by admin | Oct 21, 2015 | Articles
Quite a long time ago I was working in a dairy cooler training a younger employee to unload milk pallets. Watching carefully for milk crates to come crashing down, that would send a deluge of milk toward us, our discussion went into Christianity. We had talked before, but this time I didn’t bring up Salvation, he did. Answering question after question I was fully explaining the Gospel and he was seemingly understanding it. I thought perhaps he would make a decision for God. Then the look came in his eyes, I knew he understood it, he knew…suddenly there was a large backlash. “You mean to tell me that my family and friends who have died are in Hell!!!!”, followed by a bleepitly-bleep. He had not asked about his friends or family, but when the sudden realization that without Jesus Christ as your Savior, without accepting Him, without repenting to God Almighty, one is deservingly condemned to Hell, became known to him, he had concluded such a fact. Such a fact is hard for many to swallow, yet in it is truth, those without Christ, yes even those whom you loved, yet have died, are in Hell. I stood there for a moment, a loss of words as he then stormed out of the walk-in cooler, slamming the door. The remainder of the time I would work in that grocery store we would never again have a conversation. While we would pass a few words between us, as necessary to complete our assigned tasks, there would be no conversation. To my former friend I had become odious....
by admin | Oct 14, 2015 | Articles
Editor: This article was originally published in June of 2011 on a different website. What is truly right or wrong? Is homosexuality? Is abortion? Is stealing? What about lying? Cheating? Adultery? Drunkenness? Who is to say what is right or wrong in your personal life? Gay people are now ‘out of the closest’ so it must be alright? If you should get pregnant and decide that you need to get a career first, is that really wrong? What if you need some food and steal some because you are hungry or just want to save some money? Everyone lies, so why not tell some lies here and there? Cheating doesn’t ‘hurt’ anyone does it? Your spouse doesn’t fulfill your desires or your marriage is not what you expected, so why not commit adultery? How about drinking a twelve pack tonight, are you really hurting anyone else? The above is moral relativism. Moral relativism is related to situational ethics, where a particular situation will determine if an action is right or wrong. According to situational ethics in some cases something that would normally be wrong may in that case be the right thing to do. Moral relativism is where each individual or group of people determine what is right and wrong. It is a ‘decide for yourself’ or ‘be yourself’ mentality. Essentially you make up your ‘own’ rules. In the past couple of generations the American education system as well as the entertainment industry has pushed heavily for moral relativism. In fact it has gotten to be the norm that now to keep values that are...
by admin | Oct 7, 2015 | Articles
The above is not the words that anyone would want to hear while standing before the Lord Jesus Christ. We are going to take a look at that whole section of Scripture and examine it. “Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many works of power in Your name? And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; depart from Me, you who work out lawlessness!” Matthew 7:21-23 Note that “many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast our demons in Your name, and done many works of power in Your name?”. This is extraordinary serious. While the last several articles have often mentioned or dealt with people who claim to be Christians, yet have never accepted Christ and are therefore lost, the above quotation from the Holy Scriptures states that these people not only claim to be Christian, but are also active in supposedly doing the work of Christ! Not only are these people active but they also achieve things, for instance they prophesize in His name, cast out demons in His name and do works of power in His name. To the world these people would have the appearance of being Christian, of being workers of God. To men they would be religious, those who are righteous, on the...
by admin | Sep 30, 2015 | Articles
Oh, sing unto Jehovah a new song! Sing unto Jehovah, all the earth. Sing unto Jehovah, bless His name; proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day. Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples. For Jehovah is great and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Jehovah made the heavens. Honor and majesty are before Him; strength and beauty are in His sanctuary. Ascribe unto Jehovah, O families of the peoples, ascribe unto Jehovah glory and strength. Ascribe unto Jehovah the glory due His name; bring an offering, and come into His courts. O bow down before Jehovah in the beauty of holiness! Tremble before Him, all the earth. Say among the nations, Jehovah reigns; the world also is firmly established, it shall not be shaken; He shall judge the peoples with equity. Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and all its fullness; let the field be joyful, and all that is in it. Then all the trees of the forests shall rejoice before Jehovah. For He is coming, for He is coming to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with His truth. Psalms 96 A lot of people would disagree with somebody telling them that they have been warned about seeking Salvation before it is too late. Some would tell you that they don’t fully understand how to seek Salvation, most would simply scoff at the idea and say that...
by admin | Sep 23, 2015 | Articles
What if today was the last day? What if you knew that there would be no tomorrow, that sudden death and destruction were upon you? What if it was just your last day, as you sit in a hospital bed, knowing that death is about to come? How many people go through out life knowing that they have to be right before God, but not ever spending the time to figure out exactly how to do that? Many people believe that there is a God, yet why will they not give Him the time of day to figure out what He requires of them? “For man does not see as He sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Jehovah looks at the heart.” 1st Samuel 16:7b Man’s logic is backwards. How many hours will be spent not only watching television, but watching a rerun that you have already seen, yet not picking up God’s Word and seeking Him? Do you not realize that the nagging feeling that you have about getting right with God is His warning to you that you ought to seek Him and find Salvation through His Son before it is too late? “The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is longsuffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” 2nd Peter 3:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I Jehovah search the heart, I examine the soul, even to give to each man according to his ways,...
by admin | Sep 16, 2015 | Articles
“For there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and with success; yet he shall leave it as inheritance to a man who has not labored in it. This also is vanity and a great evil.” Ecclesiastes 2:21 “For the living know that they shall die; but the dead do not know anything, nor do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, have now perished; nor do they ever any longer have a part in anything that is done under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 The American Dream, for many it has become the American Nightmare in the past several years. The idea is simple. After high school, go to college or get a good hard-working American job. Either way, once your career choice is established, meet the woman of your dreams, buy a house, have a family. From there take vacations to great places throughout your life, all while saving for retirement. Retire at a decently ‘young’ age and enjoy your later years without having to worry about money. Die. While the exact definition of the American dream may vary a bit, none of the versions include the last word, die. There is a reality behind it, nobody like to think about it, but we all know that eventually death will come to find us. We will all die. So what has happened in the past several decades in America to help alleviate this uncomfortable truth? The churches in America have grown in unison with...
