by admin | Dec 8, 2015 | Articles
Perhaps to become a student of history, one would really be a student of historical lies. Many people have quoted that the winners write history and indeed it is true, but also the conquerors control the writings of men. What happens when all of the books that someone reads are approved by the ‘winners’ or ‘conquerors’. “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister for the Nazi Regime People are easily manipulated, easily swayed. Oftentimes people do not think for themselves, but go on with the ‘flow’ of things. Yet if they would stop and look around, considering for a moment, then maybe their eyes would be open to the fact that much of what they consider truth is actually lies. The debate rages on about so-called gun control. Yet who is really behind this debate? The big media? The New York Times with their front page story about gun control and violence. Who runs the New York Times or these other vain talking mouths that people watch day in and day out? Our media is controlled, it is full of lies and nobody seems to...
by admin | Nov 29, 2015 | Articles
“Is there not one father to us all? Has not one Mighty God created us?” Malachi 2:10a “For I am a great King, says Jehovah of Hosts, and My name is feared among the nations.” Malachi 1:14b “And it shall be, that whoever will not go up from the families of the earth to Jerusalem to bow down before the King, Jehovah of Hosts, even upon them there shall be no rain.” Zechariah 14:17 The distractions of this world are never ending. Constantly we are bombarded with news about the latest trendy thing to do, some shooting somewhere, scenes of ill dressed women, sports clips, advertising to buy this and that. The American Dream, the focus of many not just in America, but across the world is a HUGE distraction. All too often we focus on what we can see, not what we cannot see with our eyes. “For now we see through a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall fully know just as I also am fully known.” 1st Corinthians 13:12 Yet there are certain things that people do out of reverence and respect, social norms of society. While there are some who refuse they partake in what is deemed acceptable, those people are considered social outcasts, misfits and evil people. When it a courtroom is it acceptable to have an outburst causing the judge to warn that any further commotion will result in immediate removal from the courtroom and jail time? While sitting in church, is it respectable, decent or...
by admin | Nov 15, 2015 | Articles
“But be doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.” Jacob (James) 1:22 I don’t know how many times I would hear a great sermon, study the Word of God, have a Bible study or late night discussions with friends about God, Jesus, being a Christian, etc., with this nagging knowledge that there were many things that had to be cleaned up in my life. Indeed I was a Christian, I was Saved, but I was living more like the world, there was sin in my life and I knew that one day I would have to stop and repent. How many times does a Believer have to say that ‘I know I need to do that’? God called us to be separate from this world and in Jesus Christ our lives are supposed to be His. While we know that no man is perfect and none of us are without sin, we also know what God expects, what Christ did for us and should be well aware of how we ought to behave. Yet it is sin that keeps us not producing much fruit or in some cases, not producing fruit at all for many years. “Therefore, Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.” 2 Corinthians 6:17 “I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you in Christ Jesus, that you were enriched in everything in Him in all utterance and all knowledge, even as the testimony of Christ...
by admin | Nov 7, 2015 | Articles
An individual accepts the gift of Salvation from their Creator, through repentance and believing into Jesus Christ their Savior, they now have become followers of Christ, they have become Christians. Yet now the battle has just begun. What is required of a Christian? What characteristic attributes should be found in those who are in Christ? What works are befitting those who are Saved? Is it simply that an individual gets Saved and then goes on with their life as they did before, with the exception of now keeping the commands of God? How does a Believer know what God desires? How does one in Christ know what commands to keep? Is it even possible for one who is Saved to continue on with little change in their life permanently? Should not the one who was pardoned now spring forth into life, rejoicing at their liberty in Jesus, proclaiming that Salvation is through no other name? A young boy is a regular amongst the elderly in Bucharest, Romania. This lad helps old women with taking out their rubbish on a weekly basis. He does well in school and as he grows up is known to be a ‘good boy’. Yet he is now a man and as a man who gets into partying with the other people his age. In less than a year he is sitting in a smashed BMW awaiting the police to put handcuffs on him. He is drunk, has made a girl who wants nothing to do with him pregnant, now is covered in tattoos and has just ran over two young children...
by admin | Nov 1, 2015 | Articles
“Therefore do not be partakers with them.” Ephesians 5:7 So what happens when one finally comes to the realization of what being a Christian is really about and strives to follow Jesus wholeheartedly? Suddenly nearly every church is wrong in many things, your neighbors, family, friends, acquaintances are also not doing what God commanded, they are not followers of Christ, they are lost, the unsaved. What happens when you realize that you seem to be all alone? A Christian is a disciple of Christ, we are to imitate His life, we follow Him. “Therefore be imitators of God as beloved children.” Ephesians 5:1 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” 2nd Corinthians 5:17 “…You follow Me.” John 21:22b We should not look at what another Christian is doing, but we ourselves follow after Jesus, we do what He commands us to do. One of those things we are commanded to do is to be separated from the world. “Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people. Therefore, Come out from among them and...
by admin | Oct 27, 2015 | Articles
truth, n. 1.) The quality or state of being true; trueness, as (a) conformity to facts or reality, as of statements to facts, words, to thoughts, motives or actions to professions; exact accordance with what is, has been, or shall be; (b) the quality or state of being made or constructed true or exact; exact adherence to a model; accuracy of adjustment, exactness; (c) in the fine arts, the proper and correct representation of any object in nature, or of whatever subject may be under treatment; (d) habitual disposition to speak only what is true; veracity; freedom from falsehood; (e) honesty; sincerity; virtue; uprightness; (f) disposition to be faithful to one’s engagements; fidelity; constancy; (g) genuineness; purity. 2.) That which is true, as (a) a fact; a reality; a verity; the opposite of falsehood; (b) that which conforms to fact or reality; the real or true state of things; (c) a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, a fixed law, or the like; (d) divine command; the doctrines of the gospel. Webster’s Universities Dictionary of the English Language, Webster, 1942 I’m in my mid-to-late thirties, my father was many years older than my mother, he died at age 87 nearly 7 years ago. I’ve seen those of the hippy generation, I know my generation, I work with the younger generation and because of my father’s age, when I was young, I spent much time with the senior senior-citizens. I spent much of my late childhood talking to some of my neighbors who were much older than I. I have worked nearly...
