Front Line Action

John speaks of the need for believers to engage in efforts to impact the public consciousness, including through offering their lives to enter the battlefield of working for the secular mass media, if God so leads them.

A Strategy for Christians in Media

John McCandlish Phillips laments the self exclusion of believers from the secular media and outlines a strategy for Christians to consider from his experience at The New York Times.

A Call to Service to God Over Self

John gives a clarion call to service to God over self. His talk includes both a starkly honest picture of what that service entails, and a clear view of the path most Christians choose instead.

What to Understand Before Water Baptism

Sadly, many more people are baptized than really ought to be baptized. And far too many individuals receive water baptism short of an intention that reasonably matches God’s intention regarding it. Water baptism signifies a separation of one thing from something else forever…

Be in the Center of God's Will

John gives a short, hard hitting message on how to get into the center of God’s will and stay there. This is based on a “raw” tape made for radio broadcast, given on September 17, 1971.

Sacrifice is Indispensable to Advance God's Work

John speaks on the need for sacrifice to build up God’s Church. There is a deliberate, creative sacrifice that’s almost instinctive to those who are engaged with the Lord for His Body, the Church. And he gives examples.
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Take Courage in this Early Season

John speaks of how we are in an early season yet of the recovery of the Church as His Body, in which the potential of every single believer can begin to be realized. Being there before the crowd takes a certain amount of courage and a certain amount of discipline and much persistence and constancy.
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Think Less About Provisions Than About Purposes

John speaks about how God’s provisions promised to us are not primary, but His purposes for us are. If we seek his purposes, we won’t cheat ourselves out of the most that we can be in Christ. As we go for what God has for us to be and to be about, He will provide in His own way.
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Power to Become a Son of God

John gives an invitation to anyone who had not yet to become a Christian to receive Jesus as his personal Savior. Jesus is God’s gift to us, not only to forgive our sins but also to give us power to live right.

Let God Be Your Commander in Chief

John gives an exhortation to give God the chance without hindrance, without preconceptions, without prescriptions as to how He will order our lives ahead.

War is Waged With Words

The contest between the Lord and the devil as it affects men is waged largely with words. All through history, the Lord and the devil have made their contest upon the consciousness of men by words. Satan is aware of the critical importance of the possession and control and especially the mass distribution of his word and his counsel. And Christians in America at this time are failing in keeping the circulation of the word of God up in circulation.
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Who are the Willing People of God?

John speaks about God's desire through human history for a people among whom He could dwell so that all the nations of the earth may see and know God. The question is are we as born-again Christians ourselves willing to become the willing people of God.
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The River of God’s Purpose

The stream of God’s purpose, which began back in the thin and perilous places, all hidden from men, is widening into a river whose waters will gladden the hearts of [men and women] brought into a liberating relationship to the Savior.... Will you get into the river of God’s purpose? Or will you watch it go by?