Looking for spirituality in all the wrong places. I was just watching a report on the National Geographic channel about shamans, so-called ‘holy men’ around the world in many cultures. I watched with a broken heart as I saw them partake of marijuana and other drugs to get into a trance-like state. Some then went even farther and allowed themselves to be stung by poisonous stings of insects like wasps and such. In this trance-like state, they would claim to... Read more
In John 15 we read: “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vine keeper (husbandman). Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit He taketh away; and every branch that beareth fruit, He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the Word which I have spoken unto you.“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, no more... Read more
How sure are you in what you believe? John wrote these words: “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may KNOW that ye have eternal life” (1 John 5:13). Many times Christians struggle with whether they are saved because they have came up in a religious system that tries to force them to be good enough. Like being born again is not enough. They treat being born again... Read more
There are a lot of voices out there screaming for your attention. Advertisers screaming at you from TV, radio, computer, billboards and more. Every cause in the world wants your attention, support and especially your money. Even when you try to escape and get some solitude, still, there are those voices rolling around inside your head: things you need to do, things that happened at work today, bills that need to be paid. It is an epidemic to the point... Read more
“Judge not, that ye be not judged.” (Mathew 7:1) IS ONE OF THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD AND ABUSED SCRIPTURES IN BIBLE. Read the whole verse in context. Go ahead read it Matthew 7:1-5. It says “Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the... Read more
You know what I wish? I wish people would just stop labeling groups and judge all people as individuals and get to know them on their own merit and consider all human beings a community with much diversity but human nonetheless. These days people not only want you to accept their lifestyle, political orientation, religious affiliation, etc…. but to also praise it. I want to love all people like Jesus did. And I will not be a part of celebrating... Read more
God created man to have free will and to be free but the fundamental difference between God and man is God is entirely self-sufficient, in need of nothing. Man was brought into being not by themselves and their very existence was determined by their dependence on God. He has the ability to freely choose his actions but within a determined, conditioned existence. If he chooses to act according to how he was created, according to his Creator all will go... Read more
This present day world has opened the floodgates to every kind of belief and has settled for less than the truth and as a result we have a mixed up view of what truth is and is not, to say the least. We live in a world in the throes of moral relativism. The Holy Bible once almost universally respected as truth is now continually under attack. It has been called inaccurate, evil and wrong. We have a world that... Read more
It is God’s desire that we walk in the Spirit (Romans 8:1. Galatians 5:25). Galatians 5:16 says, “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.” He so desires that we walk in the reality that we are spirit beings, empowered by His Spirit, that have a soul and dwell in a fleshly body. Not the other way around. We are not just a fleshly body that has a soul and... Read more
Hebrews 4:12 says, “For the Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” And Ephesians 6:17 says, “And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.” How often I have been taught that the Bible we carry around... Read more
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