All pleasures are not the same. One Bible teacher said that all types of pleasures fall into two categories: The one category, we pay after we receive pleasure and the other category, we pay before we receive pleasure.
Why? Because there is no pleasure without the pleasure us costing something!
The pleasure we get from sin falls into the category where we need to pay after we enjoy the pleasure.
The pleasure in Continue reading All Pleasures Fall into Two Categories:
Samuel was conceived and born during the time when Eli’s sons, Eli the priest, decided to have sex with the women who were serving at the temple. They were sleeping around and they “were treating the LORD’s offering with contempt.” (1 Samuel 2:17).
Pre-marital sex (sex before marriage) was something Samuel used to see everywhere. Being a virgin was a story of the old times. For the ministers of the temple, the house of the LORD was a place to “fatten” their fleshly desires, including Continue reading In His Presence
Are you reading this? Well, yes you are. We’re glad to tell you that today is the very day God has brought to us!
There are many people out there who did not get a chance to see this day. Maybe some could not even get up from their bed because of sickness or something. But here we’re, well and good, still breathing. The good God added this day to our life.
So, let’s Continue reading First Sunday of 2015!
Make sure you get your copies of these teaching CDs by Dr. Missy in Amharic!
Turn-A-Round, the new magazine of Appeal For Purity is also out there!
If living in Ethiopia, please contact A4P Ethiopia agent at:
Daniel,
Mob: +251-911-112457 or +251-911-201245
If living in United States, please go here http://appealforpurity.org/storefront/
Please don’t put them off after you listened to them once. Many people are contacting A4P saying, “I listened to these CDs more than five times and every time I hear the message, I always find two or more things which make me think twice and give me one of those “Aha” moments.” ///
Well, I missed the American Christmas and New Year; but above all, I missed my love, my Berhan and my lovely kids.
Of course, I also missed each and every one of you, my Facebook fans!
Yes, I’m in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I don’t want to talk about Addis’ gorgeous weather because I don’t want to hurt some people who are, as we speak, dealing with snow.
Ethiopia might be the poorest country in the world, there is Continue reading His Banner Over Me
To all of you, our Appeal for Purity friends and families, have a wonderful new 2015!!!
May the LORD Jesus Christ take 2015 for His glory!!!
May 2015 be His stage to show who He is!!!
We thank each of you for your prayers and supports throughout the past 2014! We believe that Appeal For Purity (A4P) ministry has been a blessing in your life. May every praise, honor and glory be to the LORD Jesus Christ!
May God bless you and yours! ///
We, at Appeal For Purity, are sure that you guys are aware of Modesty Competition of this year, right? If you came to this page recently and/or not aware of it yet, oh, yes we are doing Appeal For Purity’s very first time modesty competition called “The Esther’s Like Modesty.” And we are so excited about it!
We are now working on to let all of you take part in voting to the one girl to win the title, “Queen of Modesty.” She will receive cash prize of $500!
We also are so excited to announce this additional news:
Continue reading Modesty Competition: Final Round – Stay Tuned!
Turn-A-Round, the new magazine of A4P ministry is released!
Cover and back pages Continue reading Turn-A-Round
Today is a new “today”. It didn’t come before. It won’t come again. Today is a unique day.
God’s mercy is new today, everyday and certainly today, Sunday. Aren’t you excited about the fact that your LORD adds this unique day in your age? I’m!
So let’s go today to the house of worship to give thanks, praises and glories to our God together with brothers and sisters in Christ! ///
Sinful desires are printed on our DNA. That means we can’t run from them. Oops, what do we do then? We can live above them while they are hanging out with us.
How?
“. . . walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.” Galatians 5:16
The Bible tells us “to flee” (1 Corinthians 6:18; 2 Timothy 2:22) from them. The only way we can “flee” from our sinful desires is by putting them to death.