The Connie Giordano Show

Remember The Lord

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 12:59:43 -0500

"Across the ages there has always been a suffering Church. Today as well, in many parts of the world, allegiance to JESUS means suffering, discrimination, and ridicule. The letter of Peter is especially helpful for all who know such sufferings, or for those whose personal experience of suffering has caused doubts. The first letter of Peter helps us see God's prescription for thise who suffer. It calls for holiness, for submission, and for acceptance of the amazing truth that suffering can be a gift from God." (The Illustrated Concise Bible Handbook)

What Kind Of Service Are You Giving To God?

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 14:04:37 -0500

"It is our privilege to serve the Lord in all things. It is ours to please the Lord in loosing the latchet of a shoe; and to enjoy the expression of His favor therein. The servant of God is not serving at the same time another master; he has not been hired for occasional service; he abides in the service of his God, and cannot be about anything but his Master's business; he eats, he drinks, he sleeps, he walks, he discourses, he finds recreation, all by the way of serving God." (Treasury Of David)

How Is Your Faith?

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 13:38:47 -0500

"Faith has given way to feeling. Where once faith was so mighty and so prevalent that it had to be inquired about, now feelings prredominate and must be accounted for. What is the result? We place more emphasis upon this world, the things of the world, and the things which are temporal. We live more and more in the realm of the seen, rather than the unseen. We look more to the material world than to the spiritual." (Hebrews - Everitt Fjordbak)

Fidelity To The Truth Is Necessary Now

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 11:04:07 -0500

"The early Hebrew Christians found it very difficult openly to confess Christ; for their unbelieving countrymen treated all who did so as renegades from Israel, and apostates from Israel's God. But fidelity to the truth was necessary then, and it is equally necessary now. Every believer is bound publicly to confess Christ. He must do so for Christ's sake, for his own sake, and for the sake of his fellow men." (The Pulpit Commentary)

The Opened Way Into The Very Presence Of God

Fri, 06 Sep 2024 12:54:06 -0500

"In the Hebrew sanctuary, there were three degrees of approach to God. The outer court was for the general congregation; the holy place for the officiating priests; and the holiest of all for the high priest, and was so rigidly limited to him that neither priest in the holy place, nor worshipper in the outer court, must accompany him, or the glories of the Shekinah would have consumed him. But it is far otherwise now. Our 'great High Priest' has opened the way to the mercy seat in heaven, and is now present at the right hand of God, so that any Jew or Gentile may at once enter into the Divine Presence, and with holy boldness or joyous freedom utter all he thinks to his reconciled Father." (James Nisbet Commentary)

Someone Is Praying For You

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 18:13:20 -0500

"All true believers live with Him - live with Him in a larger sense than would have been before or otherwise possible. Life is enlarged and glorified by the risen life of the once crucified Savior. Christ dieth no more: then we have an ever-living intercessor. Christ dieth no more: then we have an abiding helper. Christ dieth no more: then we need no other sacrifice and no other priest. Christ dieth no more: then we need not fear, for the Good Shepherd will ever watch over His sheep. and lead them in pastures of delight." (The Preacher's Homiletic Commentary)

Will You ALSO Go Away?

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 18:52:31 -0500

"Reader, in what state art thou? Hast thou gone back from Christ, or art thou going back? Wilt thou go? Thou, whom He has redeemed by HIs blood - thou, whom He has upheld by His power, and fed by His providence - thou, into whose wounded soul He has poured the balm of pardoning mercy - thou, whom He has adopted into the heavenly family - thou, whom He has comforted in so many tribulations and adversities - thou, whose multiplied offenses He has freely and fully pardoned; wilt thou go away?" (Adam Clarke)

How In The World Did I Lose My Hearing?

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:34:03 -0500

"Likewise, the Church is filled with people who ought to be spiritual adults by now, but they are still spiritual infants because they have not been exercised by the Word of God. For this reason, there are large numbers of believers who, like infants, have put a lot of spiritual poison into their spiritual mouths that is not safe for consumption. Not only will the mixing of truth with false doctrine weaken their foundation and minimize their ability to produce fruit that is eternal, but it could also eventually pull them so far off course that it leads them to a 'shipwreck' in various areas of their lives." (Rick Renner - "How To Keep Your Head On Straight In A World Gone Crazy")

How Can I Be Sure That I Will Make It To The End?

Sat, 04 May 2024 05:26:36 -0500

"The early Hebrew Christians found it very difficult openly to confess Christ; for their unbelieving countrymen treated all who did so as renegrades from Israel, and apostates from Israel's God. But fidelity to the truth was necessary then, and it is equally necessary now. Every believer is bound publicly to confess Christ. He must do so for Christ's sake, for his own sake, and for the sake of his fellow men." (The Pulpit Commentary)

Don't Tell God, "No!"

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 16:25:58 -0500

"The Holy Spirit speaks to us concerning sin, righteousness, and judgment. If we ignore His voice, our hearts will increasingly grow hard and unyielding until they are no longer sensitive to God's Word or the desires of the Spirit. Commitment to truth and to righteous living will no longer be a priority, but we will more and more seek pleasure in the ways of the world rather than God's ways. The Holy Spirit warns us that God will not go on pleading with us indefinitely if we harden our hearts in rebellion. There is a point of no return." (Life In The Spirit Study Bible)

Drifting - Without Noticing It - Back Into The World

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:50:34 -0500

"The danger is ever present: 'lest at any time.' It is an exhortation to the Church today, lest the seed of the Word should fall on stony ground. It would bear no fruit, for the fowls of the air come and devour the seed. By careless living, the same fate that threatened the Early Church could befall us. For most Christians, the danger is not one of plunging back into sin, but of drifting without noticing it, back into the world. Very few would deliberately turn their backs upon God and go into sin; rather, it is a day-by-day experience of slipping father and farther away from the Lord Jesus. To heed is to live, but to drift is to die." (Hebrews - Everitt M. Fjordbak)

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No Higher Idea Of Omnipotence Than This

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 16:34:33 -0500

"God is our maker, our preserver, and the giver of all our mercies. On Him we ever have been and must be dependent for all good, and to Him we should be habitually devoted." (Family Bible Notes)

Turning Back To An Inferior Substitute

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 14:19:41 -0500

"It is easy to lose our vision. It is so easy to permit time to crowd us, to become so busy in the affairs and the cares of this life, even in the work of the Lord, that we lose our vision of Who JESUS really is. How carfeul we mst be that we do not lose that first touch, that first love, that first sweet, precious communication with our Lord. That is what happened to the Hebrew Christians." (Hebrews Commentary by Everitt Fyordbak)

No Matter How Great Or Many The Dangers May Be

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 06:30:44 -0500

"No matter how great or many the dangers may be, yet God always has ways to deliver His." (Geneva Bible Footnotes)

How To Stop The Enemy From Rejoicing

Sat, 04 Nov 2023 15:38:47 -0500

"It is the duty and interest of the people of God not to be afraid of evil tidings, not to be afraid of hearing bad news; and, when they do, not to be put into confusion by it and into an amazing expectation of worse and worse, but whatever happens, whatever threatens, to be able to say, with blessed Paul, None of these things move me, neither will I fear, though the earth be removed." (Matthew Henry)

Not Sidetracked By The Way Of Compromise

Sat, 14 Oct 2023 04:58:33 -0500

"If you desire to be for the Lord and stand for Him, see to it that you are not sidetracked by the way of compromise. While you go through the world, men will say to you, 'Weknow as much about it as you. We are as true Christians as you.' Yet they are going on with the world, endorsing the world, speaking the things the world loves, introducing those false things which are sweeping professing Christianity. By the grace of God, let 'no compromise' be our watchword. Be obedient to the instructions that God has given us in His word." (Writings of F.B. Hole)

Who Can You Trust In Today’s World?

Sat, 23 Sep 2023 12:25:15 -0500

"What we need is help, - help powerful, efficient, constant: we need a very present help in trouble. What a mercy that we have it in our God. Our hope is in Jehovah, for ur help comes from Him. Help is on the road, and will not fail to reach us in due time, for He Who sends it to us was never known to be too late. Jehovah Who created all things is equal to every emergency; heaven and earth are at the disposal of Him Who made them, therefore let us be very joyful in our infinite helper." (The Treasury Of David)

You Can Walk In The Path Of Your Choosing

Sat, 26 Aug 2023 12:36:48 -0500

"There are the 'ways" of men, and the 'ways" of God; the 'paths' of sin, and the 'paths' of righteousness: there are Thy ways, and there are my ways; Thine the ways of truth, mine the ways of error; Thine which are good in Thine eyes, and mine which are good in mine eyes; Thine which lead to heaven, mine which lead to Hell. Wherefore, shew me Thy ways, O LORD; teach me Thy paths, lest I mistake mine own ways for Thine; yea, lead me in Thy truth, and teach me, lest I turn out of Thy ways into mine own..." (The Treasury Of David)

What Are You Doing Sleeping At A Time Like This?

Fri, 04 Aug 2023 14:49:05 -0500

"A Christian is always in danger, and therefore should ever be on the watch; but the danger is greater at some times and under some circumstances...If a Christian would be secure, he must be on his guard; and the more his danger, the greater vigilance is needful for his security." (Matthew Henry)

Putting On What Should Be Left Off

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 16:35:32 -0500

"In the great spiritual transformation experienced by every believer, there is a twofold and coincident operation - the putting off of the old and the putting on of the new; there is an act of renunciation and unclothing and an act of reception and investment. This change is complete; it pervades the whole man, ruling every power, fashioning the character, and inspiring the entire life. This change is divine in its origin and outworking." (The Preacher's Homiletic Commentary)