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ABOUT JOE DURSO
Author of The Jesus You Need to Know

Joe Durso was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1953. His grandparents were Italian immigrants. He graduated from Elohim Bible Institute in 1980, received a Master's degree from Trinity Theological Seminary in 1989. During the past ten years, he has discipled numerous men at Capitol Hill Baptist Church. Previously, he was the founder and director of the ministry Teens Under Fire, a drug awareness program reaching teens in High schools in Baltimore and Anne Arundel counties of Maryland. Joe is deeply passionate about his Christian faith at the ground level. He writes to the hurting, bewildered, lost, and broken-hearted people. His message is one of hope as found on the pages on Scripture.

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Growth in Godliness

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BOOKS

The Jesus You Need to Know

This book is about the most influential person in all of human history. Jesus has changed the stony hearts of men that believe in Him to caring, loving, empathetic hearts of flesh. His teachings have changed whole civilizations from tyrannical, aggressive warmongers to democratic liberties where they have been applied. This book examines the godly character, integrity, and motives of the greatest man that has ever lived, and how saving faith, in the right Jesus, can, by the grace of God, make Him the source of your own.

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I Will Build My Church
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By identifying the Old Testament model of growth and government and integrating it into a New Testament Spirit-filled, prayer-filled people of repentance and faith; the Church, not as a nation but as an organized group of families, can fulfill God's plan as it has during periods of revival in the past. I Will Build My Church was written with Greg Treat.

LATEST ARTICLE

We are all called to "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you;" (Matthew 28:19).

My Prayer Requests

In the past, my prayer times were more structured than they are now. My time with Him still includes praise, worship, confession, intercession, thankfulness, but now much more. I am led to read and gain an understanding of many things that I could never properly explain before.

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Deception began in the Garden of Eden, but it did not end there; it has continued through the cunning of Satan in a myriad of ways in philosophies and religions, even in God's revelations through His people. Nonetheless, God's children are promised an overcoming life for those who believe in me, the God who calls and anoints.

THE GREAT DECEPTION

We are left with a flesh that remains partially sinful to keep us humble and to understand God's saving work within us. God could perfect us at any time, but think how much more powerful the Gospel message can be when it comes from a humble saint.

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John 9, the journey of a man born blind, never able to see, and the question arises from Jesus' disciples, whose fault was the blindness, the man's or his parents'. Jesus's answer is eye-opening and no pun intended.

Displaying The Works of God

My dear readers, Defending the Works of God is what Christians are called to do. Self-sacrifice is the way of the cross, a love for Christ, and a testimony to the world, whether they receive it or not.

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In Paul's letter to the Philippians is recorded in the Bible that some in his day preached with the motive of envy and selfish ambition; That is church corruption.

Early Ekklesia Corruptions

"Some of the most confusing motives come into play as Paul wrote ...Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ even from envy and strife, ...out of selfish ambition rather than from pure motives, thinking to cause me distress in my imprisonment."

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The immortal and incorruptible Christian is much more than someone with particular religious beliefs. They possess eternal life whereby they will be forever incorruptible.

The Immortal, Incorruptible Christian

Immortality is to share the eternal life with God, who is incorruptible. When we, as Christian believers and doers, share immortality, we also of necessity share incorruptibility.

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Ruth Graham Bell as many women in the 20th and 21st Centuries who know God's Word are sometimes called to share it.

THE PROPHETESS MINISTRY

We can say without fear of contradiction that the constant condition of the world is godless, idolatrous, and constantly being corrupted by the devil. For this reason, all prophets have warning ministries to cultures under God's wrath. Equally valid is that all prophetesses in scripture have the same ministry.

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