January 2011 Blog Posts (93)

Have you ever been on the defense for your faith?  Anyone ever said anything like this to you-- ‘You Christians—you’re so arrogant, believing that Jesus is the only way to God…’?  I know what Jesus said to such a statement—and so we can reply with, ‘Well, actually, I didn’t say it, Jesus did—“I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no man comes to the Father except through me.”1   I didn’t say it; Jesus’ words are recorded in Scripture, and I guess that’s good enough for me.’  A…

Look around. Can you see someone that is suffering? Of coarse there are the obvious thinsgs like people in Hospitals, people confined to wheelchairs, someone on crutches, or a terrible rash that is visable. But can you recognise the person who suffers from a broken marriage, a deadly illness, or a broken heart?…

About 2 months ago I purchased a brand new Windows 7 phone.  As I mentioned before, I am a programmer by trade.  So I got this phone so I could write “Apps” on it.  Well around Christmas time I wrote a free app that is GODSurfer related.  Basically it is really simple.  The app displays the current Prayers listed on the site and allows the users of the app. to add their own prayer.

As you may or may not know, when a prayer is added.  Both the…

Why all this talk about Scripture? There’s the historical scope of Scripture, the inspirational and instructional value of God’s Word, and brief insight into the various translations that abound .  .  . now what?  Is that it?  Actually, no.

Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.   Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”1  God’s Word tells us how we got here, who we are, who we are purposed to be, how to live life, and even how to…

God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and matures in us, so that we're free of worry on Judgment Day—our standing in the world is identical with Christ's. There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life—fear of death, fear of judgment—is one not yet fully formed in love. We, though, are…

So, we’ve looked at changing our thinking, noting that just to say, ‘Okay, I’m not going to think about THAT anymore’ really doesn’t work too well; instead, we must replace our thoughts with more positive thoughts—like those from the Bible.  We’ve also looked at elevating our thoughts by standing on the promises of God.  But just to consider Scripture inspirational is not enough to know about the written Word of God.

What exactly is contained in the Bible?  Sixty-six books—39 in the…

Love is patient and kind, Love is not envious, boastful or rude, I is not selfish, or easily provoked. It thinks no evil; rejoices not in iniquity but rejoices in the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hope in all things, endures all things. LOVE NEVER FAILS.Aand now, faith, hope and love abide, these three; but the greatest of all is Love.  1Corinthians 13:4-8,…

One day a young lady was driving along with her father.

They came upon a storm, and the young lady asked her father, What should I do?"

He said "keep driving".  Cars began to pull over to the side, the storm was getting worse.  

"What should I do." The young lady asked?

"Keep driving," her father replied.

Up ahead, she noticed that eighteen wheelers were also pulling over.  She told her dad, "I must pull over, I…

My canned goods are stored in a pantry; when my boys turn up their noses at the evening’s dinner offering, they know they can look on the lefthand shelf, thigh-high, and opt for some variety of soup.  In “Campbell’s Soup Thinking,” I proposed that you and I can take control of our thinking by removing an errant thought, (just like a can of soup) and putting it on a shelf, and then choosing a…

~ By Mark Gorman

First, let me say “Happy New Year”. I pray that the coming year will be your best yet.

In the past few years, I’ve been hearing more and more Christians and Ministry Leaders speak of…

Read the Scripture: Mark 9:30-50

Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all" (Mark 9:35).

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Ok. I have two testimonies that has happened to me within the past two days. God has been showing Himself more to me in ways that I couldn't imagine. For the past week, I have been praying and praying and praying and studying the Word. The prayers really paid off. What you're about to read is true, and I am the personal witness of these events; God was performing these miracles, so of course He was there.

The First…