Selfishness is sin. Sexism is sin. Treating people like they are our slaves is not love. God is love. I love that Jesus told his disciples to not be like the leaders in the world who seek to rule over others, that the greatest among them would be a servant. Jesus encouraged MUTUAL ...
“Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience . . . without God there is a coarsening of the society; without God democracy will not and cannot long endure. . . . If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone ...
The part that is missing is God is not requiring us to be friends with, date, or marry people who are consumers in our lives. The “God is so proud of you, yet ask nothing of me in return,” is a way for people to make sure they or their church/ministry are benefited with littl...
That’s how stiff and painful my hands were. As he was pulling them on, we were trying to encourage each other by laughing, but then my tears suddenly came pouring out at the frustration of where my life is right now. In that moment, God spoke to me through Rich’s reminder, “the...
is God Himself. Yet when I say that God is redeemed, I do NOT mean that God is a sinner who needs to be redeemed from sin, death, and the devil. No, when I think about God being redeemed, I am referring specifically to how we humans have tried to use Scripture, theology, and ...
Today, from my own hurt I can tell you, there are no quick and easy fixes for a broken heart. But, there is hope for healing. There is faith for the doubter. There is love for the lonely. These treasures won’t be found under a Christmas tree or in a family tradition, or even...
God knows the heart of man. If God acts in accord with His own perfect will, then He will be hardening men’s hearts because they are stubborn and hard hearted. The natural process is simply man’s stubborn pride rebelling against God and His children. If you are in an unequally yoke...
They were always chosen out of the local congregation they were going to serve in, and they had to be spiritually mature individuals, well grounded in both Scripture and the Faith. But as long as the Worldwide Church of God remained under the direct gentle loving control and leadership of ...
And as we allow the light of Christ to illumine our minds and hearts we are changed into his image and reflect his glory. The moon is a giant reflector of the light of the sun. It has no light in itself. Like the moon, we have no moral light in ourselves. Through the Spirit we ...
The author relates at least 10 different places in the Bible where 8 is meaningful. Mentioning just one of the early ones, eight people on the arc were saved out of the flood. You should read the rest of examples in Scripture. As a teaser, David was Jesse’s eighth and last son. ...