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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
FORTHCOMING TITLE

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

A sink being filled with water and how it represents God the creator of water.

God's World, God's Way

By design, water represents God as three persons in one God, and through creation God has been making a people He calls His own: first Israel and then the Church. In both cases, they are being made to represent their God, Creator, Bridegroom, and bride.

3 min read

SATAN TWISTS THE TRUTH

"YOU SHALL BE LIKE GOD" Just one litle problem with what Satan had to say, knowing good and doing evil is no good! A little problem with Satan's lie, they immediately didn't act like God because He neither hides Himself nor is He afraid of anything.

4 min read

Adam and Eve led their children down the road of sin and separation from God. There is one road that leads to God, and that is the rebirth of which no person is in control. The result of being born again is repentance and faith that continues throughout an authentic Christian's life. Assumption is never part of the believer's character. Assurance belongs to the rebirth.

ALL THAT GOD CREATED

The believer, by contrast, should experience the sealing of the Spirit, which is assurance of salvation. Such assurance is not based on assumption but the reality that God lives in one's heart.

5 min read

The Way of God's statutes is none other than the LORD Jesus Christ. He is always the Way, the truth, and the Life.

THE WAY TO OBEY

The Way to obedience begins with finding our identity in the One who created us, predetermined our existence, begat us, chose us, called us, justified us, and one day will glorify us.

5 min read

"...such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light." (2 Corinthians 11:13 & 14)

IN THE BEGINNING GOD

The will is only set free to make godly choices after a person is given a new heart. It is grace that sets the heart free from corruption, but Satan and his army are always on the prowl to capture the children of God who are not being watchful, as we all should be.

5 min read

GOD'S CORRUPTED WORLD

Thinking back to the story by which I began this post, the world in which we live, with all its bloodshed, hatred, selfishness, unrighteous judgments, etc., is anything but what God had intended.

4 min read

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.

4 min read