ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTION We all ask good questions. Sometimes we just don’t ask the right one, and the answer we need gets lost without us realizing we missed the mark. Many people today live their lives very casually. They mind their business, some smile at strangers, and others even help the needy bystander for… Read More Do You REALLY Need Jesus If You’re a Good Person?
PROMINENT RELIGION ARGUMENT A weak argument I’ve heard against Christianity is how it’s just a Western religion, that in other parts of the world there are different prominent religions, and basically, depending on where you’re born and raised, you might be invited or even pressured to join whatever religion is most practiced in that particular… Read More Christianity’s Global War: The Threat of Faith in a Jesus-Hating World
IMPASSIONING TRUE BELIEVERS To God be the glory, forever and ever, amen. The above is how we need to be positioning our heart before everything we do, say, and think. And… we all fail to do this, more often than we want to admit, myself included. Now, a more critical person may believe posing such… Read More Answering the Knock of Eternity: To God Be the Glory
CHRISTIAN HYPOCRISY Christianity is often misunderstood to be something it’s not. Perhaps the most common argument for this misunderstanding is usually founded upon claims of Christian hypocrisy; that is, any person who claims to have faith in Jesus, but who lives just like a person without faith. Notably, arguments for hypocritical behavior are most laid… Read More Examining “Christian Hypocrisy”: Understanding Spiritual Fruit & Self-Denial
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF GOD’S PRESENCE If our heart is facing the right direction, thankfulness and gratitude are close by, and in overflow. Life is full of surprises. Some good, others not so much. God allows both to occur to everyone. He rains on the righteous and the unrighteous alike. He loves everyone, but not everyone loves… Read More Thankfulness that Fills Our Hearts… & Not Just Our Plates
WHAT’S KEEPING YOU? If everyone you loved and knew as a Christ-follower all at once denounced their faith, or, if they simply rejected the Gospel and never decided to come to Christ to begin with, would their decision to reject Jesus cause you to turn away from your faith as well? We can’t casually allow… Read More Hate Our Family? What Does Luke 14:26 Mean?
FOR STARTERS The distorted and damaging lies about Jesus that convince nonbelievers to reject the free gift of salvation through the grace of God are reasons in themselves to write passionately about the truth of Christianity. Spiritual rebirth (which occurs by faith in Christ leading to receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit through water… Read More Stumbling On the Path of Discovering the Truth of God: The Choice Which Matters Most
It’s impossible to be a Christian and not clothe ourselves with Christ (Romans 13:14). Many call themselves Christians, but few choose to be “buried” in Christ (Romans 6:4) by leaning into what it means to deny ourselves the way Jesus commands us to (Matthew 16:24). His blood cleanses our conscience of our sins and washes… Read More Putting On Christ: Radical Preparation for Eternity
SPIRITUAL WAR BEHIND THE CURTAIN OF REALITY After spending years in the world, it becomes natural to view life as it appears to the naked, unawakened spiritual eye: We only see the characteristics of a corporeal, empirical reality with nothing in-between that and the mystery of the unseen. So we’re not alert. We’re unprepared. We’ve… Read More Picking Up Our Cross… Denying Ourselves Is Just the Beginning: Part 2
THE PARTS OF OURSELVES WE’RE DENYING Christianity runs deep. It’s not for those who prefer to smile and go about their day suffering in silence. Jesus didn’t tell us to pick up our cross and hide behind it, but to pick it up and follow Him (Matthew 16:24). After all, Christianity isn’t a religion of… Read More Picking Up Our Cross… Denying Ourselves Is Just the Beginning: Part 1
