In the Beginning .com

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Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

"In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that every one who commits sin is the slave of sin. Now a slave does not remain permanently in his master's house, but a son does. If then the Son shall make you free, you will be free indeed." (John 8:34-36 WEY)

1 Timothy 1:5  But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. (NASU)

John 13:34  "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
35  "By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." (NASU)

  • What does it mean to follow Jesus?
  • What does 'filled with the Holy Spirit' mean?
  • What is a 'Christian' according to the Bible?
  • What is the 'kingdom of God'?
  • What is 'fellowship' and the 'church'?
  • Is what we see now in the organized 'church' biblical?

If these are the type of questions you seek to have answered, then hopefully you have come to the right place! Learn what people like D. L. Moody, Charles G. Finney, Smith Wigglesworth, and others really believed. Sadly, many Christians do not know what most of these great saints of the past believed, and what their personal experiences were with God. I hope and pray that some of the following articles will help take away any veil that might still be robbing from you what God truly desires and has for your life!

River of His Delight JPG
River of His Delight
by Mike De Lorenzo
My Father's House Ministries
Used by permission

Please help in Emily's 1850 mile bike/run to build wells in India

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Articles and Books

Why God used D.L. Moody
by R.A. Torrey

Personal Memoirs of Revival - chapters 2 and 3
autobiography by Charles G. Finney

Enduement for Service - chapter 8
by D.L. Moody

Power from On High - chapters 1 thru 3
by Charles G. Finney

Is the Current Church Structure Biblical?
by Curtis Lee Hall

The Great Ecclesiastical Conspiracy
by George Davis, Michael Clark, and Kirk Pearson

The Priesthood of All Believers
by Karl Ketcherside

Escape from Churchianity
by Chip Brogden

The House Church Movement
by Loren Smith

The Ministry of One-Anothering
by Chip Brogden

The Oberlin Evangelist on Prayer for the Holy Spirit
by Charles G. Finney

Secret Power - chapter 2
by D.L. Moody

Three Fires - from Revival Addresses
by R.A. Torrey

Ever Increasing Faith
by Smith Wigglesworth

1965 Prophecy by Stanley Frodisham
a friend of Smith Wigglesworth

1968 Prophecy by 90 Year Old Woman in Norway
What things will happen before the return of Jesus?

Some Writings of Catherine Booth
of the Salvation Army

"A Snack We Call Supper", an article on the Lord's Supper
by David Servant

"House Churches", an article on a biblical alternative to institutional churches
by David Servant

An Account of the Revival of Religion in Northampton in 1740 - 1742
by Jonathan Edwards

Tongues of Fire and the Fulness of God
by John Piper

The Chocolate Soldier
by C.T. Studd

Sayings of C.T. Studd

Absolute Surrender and Other Addresses
by Andrew Murray

Visions Beyond the Veil
by H.A. Baker

The Practice of the Presence of God
Brother Lawrence

The Price of God's Miracle Working Power
by A.A. Allen

How I Became a Christian
by Curtis Lee Hall

The Book of Ecclesiastes
from the Old Testament of the Bible

The Gospel of John
from the New Testament of the Bible

Divorce in the Eyes of a Twelve Year Old
by Arielle Matiah Hall - a victim

Chief Joseph's Surrender Speech and Story
One of my heroes, 1840 - 1904

What is Abortion?
Statement of Brenda Pratt Shafer, R.N.

A Child's Voice
written by Ann Josten

Fox's Book of Martyrs
by John Fox

Isaiah 61:1  The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, Because the LORD has anointed me To bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to captives And freedom to prisoners;
2  To proclaim the favorable year of the LORD And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn,
3  To grant those who mourn in Zion, Giving them a garland instead of ashes, The oil of gladness instead of mourning, The mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

Articles and Books from OUTSIDE of InTheBeginning.com

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The Pastor: Where Did He Come From?
by Frank Viola

Church is not in the Bible
from Gathered in His Name

Lie #1 - Ask Jesus into Your Heart
(and the importance of water baptism)
by Andrew Strom

Lie #2 - Church Buildings
by Andrew Strom

Lie #3 - The One Man Pastor System
by Andrew Strom

Lie #4 - Tithing
by Andrew Strom

Lie #5 - Prosperity and Seed-Faith
by Andrew Strom

Lie #6 - Bible Colleges
by Andrew Strom

Great Healing Revivalist - How God's Power Came
by Andrew Strom and Larry Magnello
Smith Wigglesworth, John G. Lake, Maria Woodworth-Etter, John Alexander Dowie and others, plus the Enigma of William Branham...

MP3 Audio Sermons by Andrew Strom

The "Out of Church" Christians
Book by Andrew Strom

The Coming Great Reformation
Book by Andrew Strom

Download Articles and Books

Ever Increasing Faith - 118kb
book by Smith Wigglesworth

Personal Memoirs of Revival - 375kb
Autobiography of Charles G. Finney

Power from On High - 81kb
by Charles G. Finney

Some Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion in New England - 188kb
by Jonathan Edwards

Visions Beyond the Veil - 70kb
by H.A. Baker

Ben Hur - A Tale of the Christ - 454kb
by General Lew Wallace (1880)

The Pilgrim's Progress - 126kb
by John Bunyan (1942 edition)

The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life - 162kb
By Hannah Whitall Smith

Absolute Surrender and Other Addresses - 73kb
by Andrew Murray

Fox's Book of Martyrs - 430kb
by John Fox

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Quotes

"The right kind of evangelical order cannot be exhibited among all sorts of people, but those who are seriously determined to be Christians and confess the gospel with hand and mouth, must enroll themselves by name and meet apart in one house, for prayer, for reading, to baptize, to take the Sacrament, and exercise other Christian works. With such order it would be possible for those who did not behave in a Christian manner to be known, reproved, restored, or excluded, according to the rule of Christ (Matt. 18:15). Here also they could, in common, subscribe alms, which would be willingly given and distributed among the poor, according to the example of Paul (2 Cor. 9:1-12). Here it would not be necessary to have much or fine singing. Here a short and simple way of baptism and the Sacrament could be practiced, and all would be according to the Word and in love. But I cannot yet order and establish such an assembly...In the meantime I will call, excite, preach, help forward it, until Christians take the Word so in earnest, that they will themselves find how to do it and continue in it."
- Reformer Martin Luther, written in 1526

"We stink more of the world than we stink of of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches today would feel more at home in a movie house rather than in a house of prayer, more afraid of holy living than of sinning, know more about money than magnifying Christ in our bodies. It is so compromised that holiness and living a sin-free life is heresy to the modern church. The modern church is, quite simply, just the world with a Christian T-shirt on!"
- Nicky Cruz

" The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, 'apart from Me ye can do nothing.' So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!"
- Watchman Nee

"A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God."
- Leonard Ravenhill

"There is a great deal of worldliness, and earthly-mindedness, and covetousness among the professing Christians of our day. They are worshipers of the golden calf! O sirs! the world is all shadow and vanity. The world is like Jonah's gourd--a man may sit under its shadow for a time, but it soon decays and dies.

The main reason why many professors dote upon the world, is because they are not acquainted with a greater glory. If the heart of man is not filled with God--it will be filled with the world, the flesh and the devil."
- Thomas Brooks, 1670

"If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all."
- Leonard Ravenhill

"By affliction, the Lord teaches His people to sit loose from this world, and to be prepared for eternity. By affliction, God shows His people the vanity, vexation, emptiness, weakness, and nothingness of all created things; and the choiceness, preciousness and sweetness of communion with Himself."
- Unknown

"It is a costly and a suffering thing to come up against the religious system that has ' settled down ' here. It is far more costly than coming up against the naked world itself. The religious system can be more ruthless and cruel and bitter; it can be actuated by all those mean things, contemptible things, prejudices and suspicious things that you will not even find in decent people in the world. It is costly to go on to the heavenlies, it is painful; but it is the way of the pioneer, and it has to be settled that that is how it is."
- T. Austin Sparks

"It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces."
- Samuel Chadwick


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A RIDDLE
What is greater than God, More evil than the devil, The poor have it, The rich need it, And if you eat it, you'll die?
ANSWER

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Put me like a seal over your heart, Like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death, Jealousy is as cruel as the grave;
Its flashes are flashes of fire, The very flame of the LORD.
Many waters cannot quench love, Nor will rivers overflow it;
If a man were to give all the riches of his house for love, it would be judged a price not great enough.

- Song of Songs 8:6-7

Nico and Santhea's wedding picture
My friends Nico and Santhea's wedding in Namibia Africa, February 2nd 2008
God bless their marriage and lives!