August 2012 Blog Posts (95)

Have you ever stopped to think about how many people you know, how many people you encounter in the course of your comings and goings, who want to find meaning and purpose for their lives?  (Read that sentence again.)  Friend, people are dying for the peace, hope and meaning we find in Jesus Christ. …

People dont want to hear the truth, no matter what it is, because they're not seeking truth. They're not open to truth. They wont acknowledge their sin, and they aren't interested in a savior, so they just sit back and criticize or get angry. Some people refuse to accept gospel truth before they even hear it.

Forcing an alignment of corporate resources

for some theory of best fit correlation

doesn't work on Kingdom People

when using an unspoken method of tabulation.



If Life is about true spiritual growth,

then why do ministries attempt to pigeon-hole

not making any allowances for us

to develop, expand and break our current mold?



Despite multitudes of outcome possibilities

the Church seems to suffer bouts of paralysis

from the continued mashing of…

Now that people are becoming more aware of my poetic efforts, interests are being expressed regarding the background of my poetry - in addition, to my spiritual muse. In this installment, I speak to a poem that ends in a direction, not initially considered...

I've attended Church services for more than 3.5 decades; as a youth, I was raised in a Baptist Church (in southern Maine). For those unfamiliar with this division of Christianity, there's nothing more important than studying "The…

Finding Truth and Seeking Understanding.  Keys to Effective Conversation

in a Christian Context. 

What Makes a Discussion "Real?" "Real" discussion relies on three key virtues: Faith, Hope, and Love. …

Tell them what you have experienced. John 9.10-34

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1. We need to sow good seed. (V.24)

2. The enemy will bring in obstacles (V.25)

3. Alongwith our good seed evil will rear its head (V.26)

4. We will share concern with God regarding evil (V.27)

5.We will seek God's permission to uproot evil (V.28)

6.God sovereignly decides the appropriate time to destroy evil (V.29)

7. God will segregate evil from good - evil to be destroyed, good to be gathered to him (V.30)

Determined,  unyielding,  hold fast;  what if we were  determined to chase after the things of God, instead of the things of this world?  What if we encouraged our children to be imitaters of Christ, instead of men?   What if our obsessions were reading Gods word, instead of covetousness and idolotry?  What if we were unyielding in our beliefs on marriage, what if we held fast to the promises of God?  Our tenacity was to finish the race set before us..  Our  worship reflected thankfulness,…

Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him,

“I am God Almighty; Walk before Me, and be blameless. 2 “I will establish My covenant between Me and you, And I will multiply you exceedingly.”

3 Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying,

4 “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, And you will be the father of a multitude of nations. 5 “No longer shall your name be called Abram, But your name shall be Abraham; For I…

Even when confronted by point blank with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ's deity some people refused to believe. Even today they are refusing. These eye witnessed all the miracles our Lord did but they refused as a matter of fact they did not only rejected Jesus, they plotted his murder. They were so hardened that they preferred to reject God's son rather than admit that they were wrong. Let us beware of PRIDE if we allow it to grow it can lead us into enormous sin.

Notice the change in John 9.  John 9.1-25

Let us look at the whole of the story, the transformation in the ‘blind man’s’ understanding of…

In these past weeks, I encountered different kinds of problems. Sometimes it makes me strong, sometimes its weight hides in me. It is compose of physical, emotional, spiritual and etc., different kind of problems but one solution, pray. But praying without work is dead. I always asked myself “what if?”, and somehow there’s always a part in my head telling me “you think too much”. I know myself than any other person, but still there’s some part of me I can’t understand. Having this kind of…