by admin | Mar 2, 2016 | Articles
The cultural of the world constantly changes and that of those who live in the United States of America see new trends on a constant basis. One who is trendy tends to be one who follows the current trend or influence, fashion and ideologies. For years I have tried to figure out how society can be so wrong and the collective, hive-mind mentality that goes behind that. Ask anyone nowadays and they will tell you that families have fallen apart, lives are being destroyed, people are more alienated from normal forms of conversation and have become more distanced in terms of relationships, despite new forms of communication that allow for constant status updating, connecting to one another through social media and an onslaught of instant notification through text messaging, email, cellular phones and other venues. Yet with all of these options at our fingertips, a true Believer can see these things and also see the amount of sin that society engages in as a whole. They willingly seem to love things that are contrary to God and furthermore purport through their trendy actions that nothing is wrong with the way they behave. They are without God, not only do their actions prove it, but by their actions they prove that they are brute beasts. Harsh? There are two passages of Scripture that has long spoke to my heart about today’s society. “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection,...
by admin | Feb 20, 2016 | Articles
“Peter, seeing him, said to Jesus, But Lord, what about this man? Jesus said to him, If I intend for him to remain till I come, what is that to you? You follow Me.” John 21:21-22 “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.” 2nd Corinthians 5:10 About a year ago my family and I were attending a conservative “bible-believing” KJV-Only Baptist church several miles from our home. We would faithfully pack in our car and head out early in the morning to be able to attend both Sunday School and the regular church service. We joined about 8-10 others who also came on a regular basis, some also having traveled some distance. Overall there were many things about the church that were noteworthy, there was no offering plate passed around, simply a box on the wall where one could offer a free-will offering. The church believed in repentance, often a foundational doctrine that is missing from most of America’s churches. The hymns and music was biblical, the demeanor of the pastor was one who took a stand towards Truth. Missing from the church were a podium for the pastor to stand on, decorations for the holiday season and other things that one would expect to see in regular Baptist churches, these were all benefits of someone who had looked into and sought out the Truth. Yet one Sunday morning, as we are still in a slight daze from having gotten...
by admin | Feb 18, 2016 | Articles
Nearly every day while reading the news I spot an article headline that depicts some sort of ‘evolutionary’ evidence portrayed to the reader as fact. The most recent headline that I spotted was that “humans and neanderthals had breed as recently as 50,000 years ago”. I quickly scuff off such nonsense, continuing to scan the headlines for an article that perks my interest. The problem is that these sorts of articles are written for those who are uneducated in the Truth of God’s Word. The average person will view the headline or read the article and thus have one more excuse not to believe God’s Word, one more reason to not consider their Salvation, one more thought as to why they can continue on as they are. A long time ago in Sunday school I listened as the teacher used an argument that evolution made about as much sense as a chair appearing out of nowhere in the room. A ridiculous argument you say? Have you ever checked into the evidence that the evolutionist have? I assure you if you do some digging, you will find that a chair appearing in a room on its own would take less faith to believe in then the assumptions that evolutionists and our supposed scientific community makes. I’m sure many readers would consider me an unscientific ignorant person, who believe in fairy-tales and old out-dated religious views, but I ask that you bear with me for yet another moment. I will wholly admit that I am not very scientific, I have not studied with the scholars at universities, I...
by admin | Feb 10, 2016 | Articles
By now most people have heard about the earthquake in Taiwan. As of this writing there are still people who are trapped alive underneath the debris of buildings and rescue workers are trying hard to get them out. A lot of tragedies never make but a brief mention in national or international news. Take a house fire that kills a family, a tornado that rips through part of a town or a car accident that renders people dead. In all of our local communities there are tragedies on nearly a weekly, if not daily basis. The bigger the city one lives in, the more common the tragedies become. On occasion we hear of really big tragedies. Take the 2004 tsunami in the Indian ocean that killed over 200,000 people. Throughout history there have been some very big disasters that have killed scores of people. Take the Black Plague for instance and the staggering number of lives that the disease claimed, estimated from 75 million upward to 200 million. I n America the biggest tragedies ever recorded was that of the Galveston hurricane in 1900. It is estimated that between 6,000 – 12,000 people died as a result of that storm. As I watched some videos of the devastation in Taiwan and the rescues workers hard to get to people, I couldn’t help but to get saddened at the need for the world to understand the necessity of accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior. Even as these men and women are pulled out of these buildings, with little life left in them,...
by admin | Feb 3, 2016 | Articles
Those who are in Christ, Christians, have many promises from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. There are also promises that Christ have given as a warning to those, that they might consider and be Saved. “I am the door. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.” John 10:9 “He who believes into Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” John 7:38 “Yet a little while and the world sees Me no more, but you see Me. Because I live, you will live also.” John 14:19 “Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed in Him, If you continue to abide in My Word, you are truly My disciples. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” John 8:31-32 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that everyone believing into Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. The one believing into Him is not judged; but the one not believing is judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” John 3:16-18 “He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still. And...
by admin | Jan 26, 2016 | Articles
“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many entering in through it. Because narrow is the gate and distressing is the way which leads unto life, and there are few who find it.” Matthew 7:13-14 “Then one said to Him, Lord, are there few who are saved? And He said to them, Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.” Luke 13:23-24 When I was a child I attended a Nazarene church on a regular basis. If my parents didn’t attend on Sunday the church bus would come and pick me and my sister up. There I met some really great people growing up and attended Sunday school. For what it is worth, more biblically sound doctrine was probably taught at that church then what is at many Baptist churches nowadays. It was at this same church that I would give my life to the Lord. At 9 years old during an alter call I would go forward and accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. Eventually my parents divorced and we move a few miles away. Here my family began to attend a Pentecostal church. With rock instruments up on stage, a pastor would preach his sermon and some well-to-do people who were given authority as Sunday school teachers, etc., we would go there for a couple of years. This was my first instance of seeing speaking in tongues. I never believed it and...
