by admin | Jan 17, 2016 | Articles
Recently a coworker told me that he would give me one-million dollars if he won the Powerball jackpot. At the time the prize was 1.4 billion dollars, eventually making it to 1.6 billion dollars. Indeed the largest jackpot in the history of mankind. So much money that one would instantly be wildly rich and my coworker, like people throughout the entire country, was having conversations with others for days about what he would do with all of that money. My response to him made him stop for a moment. I replied that I did not want the money. He shrieked out a “what do you mean you wouldn’t want it, a million bucks!?” Exactly, I didn’t want it, I didn’t care. Of course I have bills I could pay off, I could buy a house, I could do this or that, but what I could do at the moment is no longer stand to listen to such nonsense. While the odds where overwhelming that this man would still just be a cook, with 1 in 292 million, the reality was that men and women just like him where having conversations and thoughts about what they would do should the money-gods be on their side. He wasn’t alone, in fact I was the outsider, I was the one who didn’t care to participate in such worthless talk and the one who would honestly tell him to keep his money should he become the winner. I replied to him that I wouldn’t take the money, I would simply give it away, it was a distraction, a hassle...
by admin | Jan 9, 2016 | Articles
The other day while at work I was having a brief conversation with a coworker who was discussing his plans for the future. Having had talked to him about the need for Salvation in the past, he finished stating what he was going to say and I interjected about how even if he got everything he wanted he would still be lost and doomed, what then would it matter? Instead of simply brushing it off, he responded that he would take care of that later in life, not now. Right now he was going to live his life. Well what if there is not a later time? What if that day was the day of Salvation for him? What if he had chosen the world over Christ and an opportunity to accept the Savior through repentance and believing into Him never again became available? “For He says: In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you. Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” 2nd Corinthians 6:2 …”testifying both to Jews, and also to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.” Acts 20:21 “For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” Matthew 16:26 The question is how many people go throughout life with the exact same philosophy. They believe there is a God, they know that somehow they have to get right with Him,...
by admin | Jan 6, 2016 | Articles
“Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful.” 1st Corinthians 4:1-2 What is required of a Christian? As a Believer grows in Christ, more and more they will realize that the need for the armor of God is a very serious matter. There is most certainly a war raging and the Christian must follow their Savior Jesus Christ. I would recommend Little Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, a book which may be read of no charge HERE. In America our persecution generally differs greatly from those in other countries. For instance: Those who profess Christ in India and follow Him, as commanded, are often brutally murdered, their wives ravished and then also murdered and their children are no exception. I have read of stories where Christian families are burned alive, as spectators revile in pleasure, pleasing their Hindu gods. Despite the fact that there are apparently 330 million gods and goddesses, there is no room for the Most High and His Son. Travel to Syria and ISIS makes the news, now commonly known. How many people who profess to serve Christ are beheaded? This of course does not suggest how many are actually servants of the Most High, but certainly shows the militancy towards that. Yet not far away in neighboring Iran there are also prices to pay. Street justice comes and takes its form as a mob against those who proclaim to be Christians and would dare practice such religion. Strong beatings, maiming, death and imprisonment are not...
by admin | Dec 29, 2015 | Articles
But we never can prove the delights of His love Until all on the altar we lay For the favor He shows, and the joy He bestows Are for them who will trust and obey — Trust and Obey This article will have minimum commenting. The thought here is to provide some Scripture, some definitions and simply let those who know Christ to sit and ponder their ways. “And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested Him, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said to him, What is written in the Law? How do you read it? So he answered and said, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” Luke 10:25-27 “Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God, Jehovah is one. And you shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart, with all your soul, exceedingly in every way. And these Words which I am commanding you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.” Deuteronomy 6:4-9 “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but...
by admin | Dec 23, 2015 | Articles
“But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with giddiness, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come upon you unexpectedly. For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.” Luke 21:34-35 “For man also does not know his time; as the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.” Ecclesiastes 9:12 “For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks into a netting. The snare takes him by the heel, and the noose takes hold of him. A rope is hidden for him on the ground, and a trap for him in the path.” Job 18:8-10 There are trappings everywhere, yet as this discussion begins, understand that without Jesus as your Lord and Savior you are already trapped, doomed and on your way to Hell. Without Christ, all is lost, nothing is gain. “But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss because of Christ.” Philippians 3:7 There is a prevalence in society of drunkenness, drug abuse and a partying lifestyle associated with all sorts of sexual immorality and debauchery. Even in small town America, hardly a week goes by without a high speed police chase, a stabbing, a shooting, a murder, armed robbery or some off the wall crime that is usually committed by someone who is on drugs, most commonly meth....
by admin | Dec 15, 2015 | Articles
Can a nation avoid the Judgment of the Almighty God? Can any country on the face of the earth, dare to call itself a Christian country, yet behave in a blasphemous way forever? “Am I a God near by, says Jehovah, and not a God afar off? Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Jehovah. Do I not fill the heavens and earth? says Jehovah.” Jeremiah 23:23-24 “And there is no creature that is not revealed in His presence, but all things are naked and laid bare to the eyes of Him to whom we must give answer.” Hebrews 4:13 “These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.” Matthew 15:8 “Therefore Jehovah said, Whereas this people draw near with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men; therefore, behold, I will again do among this people something extraordinary and wonderful. For the wisdom of their wise ones shall perish, and the understanding of their intelligent ones shall be hidden. Woe to those who are profound to hide their counsel from Jehovah! And their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? And, Who knows us? O your perversity! Shall the former be esteemed as the potter’s clay; for shall the product say of him who made it, He did not make me? Or shall the thing formed say to him...
