Ebenezer Reformed Church

I heard things in your sermon that I read a hundred times, but didn’t HEAR it until I listened to this sermon. I appreciate your clear teaching and preaching of God’s Word!

I am so happy that the sermons are a blessing to you! Thank you for your encouragement.

This sermon has really helped me gain insight into God's will, this point of being in His will or knowing His will has never been clear to me. The grace and love of our beautiful Saviour is heard throughout this message,I truly thankyou so much Pastor Sam Powell for this, at a time of immense challenge in my life, I listen to your messages here each week and am being strengthened and encouraged. God bless you in everything.

Dear Pastor Sam Powell, the love of Christ shared in your messages has been life changing for me at a time of intense difficulty and trauma. I love the Lord Jesus and am finding through your messages online a great source of strength, inner joy and of course challenge, yet with grace and clarity so I'm able to receive. Thank you. I pray God will continue to bless you and all connected to you in your service to Him.

Many insightful points. Thank you, I enjoyed this.

1 Kings 19:18. The LORD knows and keeps those who are his (7000) . They did not worship Baal.

So amazingly healing. Thank you

This sermon was suggested to listen to by 'ACry For Justice'. Thank you. This sermon encouraged me and gave me great hope, as I have been recently just learning how to overcome the mental oppression an abusive marriage of 35 years and still presently in has isolated me. I have never heard a teaching like this before. I have quietly pulled away from church as it fed the abuse even more, and the kind folks from 'A Cry of Justice', made me aware that I was not alone, and many of us who are abused were led to a safe place to go on Sunday, even if it's only through my I-Pad. Thank-you. I look forward to listening to more.

I sincerely pray and beg those in church leadership to listen to this sermon, as well those in the congregation. Thank you.

Yes, once a person is saved there is no where to call home on earth. The desire is constantly to be with christ and to leave everything here. To live for Christ ( or at least to try) is to be a weirdo to everyone else ever after, but seperation is the call. Like Christ's experience, it is a lonely path. Elisabeth Elliot has written an excellent book about this experience in her own life.

This is very good. I do not have a husband like this at all but i was a counsellor in a women shelter years ago. I still have a very great burden for abused children and am very obsessed with praying for them. I read constantly, as reflected in the comments, that churches rarely believe or support the women. Pastor jeff crippen also ministeres almost exclusively to this issue and may be a resource on how to get help if people need it. These men do not stop, are not repentant, no matter how much they say it.

ALL of God's Word is precious but I have always felt drawn to the Book of Ruth. Thank you Pastor Powell for this series and reminding us of the Lord's wonderful love for His remnant. These sermons and others by like-minded pastors nurture the hurting souls more than you can imagine. Many of us are without sound Christ honouring fellowships. I pray your congregation not take their assembling together for granted. Blessings, IN CHRIST and "healingInHim".

Rev Powell is amongst the very few within the church which pointedly shares the uncomfortable portions of Scripture for what it is. He confronts us with not turning away from helping the vulnerable. To not betray ourselves by desiring the status of "Christian" as opposed to living it out as Moses did ... not seeking to remain within the pleasures of Egypt.

Thank you for reminding me, in so many words, that while I'm observing the wicked person and shaking my head, to remember how UNLIKE the Lord I really am.

This message was very timely for me as I ponder the future. The fear of the unknown? Thank you Rev Powell for this exhortation from God's Word and I pray others will be blessed as well. All messages for AM, PM and Sunday School messages offer food for those who are willing to hear and receive The Truth.