It’s a great shame among the churches that the “answers” to prayer have been reduced to the possibilities of “yes, no, or maybe” or “no, yes, and not yet” or even “always yes.” They have completely forgotten that, as the Psalmist wrote, holding sin in ones heart keeps God from hearing! Every Christian seems so utterly …
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Content warning: This post contains a photograph from a Westboro Baptist protest which is used as an example of what not to do. It contains language which is offensive. Over a decade ago, while I yet called myself a Christian, I was onto something good: a realization that homophobic protests and otherwise aggressive “evangelism” were no way to properly show forth the …
In responding to a user’s search, I look to the Bible to determine whether God will ever give us more than we can handle.
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to pin down just what I believe. Well, let me rephrase that: I believe in Jesus Christ and in the Scriptures as His testimony. And while I am fairly conversant in Scriptural theology, I sometimes wonder what it is I’m supposed to be doing, how it is I can live out an empowered Christian life. Yeah, it’s …
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Thesis: The world isn’t going to hate you because you believe in salvation by grace through faith. They might scoff, they might make fun, but hate you? Rarely, if ever. The world will hate you, though, when you take you belief in salvation by grace through faith beyond that. The world will hate you when …
Abdon, Abijah, Abraham, Ahab, Ahasuerus, Ashur, Belshazzar, and many more men in the Bible had multiple wives, but does the Bible ever condemn them for that particular life decision? Whether the men chose to have more than one wife of their own volition or they were given the wives by God, it would seem as though God has no problem with having multiple wives.
Working in retail, I see many people each day, and a great deal of them have cell phones, are playing with their cell phones, or are talking on their cell phones. (That I can recall, I’ve yet to notice anyone taking pictures with their cell phones, surprisingly.) This is adapted from an email forward I received from my friend …