What Happened To The Altar?

In our churches in days of old,
Preachers preached God's Word.
The Holy Spirit worked in hearts
When Bible preaching was heard.

The altars back then were filled
With people getting hearts right.
Tears of repentance were shed.
This was such a glorious sight!

Back then we had revival meetings
That lasted for a week or two.
Souls got saved, and hearts got right
Before those meetings were through.

Our churches still have altars,
And we have Bible preaching today,
But how many respond to altar calls?
How many people weep and pray?

Alas, our lives are now too busy,
And life's pressures are so strong,
We do not have the extra time
For revival meetings that are long.

Do we still have family altars
In our Christian homes of today?
Do we worship God as a family?
Do we read God's Word and pray?

What happened to the altar?
Where are the repentant tears?
We've lost interest in revival
In these last several years.

Christians, let us rededicate
Our lives to Christ, our Lord.
Let's have revival in our hearts
And worship God in one accord.

Jan Bagwell

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Private Decisions

Private decisions are ones you make
Just between almighty God and you.
Those decisions may not stay private
When they may affect others too.

God told Jonah to preach in Nineveh,
But Jonah took sail the other way.
Jonah made a bad private decision.
He made a decision to disobey.

Jonah's consequences went public.
The ship was storm-tossed to and fro.
Jonah told the captain of the ship,
"Cast me overboard and end your woe!"

Jonah was swallowed by a whale.
Inside the whale, he prayed once more.
God heard him, and Jonah obeyed God
After the whale threw him up on shore.

When we make our private decisions,
Let us let God direct our way.
Let us make the right decision
To obey God and serve Him each day.

Jan Bagwell

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As we Christians strive to be more influenced by God’s kingdom than by this world, we’re reminded we will sometimes slip, but ‘if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness’ (1 John 1:9).”
 

God Happens

God happens,
in the hardest of hearts
He brings new beginning
fresh spring-like starts.

God happens,
in the broken down soul
He brings reconciliation
makes everyone whole.

God happens,
in the darkest of spirits
He brings transformation
every sin He acquits.

God happens,
in the worst of us
He restores generations
when in Him ~ they trust.

Jan Bagwell

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Those who look behind will never see beyond.”

“I believe Jesus wasn't thinking about miracle when He performed it.
He's just doing normal activities as he did in His heavenly kingdom.”

Will Jesus Return This Year?

Another year has come and gone.
The Christians are still here,
Waiting for Christ to return.
Will He come back this year?

Will Jesus find us working
To get others into His fold?
Are we all making sure that
His salvation story is told?

We are waiting and listening
For that great trumpet sound.
We get excited thinking about
Our feet just leaving the ground!

Maybe it will be this year
That we'll meet Him in the air.
He'll take His children home
To live with our Savior there.

"Come up hither, my children!"
Maybe Jesus Christ will say.
Hopefully it will be this year!
We look forward to that day!

Jan Bagwell

God Bless

“The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there. No, it is for a larger, homelier, less self-conscious cast of people who understand they are sinners because they have experienced the yaw and pitch of moral struggle.” I am a sinner save by grace !!

Trust Fund

Got me a trust fund,
use it every day
I can always count on it
especially when I pray.

God is the grantor,
His assets are all mine
it's just like having
an eternal credit line.

I withdraw from it often,
but I never take a loss
for the rates are based on
the finished work of the cross.

Jesus is my inheritance,
I trust Him with all my heart
for I am the beneficiary
of the grace that He imparts.

My trust fund is secure,
the dividends keep growing
I am very confident . . .
to heaven ~ I'll be going!

Jan Bagwell

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“Jesus was the original street healer. He traveled the streets of Israel on foot, staying wherever He found lodging. During His travels He told people the secrets of their hearts, healed all who were sick and demon-possessed, raised the dead and shared the mysteries of the kingdom of God. This was His lifestyle and it could be yours.”

Kingdom of God

“If we only had eyes to see and ears to hear and wits to understand, we would know that the Kingdom of God in the sense of holiness, goodness, beauty is as close as breathing and is crying out to born both within ourselves and within the world; we would know that the Kingdom of God is what we all of us hunger for above all other things even when we don’t know its name or realize that it’s what we’re starving to death for. The Kingdom of God is where our best dreams come from and our truest prayers. We glimpse it at those moments when we find ourselves being better than we are and wiser than we know. We catch sight of it when at some moment of crisis a strength seems to come to us that is greater than our own strength. The Kingdom of God is where we belong. It is home, and whether we realize it or not, I think we are all of us homesick for it.”
Jan Bagwell
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The Fault

The Fault

He caught his brother in a fault, and quickly launched a full assault.
He felt that he was duty-bound to spread the knowledge all around.
And soon it seemed the whole world knew about the fault, as rumors flew.
Reactions to the news were split. Some disbelieved--but bit by bit
The church of God was torn apart by sins that grieved the Father's heart.

If only he had gone alone, when first his brother's fault was known,
And as they both knelt down to pray, showed him the error of his way - -
His brother might have sought God's face,
 and asked forgiveness through God's grace.
The church would not have suffered shame,
 nor brought dishonor to God's Name.
Instead, by faith, it would have grown,
 as to the world God's love was shown.

Jan Bagwell                                                                    

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Please Pray for
Pastor David Bagwell , He as TMJ and Sinus or Flu
Brother Billy Phillps as a blood cloth
Hazel Bagwell broke her wrist she is 95 years old
Brother Stan Cape gave his heart to Jesus ,
Nadine Stvan
Scott Bagwell