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What I mean, for example, is that I’ve heard people say that ‘well, we can’t always talk about the bible.’ It’s true that we have things to do other than worship in this earth, and yet Paul says that whatever we do in word or deed, do all in the name of Christ. Whatever we do, whether eating or...

There are two sayings in the Christian community that don’t come from the bible, and I hate hearing them, personally. One is ‘Too heavenly minded to be of any earthly good.’ Who could have been more heavenly minded than our Lord, and yet he was of the most earthly good. People who use this...

When Richard Wurmbrand wrote his book, ‘Tortured for Christ’, warning the free world of the coming horrors of Marxist persecution, he testified that ‘I never saw a lukewarm Christian in Russia. False Christians, yes, but never lukewarm.’ It’s really hard to be ‘hot’ for the Lord, or ‘on fire’...

When I was first saved, I was so on fire for the Lord. It was a total interruption to my life. Finding God was the last thing in the world that I or anyone who knew me would have expected. So I spent long, long hours alone talking to my new Dad, whom I called Grampa. I would write the things...

I always feel guilty about something. I spend hour upon hour dwelling on all the suffering in the world; imagining nightmarish images of someone weeping in the darkness, or screaming with no end. I dwell on the fact that someone hasn't seen the sun in years, or that no longer has the limbs to...

Paul exhorted: Look at your calling brethren... God chose the despised things and things that were nothing by human standards, to bring to nothing the things that the world considers to be of value. This means that we should expect the church to be filled with dysfunctional and defective and...

We were drunk. So drunk that we couldn't speak, couldn't care, couldn't feel. There was momma - for me a foster mom, but momma to us four teenage boys, just a hair beneath manhood. She was a probation officer, and this was probably doubly painful for that reason. I was the reason we got caught...

An ante-hero is generally considered to be a protagonist whose character is contrary to that of the archetypal hero, yet typically retains many heroic qualities; not the image of the noble and courageous, ever capable savior and warrior, standing proudly, fists on the hips with flag and cape...

I want to draw attention to the superhuman gift of the man as no one has done so adequately, from this episode that is so briefly stated. Samson lays in the arms of his darling Delilah as the enemy encircles the city gate. And Samson lay down until the middle of the night, and rose up in the...

I don’t know how many are familiar with the story of Sgt York, but if you get the chance you would be highly inspired by watching the black & white biography starring Carey Grant (the actor hand picked by the real Sgt York to play himself), or at least doing an internet search for some...

I have to admit I was wrong... as usual. All my Christian life I, like my peers, have compared the modern church with the New Testament church in order to be certain of the biblical conformity to God’s design. I don’t think that’s wrong, but on the other hand, after getting over the romantic...

It is clear that the difference between New Covenant saints, and Old Covenant people of God is the New Nature. Jer 2:7 And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in, you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination. Jer 32:23...

Manasseh came to power at age 12. His father was the famous, righteous king Hezikiah. Ironically, his son was the even more famous, and more righteous Josiah, who was responsible for the greatest revival and most consistent faithful leadership of all the kings. But Manasseh was more infamous...

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I've become so ooold, in spite of myself. My soul feels my age, as I look back at so many, many regrets - far more than things I am thankful for. And please don't say 'Well, we learn from our mistakes' or 'God redeems even our bad choices, brother.' Some things just aren't that redeemable, and...

When I joined this site I never dreamed that it would be a place of so much conflict and hostility in the name of Christ. I know we just want to stir each other up, and I too thought that by criticizing the state of the church - pointing out the wrong direction we have gone in departing from the...

I would so much like to rejoin this debate, but not as an enemy here to argue meaninglessly, but as a brother in Christ sharing a difference of perspective. I have been watching from time to time, and as in the real world, I notice far too much emotionality and logic rather than mere weight of...

A teacher of mine once reproved our class, saying that there was a difference between a pupil and a student. A pupil, she claimed, was just one who showed up; but a student was one who studies. When I hear the conditions that Jesus laid down for following him, for being his disciple, I fear...

I spend a lot of time thinking about this. I'll admit, I am so afraid. I'm not so much afraid of the suffering, as of my denying Christ through it. We all seem to just take it for granted that we are going to wake up from this sheltered, shallow, comfortable peace we have now, and be able to...

I spend a lot of time thinking about this. I'll admit, I am so afraid. I'm not so much afraid of the suffering, as of my denying Christ through it. We all seem to just take it for granted that we are going to wake up from this sheltered, shallow, comfortable peace we have now, and be able to...