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Ten Helpful Thoughts in Building a Godly Marriage
I am very thankful for my wife, Kim. We have had 43 wonderful years together as a married couple. In our Biblical counseling program here at Hope Biblical Counseling Center we counsel many people about their marriage. A good marriage is not just something that happens it is worked at. Below are some helpful thoughts on how to work at and build a godly marriage.
1. Make sure you understand your choice in a mate for marriage is a spiritual choice not an emotional choice. Marriage is a lifelong commitment, therefore, it is a very important decision. The description of a godly marriage takes place in Ephesians 5:17-33. It describes two saved, Spirit controlled people. Nothing else works.
Ephesians 5:17-33, Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. (18) And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; (19) Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; (20) Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; (21) Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. (22) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. (23) For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. (24) Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. (25) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; (26) That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, (27) That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. (28) So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. (29) For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: (30) For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. (31) For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. (32) This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. (33) Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
3. Make sure you learn how to communicate properly. Communication is the main problem or the starter of a problem in about 99 percent of marriages. In essence, Christians do not talk to one another, and they certainly don’t talk about spiritual things in their lives. They rarely talk about anything. Young lovers rarely have a communication problem. They seem to be able to talk about anything. Somehow that ability often vanishes after they are married. Lack of communication is almost always a problem for couples who come for marriage counseling. If it is not lack of communication, it is the wrong communication. Ephesians 4:29 and 31, “Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. Let ALL bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice”. Folks this is a powerful portion of scripture, did you notice “evil speaking”. It says to, “Put away all evil speaking”. Most evil speaking comes from other things in this verse. Things like bitterness, wrath, and anger. By the way it says to put away all these too! Communication under pressure of anger and shouting is not the approach. However, that is the approach most professing Christians use in direct disobedience to God’s Word. One of the reasons that many children who grow up in Christian homes today do not end up living for God is because of the anger of their parents. Problems and differences in a marriage are not dangerous, not being able to communicate the differences, or problem areas is dangerous. Let’s talk about how we should communicate. Ephesians 4:15, “But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ”. The Bible teaches that we should “speak the truth in love”. One thing to bear in mind, is that the more truth you speak, the more love you should use in conveying that truth. Truth is a sharp two edged sword, so we use it carefully.
4. Make sure you are not acting like a child. Adults are led by Biblical principles not feelings. Children are motivated by feelings. That is their primary rule of law. That being said, a person has never really entered adulthood if they have not learned to follow Biblical principles in spite of where their feelings are leading them. A Christian must learn what it means to be controlled by the Holy Spirit at the point of impact.
Unfortunately, a good number of our married couples are little people in big people’s bodies. Though they have secured a decent education and established a nice career, they stopped growing emotionally a long time ago or never learned how to grow emotionally to begin with. When they feel angry, they act angry. If they feel like pouting, negative behavior ensues. They say whatever comes to their mind and show their spiritual and emotional immaturity. This is nothing less than childish behavior, and, sad to say, it is what keeps me busy as a pastor and marriage counselor.
I have found that until someone learns to say “yes” to Biblical principles and “no” to their childish emotions, they will never learn how to properly deal with their marital issues. They will be up one day and down the next, and they will take their marriage on a perpetual roller coaster ride.
Our goal for every counselee is spiritual and emotional maturity by learning how to apply Biblical principles to their life and to stop, think, and turnover thoughts over to the Lord at the point of spiritual impact in their life. This is the point where Satan puts outside pressure on your life to try to get you to react like a child with childish behavior. Satan seeks to control the Christians life by placing outside pressure on them to control their soul which is the seat of their mind, emotions, and will. He will then control their decision making. They will react in their emotion led life rather than to submit themselves to God and make Jesus Christ real in their life at the point of impact.
James 4:7, Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
This is our goal to teach as a counselor. They are in our office because they are immature emotionally and spiritually. Their childish behavior has put them there.
5. Make sure you use the two golden phrases that every married couple should communicate repeatedly throughout their marriage: 1. I am sorry! 2. I love you! Learn to be able to say this and you will go a long way toward having a good marriage. Say to your partner, I love you and say it meaningfully and often. Make sure you are controlled by the Holy Spirit daily. Every day ask the Lord if there is anything that stands between you and Him. When He shows you what it is, ask for forgiveness for that sin and turn from it, I John 1:9. Then make sure to ask the Holy Spirit to fill you that day. Also, ask the Holy Spirit to help you love your partner and to communicate in the proper way each day. Make it an important part of your prayer life. Ask the Lord to help you in the same manner with your children. After all, you want their heart, Proverbs 23:26. If you have an angry spirit, it must be turned over to God daily.
Kim and I have practiced something down through the years of our marriage. Every Sunday night after church we take a drive together. We talk about the services of the day, our relationship, our relationships with others, and our relationship with God. I ask her what she thinks and she asks me what I think. I also ask her what she thought about the messages that were preached that day, whether I preached or someone else preached. While our girls were home I would take them for a drive individually after church on Sunday afternoon and talk. Remember, these talks are not just about mundane things, but we talk about what we are learning from God’s Word and the desire’s he has put upon our heart. I also took this time to explain to them how important it was to have an intimate, personal, and passionate relationship with God. If you are too busy to communicate, you are too busy. However, it is easy to get so busy we do not communicate and years go by. You only have your children in your home for 18 years; you need to redeem the time. Also, you have to commit yourself to communicating. Make time for it. Those rides in the car become special times and my daughters every now and then talk about their rides with dad. Remember your wife or husband will be there long after those 18 years are over. The sadness is sometimes after the children are gone, a couple finds out the years have gone by and they really do not know each other because they have not communicated. If you do not talk with each other and have a Spirit filled life, you will have a disaster in your marriage, ministry, and a disaster with your children.
Another tool that is very effective that I have used with couples who say, “I do not love her or him anymore.” I have often encouraged men and women in a troubled marriage to ask themselves the question, "If I felt love for my spouse today, what would I do for them?" Then, I advise them to go and do according to their answer. To be honest, it is a very powerful step for spouses to take, and there is a sense where it must be done in faith that their feelings will eventually agree with not only their actions, but Biblical precepts.
I Corinthians 13:4-5, Charity (love) suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
Did you notice “love is kind?” Most people respond when I ask the above question say, “I would be more kind.” Next question how specifically would you do that? When they give you the answer encourage them to do it as an assignment. Make you tell each other that you are thankful for each other love each other consistently and often.
1 Thessalonians 5:18, In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
6. Make sure you know how to control your thought life.
Philippians 4:4-9, Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. (5) Let your moderation (self-control) be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand (in your life). (6) Be careful (anxious) for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. (7) And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. (8) Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. (9) Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
I want you to notice in verse 6 the phrase “prayer and supplication.” Supplication means to ask for something humbly (submitted). Then I want you to notice in verse 6 thanksgiving. Then notice in verse 8 praise. So, at the point of impact rather than be anxious Lord I want to turn this over to you, I ask you to forgive me, I want to submit this to you and to be controlled by the Holy Spirit. Since most problems begin in the mind, Lord what do you want me to praise you for and thank you for? Then verse eight comes to play proper Spirit controlled thinking rather than let your mind worry, fret and think on the wrong things. It must become a daily moment by moment part of your life to be a Spirit controlled person. Hebrews 13:15, By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. In the Bible, the heart and the mind are used interchangeably.
There is a very important principle in II Corinthians 10:5, Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
In the Bible, the heart and the mind are used interchangeably. There is a very important principle in II Corinthians 10:5, Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. See the word imaginations? It means fantasies. Every person who is rebellion in their life is because they are living in a fantasy world. A place where they allow their minds to run off and fantasize about living in another time, another place, with another woman, another man, being immoral with a boy or girl, man or woman, sports, activities etc.. Many people spend hours in their virtual reality world where they think no one else sees. Let me clue you in God sees!
II Corinthians 10:4, (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;
Notice the phrase, “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.”
We wrestle not against flesh and blood. Therefore, our weaponry is not carnal (fleshly). However, it is in fact powerful through God for the pulling down of strongholds. (Interesting word). Strongholds where? In the mind. The word strongholds figuratively means heavily fortified containment and is used of a false argument in which a person seeks (a safe place) to escape reality. Ephesians 6:13-18 describes some of the spiritual weaponry God has given for us. When a person is in rebellion to each other and their Biblical authorities, it never fails that they have not controlled their thought life or they do not know how to do so. This is a huge problem for marriages today.
7. Make sure in your marriage to get your partner’s heart and keep it. You must pray for this daily and work at it. Part of getting their heart is to ask questions. You must make time to communicate. You must draw out what is in the heart. Remember that if you lose your partner’s heart, find out where you lost it and make every effort to get it back as soon as possible. Your partner’s heart can be lost, hardened, and stolen. These are the three steps every person takes to rebellion. These steps are taken because the partner loses the heart of the wife or husband.
8. Make sure you put God first in your life and giving. Make sure that as a couple that you understand that all money is God's money, not just 10 percent. Make sure that your commitment to God is to learn to give properly and practice it
9. Make sure your local church is important to you and your family. Be faithful and find something you can do to serve God and do your service faithfully. Make sure your family hears you tell others how much your local church means to means to you. Make sure they understand the importance of faithful church attendance, I Corinthians 4:2, Hebrews 10:25.
10. Make sure you share your personal testimony of salvation with your family. Tell them how you got saved. Pray earnestly for others to be saved and make sure you and your partner understand sharing the gospel with others is important. Encourage an evangelistic outreach with each other and in your home and pray for it. Go with each other on visitation and take your children with you. One of the best ways for married couple to learn compassion for lost people is to go on visitation and talk about having compassion for the lost while you are out talking with people. Pray for compassion for the lost. Make sure you and your partner know how to give a clear presentation of the gospel to an unsaved person. Teach your children how to give that presentation.
Some items in this article come from How to Be Happy Though Married and Hitting Home.
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"Rearing Spiritual Children To Serve the Saviour"
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242 pages, 24 chapters, 8 1/4" X 5 1/2", is a spiritual and extremely practical book. Dr. Terry Coomer takes us back to the Bible for training our children to grow up and serve God. This is a must read for every Christian parent who is serious about their children and family walking with God. This book takes you through all the important steps that are neglected today and will help every parent know how to be successful in rearing spiritual children to grow up and serve the Saviour. The forward by Missionary to the Philippines, Pastor Dan Tessin says: "The reason Dr. Coomer's teachings are so helpful is three-fold: First, and most importantly, they are rooted and based on God's Word. Only God's Word can truly change a life. The second reason why this book is an excellent resource for the family is because Dr. Coomer and his wife Kim have successfully raised two daughters using the Bible as their standard for the home. Thirdly, Dr. Coomer has had thirty-eight years of ministry experience of pastoring in five fundamental churches. He has seen and dealt with many family situations over the years.This experience has aided greatly in preparing him to be of help to today's family. Praise the Lord for raising up a man to write a book which leads us in how to rear up spiritual children to serve The Saviour."
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How To Have A Real Relationship With God-The Work of The Holy Spirit In A Person's Life
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How to Have A Daily Time With God
 In this very practical booklet, Dr. Terry Coomer shows us step-by step How to Have a Daily Time With God. Many Christians go through their lives without a real, intimate, personal, and passionate relationship with God. Where do I read in the Bible, how do I read, why do I read, and what about writing things down? This booklet answers all these questions and many more. It will change your life as you learn how to allow the Holy Spirit to work in your life to teach you from God’s Word. A reader said, “This booklet changed my life and showed me how to have a relationship with God that I never thought was possible.”
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How Do I Find Hope from My Grief?
 This is an excellent book on how to deal with grief and suffering. One Pastor said, “This book will be a great help to anyone who is experiencing grief, loss, and suffering. The answers are Bible based and very helpful. Get ready to learn real spiritual truth on this subject. I would recommend any Pastor having this book to give to people in their time of need.” In a deeply moving story, Dr. Terry Coomer takes us through a personal story of three people in his life who suffered immensely over a long period of time and how he learned to deal with his grief. Dr. Coomer said, “I have hesitated to write about suffering and grief because I wanted to be sure I could help and to do justice with the subject to help others. I have also hesitated to write about it because it is our personal story. I have tried in this book to share the great grief I experienced and how God in His gracious mercy taught me spiritual truth and helped me to deal with the suffering they experienced, and each situation in a Christ honoring way. It is my prayer that this story will be helpful to you. I have been a Pastor and a Biblical Counselor for approximately forty years. I have counseled many people through Hope Biblical Counseling Center and For the Love of the Family Ministries for all those years. Yes, I have seen great tragedy and many difficult things in the lives of people. I have seen people who have been so hurt by people and the circumstances of life they were not sure if they could or would recover from the great hurt and grief that they felt. After a lot of thought, study, experience, and prayer I have decided to share my story and the conclusions I came to from God’s Word and by the Holy Spirit’s help to overcome my grief and find hope!”
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The Anatomy of A Rebel-How to Have the Wisdom of God Not to Be One
 In this marvelous book, Dr. Terry Coomer shares with us the answer and the cure to rebellion in the lives of people. After Biblically counseling many people over several years there is one trait that all rebels have. Dr. Coomer takes us through the process to help us Biblically make long term change in our lives. Statistics show that approximately 60 to 80 percent of all children who grow up in a Christian home do not go on to serve God. In fact, they many times lead horribly destructive lives. Many adults live destructive lives as well. They all have the same Biblical problem. You will be amazed at the answer which many pastors, leaders, and parents miss. The Anatomy of a Rebel-How to Have the Wisdom of God Not to Be One is a very important read to know how to deal with the rebellion that affects so many people. Dr. Coomer states, “Every rebel I have ever counseled, teen or adult has the same problem.”
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What Should I Do If I Am Doubting My Salvation?
 Dr. Terry Coomer takes us step by step through how to deal with the issue of a person doubting their salvation. People who doubt their salvation are in mental anguish. There are only three reasons that a person would doubt their salvation. Many leaders do not understand how to deal with this issue. This is a very practical booklet that will be very helpful to pastors, missionaries, evangelists and lay people. It is an important read to help someone who is doubting their salvation and helping those who must deal with the people who are doubting their salvation. Skillfully covers the Biblical answers on this most important subject. |
The Thought Life Of The Christian
 Have you ever given much thought to how your thought life affects your fellowship and ultimately your walk with God? The Bible has many references to the believer's thinking. Some of the references are to bad thinking and some references to good thinking. The battle ground for the Christian is the mind because the devil works upon the mind. He knows if he controls the mind of the person, he controls that person. In the booklet, The Thought Life of The Christian, Dr. Terry Coomer shows us how to have a spirit controlled thought life. It is really the key to walking with God. We are what we think! What we are thinking today will be what we are tomorrow! Our thoughts truly show what our character is. We may try to hide, disguise, ignore or justify this kind of thinking, but we are fooling ourselves if we think we may indulge in wicked thinking without it affecting our walk with God. Galatians 6:7-8, Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of his flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. A powerful booklet that shows great life changing spiritual truth.
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How to Deal with Worry, Anxiety, and Fear
 Worry, Anxiety, and Fear are considered by most Christians as the “acceptable” sins. However, they do much damage in the Christian’s life. Dr. Coomer shows us in a very powerful way from God’s Word how to deal with these debilitating sins. God wants us to have victory in our lives from these sins “which doth so easily best us”. How To Deal With Worry, Anxiety, and Fear shows the proper steps Scripturally to take to obtain the victory and hope God wants us to have.
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The Most Important Key In Rearing Children to Serve the Lord-Dealing With Anger
 Pastor Coomer takes us step by step on how to deal with ungodly anger in our lives. He also shows us how to rear our children to not have an angry spirit. Many Christian's homes, marriages, and children have been destroyed by ungodly anger in the home. Many Christians do not realize they have an angry spirit and do not realize the serious problems which result from their ungodly anger. A powerful exposition of the anger passages of the Bible. A must read if you are serious about wanting your children to grow up and serve God and desire practical help in dealing with the hidden sin of Christianity.
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 Many Christian families are not serving God today because they have at one time been hurt. The tragedy to their lives, their children's lives, and to the church is great. In an exposition of Psalm 37 Pastor Coomer shows us the flesh cycle that many Christians live in when they are hurt and the spiritual cycle that God wants us to live in. Extremely practical and greatly needed by families who are hurting.
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How To Deal With Bitterness
 Many Christian families are not serving God today because they have at one time been hurt in some way and they become bitter. The tragedy to their lives, their children's lives, and to the church is great. Pastor Coomer shows us the cycle many people go through and the Biblical answer to deal with bitterness in our lives. Extremely practical and greatly needed by families who are hurting.
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The Difficulties of Pride In Our Lives
 Pastor Coomer helps us to see how pride has hurt our lives and what we can do to deal with this sin that has harmed many Christian's lives. He also shows us that pride is a root sin and many other sins come off of it. Extremely practical and a must read for every Christian who wants to be serious about having a real walk with God.
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Why We Use the King James Bible
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On occasion I have been asked why we at Hope Baptist Church use the “outdated” King James Bible. The issue of the text of the Bible became an issue for me as a Pastor in the early 1980’s. As I listened to different people I became concerned about the desire to literally do away with the King James Bible. Sitting in a preacher’s meeting several years ago I heard a leader of a fellowship of Independent-Fundamental Baptist Churches state, “The New International Version of the Bible is an easier Bible to read. I would suggest that you go home to your churches and encourage your people to use this new Bible!” That particular fellowship followed the advice of that noted leader and today they are at the liberal end of the New Evangelical movement with churches that no longer have the word Baptist in their church names. Therefore, I decided to study the issue with great care because of the importance it played in my life and the lives of the people God had called me to minister to. I studied and totally read 36 different books written by authors on both sides of the issue.
We wanted to create a booklet for the average person in the pew who wants to have a basic understanding of the subject. This booklet will be good for Pastors to give to people in their congregation or outside the church to simply explain the issue.
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Tongues Speaking in the Book of Acts and I Corinthians
 This is an in depth study of all the passages dealing with this subject in Acts and I Corinthians. Easy to read and great to have available to give to people who are confused about this subject. One missionary who read the booklet commented, “I graduated from Bible College and I have never heard this subject presented in such a Biblical common sense way as Pastor Coomer has presented it. Great material.” These booklets are available for $4.00 per booklet order 25 or more they are $3.00 each.
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How to Have a Real Relationship With God CD's
Dr. Coomer takes us step by step through what it means to Biblically have a real, intimate, personal, and passionate relationship with God. Extremely practical as Dr. Coomer shares skillfully from God’s Word how we are to have this real relationship with God. This is a series of messages on 7 CD’s preached at a Hope Biblical Living Family Conference at Elmwood Baptist Church in Brighton, CO.
- How to Have a Real Relationship With God, Part 1
- How to Have a Real Relationship With God, Part 2
- How to Have a Real Relationship With God, Part 3
- How to Be a Spirit Controlled Person, Part 1
- How to Be a Spirit Controlled Person, Part 2
- How to Deal with Anger
- How to Deal With Bitterness
Donation for $3.00 each or $21.00 for all seven CD's, plus shipping and handling.
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 In our Annual Biblical Counseling Training Conference, Dr. Coomer dealt with the anger issues of a young couple in their marriage. There are three DVD’s that are each 45 minutes long. This is a mock presentation for our Training Conference. The young couple, Tony and Jamie, actually went through Hope Biblical Counseling Center and have dramatically changed their lives. They graciously volunteered for the DVD’s to seek to help others with anger in their lives.
These three DVD’s are available for $15.00, plus shipping and handling.
Order from the Hope Biblical Counseling Center Book Store, http://hopebiblicalcounselingcenter.com/bookstore/ |
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We have 6 messages on CD by Pastor Coomer available from the Counseling Pastor's conference at Cozzadale Baptist Temple in Cincinnati, OH. They are:
1. Why I Cannot Change My Life?
2. Idols of the Heart
3. Giving People Hope Through the God of Hope
4. Understanding Marriage-Through the Bible
5. How to Have Biblical Long Term Change in Our Life
6. The Husband's Role in Marriage.
Donation for $3.00 each or $15.00 for all six CD's, plus shipping and handling.
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Salvation Tract-This Is Your Personal Invitation
 White glossy, 3" X 5 3/4", black printing, color on front. This tract has been used to lead several people to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. Written by Dr. Terry Coomer it gives a clear presentation of the gospel and especially the need of repentance. One Pastor said, “This tract has the clearest presentation of repentance I have seen in a tract before.” The front page can have the picture of your church, time of services, and other information. Please send an email to tlco...@juno.com with your art work for the front page. Nothing else on this tract can be changed except the front page. You will receive a proof before printing. Shipping and handling billed separately.
Cost to print is .15 each. The cost is the same no matter how many we print. We will bill shipping and handling separately.
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