Don Fortner

Right Doctrine Cannot Save You

October 16, 2025 1 min read

Right doctrine is no more capable of saving you than right doing It is Christ who is our Savior not our doctrine or our deeds but Christ himself

The Lord’s Supper

August 27, 2022 2 min read

Read Matthew 26 1-29 These verses of inspiration tell us several things about the Lord's Supper It is a symbolic remembrance of Christ Just as the Jewish Passover symbolically portrayed the deliveranc

Contentment

August 23, 2022 4 min read

Therefore my brethren dearly beloved and longed for my joy and crown so stand fast in the Lord my dearly beloved [2] I beseech Euodias and beseech Syntyche that they be of the same mind in the Lord [3

Going Home

June 28, 2022 18 min read

Note This article is the final chapter in Don Fortner's Book Going Home Recently I read a sermon by a Scottish preacher named Andrew Gray He lived from 1633-1656 leaving this world when he was only 23

It is Our Father Who Breaks Our Teeth

June 27, 2022 1 min read

Faith in Christ and obedience to Christ does not exempt God's saints from all the storms everybody else in this world faces rather it intensifies them All the heartaches all the pains all the sickness

He Hath Made Him to be Sin for Us!

June 26, 2022 6 min read

For he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him 2 Cor 5 21 What was done with the Lord Jesus Christ when he was made to be sin for us Let no

Preach the Gospel

June 26, 2022 2 min read

And he said unto them Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature Mark 16 15 When I was a young man I listened with astonishment to a conversation between two older preachers past

Repentance

March 6, 2022 2 min read

And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you but have shewed you and have taught you publickly and from house to house Testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks repentance toward

Humility

January 14, 2022 2 min read

I served the Lord with great humility and with tears Acts 20 19 Without humility there is no salvation Psalm 34 18 51 17 Isaiah 66 2 Matthew 5 3-5 18 34 Philippians 3 3 No man can serve or glorify God

Doing the Work of God

December 8, 2021 1 min read

I frequently hear people say I want to do the work that God would have me to do or I want to serve the Lord and do his will Those are truly noble desires I wish sincerely that all men truly had such d

Come Down

November 11, 2021 3 min read

And going out from there Jesus withdrew to the parts of Tyre and Sidon And behold a woman of Canaan coming out of these borders cried to Him saying Have mercy on me O Lord Son of David My daughter is

Little Things Prove a Man’s Character

October 8, 2021 3 min read

He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon who will

Grace Only, Grace Always, And Grace All The Way

October 8, 2021 1 min read

When Paul says By grace are ye saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God not of works lest any man should boast he means for us to understand that salvation is in its entire

He Hath Made Him To Be Sin For Us!

September 3, 2021 3 min read

What a profound truth what stupendous grace what wondrous mystery those words contain He God the Father Hath in holy justice and infinite mercy Made by divine imputation Him the Lord Jesus Christ his

Market-Driven Christianity

August 31, 2021 2 min read

For do I now persuade men or God or do I seek to please men for if I yet pleased men I should not be the servant of Christ Galatians 1 10 Religion in America is big business Scads of money powerful pe

Gospel Distinctives

August 30, 2021 5 min read

I know that the things we believe and preach place us in direct conflict with the religious world around us That really shouldn't surprise us When our Lord Jesus told the religious leaders of his day

Broken People!

August 29, 2021 3 min read

The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit Psalm 34 18 A broken heart a contrite spirit and a subdued will are rare things especially in this age

What is a Successful Ministry?

August 23, 2021 2 min read

Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful 1 Corinthians 4 2 The desperate need of the hour is faithful men in the pulpits of our churches We have an over-abundance

God's Servants Do Not Promote Themselves

August 23, 2021 1 min read

For we preach not ourselves but Christ Jesus the Lord and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake 2 Corinthians 4 5 No work is so great no labor is so noble no burden is so heavy no honor is so humbli

Backbiting

July 25, 2021 4 min read

Romans 1 28-32 KJV And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient 29 Being filled with all unrighteou