you great and marvellous things (Jeremiah 33.3)
If you seek me with all your heart, you will find me (Deuteronomy 4.29)
Delight in me and I will give you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37.4)
For it is I who gave you those desires (Philippians 2.13)
I am able to do more for you than you could possibly imagine (Ephesians 3.20)
For I am your greatest encourager (2 Thessalonians 2.16-17)
I am also the Father who comforts you in all your troubles (2 Corinthians 1.3-4)
When you are broken-hearted, I am close to you (Psalm 34.18)
As a shepherd carries a lamb, I have carried you close to my heart (Isaiah 40.11)
One day I will wipe away every tear from your eyes (Revelation 21.3-4)
And I’ll take away all the pain you have suffered on this earth (Revelation 21.3-4)
I am your Father, and I love you even as I love my son, Jesus (John 17.23)
For in Jesus, my love for you is revealed (John 17.26)
He is the exact representation of my being (Hebrews 1.3)
He came to demonstrate that I am for you, not against you (Romans 8.31)
And to tell you that I am not counting your sins (2 Corinthians 5.18-19)
Jesus died so that you and I could be reconciled (2 Corinthians 5.18-19)
His death was the ultimate expression of my love for you (1 John 4.10)
I gave up everything I loved that I might gain your love (Romans 8.31-32)
If you receive the gift of my son Jesus, you receive me (1 John 2.23)
And nothing will ever separate you from my love again (Romans 8.38-39)
Come home and I’ll throw the biggest party heaven has ever seen (Luke 15.7)
I have always been Father, and will always be Father (Ephesians 3.14-15)
My question is “Will you be my child?” (John 1.12-13)
I am waiting for you (Luke 15.11-32)

Love, Your Dad.

Almighty God

The following timeline of Christianity summarizes some of the most important events in Christianity since its founding about 2,000 years ago. (Events in light grey are non-religious events included for historical context.)

c. 4 BC	Birth of Jesus
c. 26 AD	John the Baptist begins ministry
c. 27 AD	Jesus begins ministry
c. 30 AD	Crucifixion of Jesus
c. 35	Conversion of Paul
c. 44	Martyrdom of James
c. 46-48	Paul’s first missionary journey
c. 49	Council of Jerusalem
c. 50-52	Paul’s second missionary journey
c. 51-52	First and Second Thessalonians written
c. 53-57	Paul’s third missionary journey
c. 57	Letter to the Romans written
c. 59-62	Paul imprisoned in Rome
c. 60	Andrew martyred by crucifixion in Achaia (Greece).
c. 66-67	Second Timothy written
c. 68	Martyrdom of Paul
70	Fall of Jerusalem
c. 90-95	John exiled on island of Patmos
c. 95	Book of Revelation written
c. 96	Clement of Rome’s Letter to the Corinthians written
c. 120	Didache written
202	Christians persecuted under Septimus Severus
211	Christians tolerated under Emperor Antoninus Caracalla
222	Christians favored Emperor Alexander Severus
230	Origen’s On First Principles
235	Christians persecuted under Emperor Maximin the Thracian
238	Christians tolerated under Emperor Gordian III
244	Christians favored under Emperor Philip the Arabian
251	Cyprian’s Unity of the Catholic Church
254	Death of Origen
303	Diocletian orders burning of Christian books and churches
312	Emperor Constantine’s conversion to Christianity
313	Edict of Milan establishes official toleration of Christianity
325	Council of Nicea
336	Death of Constantine
354	Birth of Augustine
367	Athanasius lists all 27 books of NT
379	Basil the Great dies
380	Christianity made official religion of Roman Empire
381	Council of Constantinople
386	Augustine converts to Christianity
389	Gregory of Nazianzus dies
395	Gregory of Nyssa dies
c. 400	Jerome’s Vulgate (translation of the Greek Bible into Latin)
407	John Chrysostom dies
411	Council of Carthage condemns Donatists
417	Pope Innocent I condemns Pelagianism
420	Death of Jerome
430	Death of Augustine
431	Council of Ephesus
451	Council of Chalcedon
787	Second Council of Nicea
950	Olga of Russia converts to Christianity
1054	Great Schism between East and West
1093	Anselm becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
1095	Council of Clermont: Pope Urban II proclaims First Crusade
1098	Crusaders take Antioch from Turks
1099	Crusaders recapture Jerusalem from Turks
1122	Concordat of Worms
1141	Peter Abelard condemned
1144	Fall of Edessa (crusader state)
1187	Fall of Jerusalem to Turks
1215	Fourth Lateran Council
1309	"Babylonian Captivity" (until 1377)
1337	Hundred Years’ War (until 1453)
1378	Great Western Schism (until 1423)
1409	Council of Pisa
1413-14	Lollard rebellion
1415	Council of Constance. Martyrdom of Jan Hus.
1420	Crusade against Hussites
1431	Joan of Arc martyred
1431-49	Council of Basel
1438-45	Council of Ferrara-Florence
1453	Fall of Constantinople to Turks
1478	Spanish Inquisition founded by Ferdinand and Isabella
1483	Birth of Martin Luther
1492	Expulsion of Jews from Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella
1505	Luther becomes a monk
1517	Luther posts 95 Theses
1521	Luther excommunicated
1530	Augsburg Confession
1534	Henry VIII’s Act of Supremacy
1536	Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion
1541	Colloquy of Regensburg
1555	Peace of Augsburg
1559	Elizabeth I’s Act of Uniformity
1590	Michelangelo completes the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome
1609	Baptist Church founded by John Smyth
1611	King James (Authorized) Version of the Bible produced
1729	Beginnings of Methodism, led by John Wesley
1738	John Wesley feels his "heart strangely warmed" during a reading of Luther’s preface to Romans on Aldersgate Street in London
1775	American Wars of Independence begin
1783	America wins independence from Britain
1793	Louis XVI executed
1797	Second Awakening begins
1798	Pope Pius VI is prisoner of France
1799	Schleiermacher writes Speeches
1801	Cane Ridge Revival
1804	Napoleon becomes emperor
1807	Hegel writes Phenomenology of the Spirit
1808	French occupy Rome
1810	Mexico wins independence
1812-14	British-American War
1814	Reorganization of the Jesuits
1816	American Bible Society established
1822	Schleiermacher writes Christian Faith
1826	American Society for the Promotion of Temperance founded
1830	Joseph Smith produces Book of Mormon
1834	Spanish Inquisition officially abolished
1838	Abolition of slavery in the British Caribbean
1841	David Livingstone to Africa
1845	Methodists and Baptists split over the issue of slavery
1846	Pope Pius IX (until 1878)
1854	Dogma of Immaculate Conception of Mary
1859	Darwin publishes Origin of the Species
1861-65	American Civil War
1861	Presbyterians divide over the issue of slavery
1869	First Vatican Council
1870	Dogma of Papal Infallibility
1872	Moody begins preaching
1875	Mary Baker Eddy writes Science and Health
1882	Neitzsche declares "God is dead"
1895	Five Fundamentals
1900	Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams
1906	Azusa Street revival
1908	Henry Ford introduces the Model T
1910	World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh
1914	Assemblies of God founded
1914-18	World War I
1917	Russian Revolution
1919	Prohibition passed into law
1925	Scopes "Monkey" trial
1932	Barth’s Church Dogmatics
1939	Hitler invades Poland and sparks WWI
1945	Nag Hammadi Library discovered in Egypt; US drops atomic bombs on Japan
1947	India wins independence from U.K.
1948	World Council of Churches founded
1950	Papal encyclical Humani generis
1956	First issue of Christianity Today
1960	Birth control pill approved by FDA
1961	First human in space Papal encyclical Mater et Magistra
1962-65	Second Vatican Council
1963	MLK’s "I Have a Dream" speech
1968	Papal encyclical Humanae vitae
1969	First man on the moon
1971	Intel introduces the microprocessor
1973	Roe vs. Wade
1987-88	Televangelist scandals
1989	First woman ordained in an apostolic-succession church (the Protestant Episcopal church). Fall of the Berlin Wall.
1997	Birth of the internet

Sources

1. Earle E. Cairns, Christianity Through the Centuries (Zondervan, 1996).
2. Justo Gonzalez, The Story of Christianity (Prince Press, 1999).
3. Kenneth Scott Latourette, A History of Christianity, Vol. I: to A.D. 1500 (4th ed., Prince Press, 2000).
4. Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service, 2004.