Category: Penny Pulpit

Msg#2521 The Davidic Footprint What The Bible Says Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice In reading 150 Psalms in 21 days I’ve learned that my puny footprints of passion are dwarfed by King David’s, and his are intent on imaging those of our Lord Jesus Christ’s. That gem makes such effort worthwhile. Noah Read more…

Msg#2520 Daniel and the 1st Advent What The Bible Says Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice Daniel prophecies of the 2nd Advent, but necessarily of Christ’s 1st Advent; the Messiah’s coming in humiliation to die the untimely death of the cross. An “Advent”, by definition, is a long awaited, momentous, appearing. In 2:34 Read more…

Msg#2519 A Good Soldier What The Bible Says Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice “Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus … endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ” (2Tim.2:1,3). In Ephesians 6 every Christian is equip as a soldier; in vr.10-13 we find Read more…

Msg#2518 Utterance, Boldness, The Gospel What The Bible Says Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice As Paul prepped the saints of Ephesus for spiritual warfare, he identified the enemies, the rulers of the darkness of the world, the spiritual wickedness in the high places; he assigned able armor, for loins, breastplate, feet, shield, Read more…

Msg#2517 An Easter Afterthought What The Bible Says Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice After Jesus’ Palm Sunday triumphal entry into Jerusalem, he did only one miracle per se; the Bible says, “Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. And when he saw a fig tree in the Read more…

Msg#2516 Easter’s Thousand Tongues What The Bible Says Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice On this years Resurrection Morning, the Sunday immediately following Passover, “If I had a thousand tongues, I would praise Christ with them all!” In 1739 that phrase was heard by a new convert and on the first anniversary of Read more…

Msg#2515 Palm Sunday, Passover, Easter Sunday What The Bible Says Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice   Sunday April 13th 2025 is Passover. It starts Saturday evening because God counted his creation days as “the evening and the morning.” The very predictable first new moon after the solar equinox, starts the Hebrew month Read more…

Msg#2514 Protect Your Head What The Bible Says Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice “And take the helmet of salvation” (Eph.6:17). The 5th and last piece of armor donned by the saint in Paul’s Roman Armor illustration is head protection. Salvation itself was first donned with gospel truth and Christ’s righteousness; donning the Read more…

Msg#2513 Above All – Shield of Faith What The Bible Says Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice The Roman soldier was well equipped as a fighter, but the smallest unit of a Roman Legion, lead by a Centurion, was its premier fighting force; a soldier was equipped to fight in a unit. Roman Read more…

Msg#2511 Feet Shod What The Bible Says Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice After his “Finally, my brethren”, the Apostle Paul puts a capstone on his letter to the Ephesians, naming five pieces of armor placed on a Roman Soldier before he goes to battle. His spiritual application shews how a Christian needs Read more…