I have a confession to make. I cried today. Unrequited love–life’s great theme seen in our literature, arts, and song. It gets you every time, this “loving someone and that love not returned in kind.”
I was listening to Jose Luis Perales and Alejandro Fernandez sing Perales’s “Por que’ esta soledad” (Why This Loneliness?). [...]
Christ gave us this command: “Be perfect.” And, of course, the kneejerk response comes, “Wait a minute. With all due respect, that’s not right. Nobody’s perfect. Why would He give us a command that’s impossible to keep?”
This is where some will toss Christianity into the trashcan, never realizing that ”Be perfect” is a paradox, ” a statement [...]
We have become the princes and princesses of God the King by our new spiritual birth. We are in training to assume royal duties with Him upon His return to earth.
What should we be doing to get ready for this great responsibility? We are admonished to “purge out the old leaven that the lump [...]
“Why were you baptized?” a survey taker asks, cornering us with his microphone and camera. Most of us would have to say, “Because they told me I should do it.”
Question 2: “What does baptism mean exactly?” Here most of us would scratch our heads and say, “Well, I’m not sure. The minister and congregation were very supportive, and [...]
I was reading Psalm 150 the other day in the New International Version, and I noticed a footnote at the end of verse 1. The verse said, “Praise the LORD.” So I checked it at the bottom of the page, and the footnote read, “Hebrew Hallelu Yah.”
So I looked up Hallelu and it does mean [...]
Without God’s Spirit dwelling within us, we are only a member of the walking dead who spend a few nightly whispers with loved ones and then bury our dead and wait to be buried in turn.
Without the Spirit of God that makes alive whatever it touches and lives in, we are just as good as dead. [...]
Denominations have come up with a lot of hocus-pocus, mumbo jumbo, and smoke and mirrors in trying to “do the right thing” when it comes to the Lord’s Supper and Holy Communion. The bread and wine/grape juice are consumed by church goers who cannot comprehend what is really going on in the ritual. I [...]
God’s will, desire, plan, and purpose from eternity is to reproduce Himself in a group of sons and daughters here on earth. This is the great mystery that has been hidden for ages, but now is being revealed. We can look around at His creation and perceive just what He is doing (Romans 1:20).
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