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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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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

In this image, it is not a church burning but a building; parts of the church have burned to death for not bowing to false and irreligious hypocrites.

Understanding American Decline

Anyone who experienced the 1960S knows it was a time of great upheaval in many ways, from many differing perspectives. It is now five decades later and when young people look back at what they think was a terrible America, some of us look at today and ask what happened to morality or even decency, and religion.

6 min read

Prayers of Praise

God provides true knowledge of Himself, not organized religions that seek their own worship rather than that of God. Consistently, God's work refers to His calling His children, and that divine call is to salvation as God's choice alone. It is God's glory and excellence alone that saves without any participation by sinful creatures, that all people are.

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When a person stops to consider their ways, they should first consider God's ways, the I AM of Israel's ways, so they might have something good for which to shoot.

Consider Your Ways

The option to disobey God's callling to be holy as He is holy does not exist ...like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, “YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.” (1 Peter 1:14-15)

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Jesus Wept

Jesus Wept at the tomb of Lazarus, in the Garden of Gethsemene, but there was no other time more significant than in Luke (19:41).

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The Big Picture

Here's the big picture: repentance is recognizing that our sins originate within us, making us what we are: sinners.

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Charlie Kirk's Turning Point

We only experience FREEDOM when we choose to do what is right in the sight of God, when it is heard in the chamber of our conscience.

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Repentant Sinners Become Righteous Saints

Repentant Sinners become righteous saints and prove their righteousness by standing for righteous living as defined by the Bible and not by impostors, deceivers, hypocrites, and immoral liars, thieves, and murderers.

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In this book, Greg Treat and I try to set forth the essentials of faith and practice as they can be read in scripture.

God Bless, I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH

If we convey the truth accurately, when people read and accept what we say, they are blessed, God is pleased, and even though the writer may not know it in this life, they will hear, 'Well done' in the next life, and that is why we write.

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Revival is not the top blowing off but the bottom falling out. Roy Hession

Revival Defined

As Roy Hession once wrote, "Revival is the life of the Lord Jesus Christ poured into human hearts."

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Prayer, Character and Conduct

The goal is a godly character that produces godly conduct, and a prayer life that grows and results in more godly character and conduct.

6 min read

Someone Like You

will jeopardize your relationship, you'd best be walking by faith if you desire to do the right thing.

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John MacArthur has had the most influence in my life for spiritual good than anyone else.

In Memory Of John MacArthur

John MacArthur is not controlled by tradition, men, or man-made agencies. His concern was not about numbers or worldly success. He cared nothing for accolades, but as a godly man, he pastored and preached only for God's pleasure and praise.

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