We need to serve the mission of the Kingdom. We need to understand, first what the mission is, and then take steps to align our hearts, minds and actions to the way of the mission of Jesus. Going to church worship services is a very good thing. I wish more people would go to ...
Have we ever thought about going to church? Or even praying? In this day and age how do we connect to God? Or should I ask, do we still make an effort to connect to God? Because of the fast growing popularity of the internet, some evangelical groups have tapped into this medium to...
to use this verse as a means of neglecting the poor, as though, if we ‘give to Jesus’ (or the church) we need not concern ourselves with the plight of the poor. Nor should we use the passage to construct a hierarchy of values with respect to our giving. Better, I think, simply...
Jesus’s brother James gives us the definition of pure religion. It has nothing to do with perfect theology, going to church, the church building, or even your morning/evening devotions. It has to do with servitude and not following the selfish ways of the world. “Pure and undefiled reli...
I was raised up in the church with my brother and my two sisters. My mother made sure that we were in church every time the doors was open. As I got older I started doing my own thing (going to church was just to see what I could get into). I started selling weed to some of...
2 Peter 1:20 – interpreting Scripture is not a matter of one’s own private interpretation. Therefore, it must be a matter of “public” interpretation of the Church. The Divine Word needs a Divine Interpreter. Private judgment leads to divisions, and this is why there are 30,000 differen...
I would maintain, moreover, that the sacraments, Baptism and Eucharist, take the place in the Church of the miracles performed by Jesus Christ in the period of the Incarnation. And yet I am going to show in the following pages that I subordinate Tradition to Scripture....
To try to be more self-disciplined, we establish habits to aid in godliness, like regular times of reading the Bible or prayer, church attendance, etc. And that’s a good thing. But we all know what it is to have days when we’re just going through the motions, when our eyes are ...
"Belief in the perspicuity of the Bible is ancient, going back to Jesus himself, who reproached the scribes and Pharisees, for not understanding the plain meaning of the text. As a doctrine, the perspicuity of Scripture was expressed by many of the Church Fathers, who contrasted it with...
When we come to the New Testament, the Jews are still celebrating those feasts and Acts 2:1 tells us that it was on the feast day of Pentecost that the Holy Spirit came to live in the believers in Jesus Christ. That is the day we celebrate as the Birthday of the Church. The timing...