Pastor Brad Eagles Jan. 26, 2025

Gospel Worship music with Steve McCabe.

 

Living Stones Men’s Ministry is pleased to give you an opportunity to come hear a special afternoon of unique Gospel Worship music with Steve McCabe.

 

I have personally known Steve for several years and having witnessed firsthand the incredible anointing on these songs given to him from inspiration through the spirit being drawn from the Holy Scriptures.

Steve introduces the story behind the song and the anointing of the spirit is evident as he sings. He will have the lyrics on the overhead projection so you can feel free to join in.

Steve’s brother Ron McCabe, an accomplished guitarist will be providing backup.

 

• Please refer to attached poster for further details.

 

• Attendance confirmation is required by email to secure your seat by no later than Sunday Feb. 9^th. Please reply to don@living-stones.ca or by text to (902) 956-0542

Pre-register yourself and or your group providing names and numbers in your group. Seating will be limited.

Doors will be open at 1:30 for a meet and greet with music commencing at 2.00 pm.

 

• There will be no charge for this event however a free offering will be made available to all those who would like to participate.

 

About the Artist;

Steve McCabe, a native of Colchester County Nova Scotia has journeyed into gospel music leading him on a road of satisfaction.

He embraces gospel music at its fullness through the expression of his lyrics, reminding us of the promise made through the gospel of Christ.

His songs lead us into: Hearing the News and enduring the trials of life, having a love like no other, the cry from the cross and our blessed hope.

Steve is married to Shannon and lives in Belmont, N.S.  

 

Dr. Barclays Bible Study - The Book of Ephesians Part 7

Dr. Barclay with Something to Think About - APOSTASY

APOSTASY

In dictionary.com, the above is defined as: “a total desertion of or departure from one’s religion, principles, party, cause, etc.”

Webster’s Dictionary has a more defined definition: “the public abandoning of a religious faith, esp Christianity, for another”

Although this word per se is not used in the Bible [except occasionally in some newer translations] there are many examples of this activity given in Scripture. In the book of Judges, the nation of Israel is seen to honour God and then fall away time and time again; rejecting God only to become defeated and demoralized and calling on Him again to restore their prosperity. In essence, they became apostate on many occasions.

One of the better examples of apostasy is found in the Old Testament concerning King Josiah. He was the great grandson of Hezekiah, the grandson of Manassah, and the son of Amon. All these kings were increasingly apostate in their relationship to God from the more righteous Hezekiah to the evil Amon. During the reigns of these kings, worship turned more and more away from the worship of God and more toward the worship of Pagan deities - gods which had previously been banned from Judah because of the worship of God. When Josiah came to the throne following his father Amon, there were again articles of worship in the Lord’s temple to Baal, Asherah, and as well as to other gods in other places.

Now when Josiah was about 26 years old, he set about to repair the Temple in Jerusalem and there found a copy of the Book of the Law. Apparently, it was the Book of Deuteronomy, which spelled out the consequences and judgement a falling away from God would trigger. Then the king…

…made a covenant before the Lord, to follow the Lord 

and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes… 

(2 Kings 23:3)

Found in the same book and chapter, Josiah removed the articles of worship to Baal and Asherah and destroyed them. He also tore down the ritual booths, pulverized the alters that were on the roof, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. After performing these acts, and others, he:

commanded all the people, saying, 

“Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, 

as it is written in this Book of the Covenant." 

(2 Kings 23:21)

Josiah overturned the culture of his day by his actions against the shrines and temples of the gods which had crept back into the lives and actions of the people of Judah. He destroyed the alters of Baal, Ishtar, Chemosh, and Milcom, the gods of foreign lands whose alters were the places of child sacrifice.

Today, the countries which were founded on the principles of the Bible are again falling into apostasy as other influences creep into our culture and even the church. In an attempt to be inclusive, we often end up being assimilated much as the culture and peoples of Judah were doing the reigns of the kings before Josiah. Perhaps this is referring to the time mentioned in Thessalonians because many are left thinking assimilation is only being inclusive.

Let no one receive you by any means; for that Day will not come 

unless the falling away [the apostasy] comes first, 

and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition… 

(2 Thessalonians 2:3)

We seem to be living in a time when apostasy is present, when even many who profess to be Christian live otherwise and when the attempt to include all, results in apparent abandonment of principles and beliefs. It is truly an age of apostasy.

Perhaps we need another Josiah.

And that is something we should all think about.

Rev. John Spicer Jan 19, 2025

Dr. Barclays Bible Study - The Book of Ephesians Part 6

Dr. Barclay with Something to Think About - LOST

LOST

In the book of Ephesians, it states very clearly that all of us were spiritually dead “in trespasses and sins” (2:1) before we were made alive through faith in Christ. This spiritual death occurred in the very early days when man accepted the work of Satan over the direction of God. But, in addition to what is stated in Ephesians, the Bible uses many other ways to describe man’s separation from God. This in turn shows that God does not often say or do things in the same way.

In the book of 2 Corinthians we are told that carnal man is blind to God.

But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing,

whose minds the god of the age has blinded, who do not believe,

lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, 

who is the image of God, should shine on them. 

(2 Corinthians 4:3-4)

And in the book of Romans man is described this way:

But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, 

yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine 

to which you were delivered. 

(Romans 6:17)

Again in the book of John, those separated from God are referred to on this way:

And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, 

and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 

For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come into the light, 

lest his deeds should be exposed. 

(John 3:19-20)

In Mark, those separated from God are spoken of in this way:

When Jesus heard it, He said to them, 

“Those who are well have no need of a physician, 

but those who are sick.” 

(Mark 2:17)

And, Luke refers to such people in an entire chapter in his gospel as being lost and gives three parables to illustrate this. The parables of the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost son all in Luke 15.

Not only are people without God lost, but they are also described as being not truly in the world as they should be.

…at that time you were without Christ, 

being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, 

(Ephesians 2:12)

Paul, in Ephesians, also called the lost…

…children of wrath…fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind… 

having no hope and without God in the world. 

(Ephesians 2:3&12)

And he further describes us as being…

 

…delivered from the power of darkness and 

[conveyed] into the kingdom of the Son of His love… 

(Colossians 1:13) 

Now…you are no longer strangers and foreigners, 

but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God. 

(Ephesians 2:19)

From being lost, blinded, sick, slaves of sin, and children of wrath to being made alive and conveyed into the kingdom of the Son of His love all through faith in Christ and God’s mercy is something we should all be thinking about.