* Was Halloween originally a pagan or a Christian holiday?
Mission trip basics
A popular proverb says one small good deed is better than the thousand grandest thoughts. Mission trip travel applies rightly to this saying. Traveling on mission requires traveling not for ones own joy and recreation but for much more noble
Muhammad Cartoon & Free Speech
The uproar over the recently republished Muhammad cartoons has many in the Muslim community in an uproar. Is this a fair response or should free speech be protected at all costs?
Old Earth Belief
Have you ever been to a church that claimed that the earth is young? Have you ever felt pressured into believing in a young earth, even though you felt the scientific evidence was contrary to a young earth? Have you ever thought that in order to be a Christian, you had to deny science, and believe in a young earth? You are not alone. Many churches preach that the earth is young, and many require you to profess this belief through their statement of faith, which includes a wor…
Prayer And Life Direction
Dear Daughter,
In my last letter I shared some thoughts about how to give your life direction. I would like to continue those thoughts. There is another important factor that shapes our lives. That factor is our spirituality, or our relationship with God.
If you pray and ask God to use you and your life for his purposes, your prayers will be answered, if you are sincere. This is a submission to God and a willingness to walk through opened doors, or opportunities, to se…
Prayer Is The Best Thing!
Prayer definitely works and is still working today as it did thousands of years ago. There are many that have experienced it’s power.
Just when you wonder when are things going to get better…prayer gets answered! And most of the time it will be better results than what you imagined! A powerful true experience of what prayer can do for those who have faith in it and in God.
I was really getting to the point of utter frustration involving the numerous business ventures …
Religion: Institution Or Revolution?
In writing any article about religion you run the risk of people not agreeing with you or the risk of offending people. Does that mean we should not write about religion? Absolutely not.
Should we worry that people might be offended? No. We should not go out of our way to offend people, but as long as you write your true beliefs, then you are doing what is in your heart and should share that with others.
For many churches, Christianity and religion have become instituti…
Religious Dating – Traditions and Values
Dating someone with the same religious beliefs as you, can often result in a rewarding relationship where both you and your partner can share in the same values and traditions.
The Frog In The Pot: Complacency costing us our rights, our families, our souls
No doubt you’ve heard the story of the Frog in the Pot: If a frog is dropped into a pot of scalding water, it will sense the danger and immediately jump out. However, if a frog is dropped into a pot of tepid water and the water temperature is gradually raised, the frog will succumb rather than trying to escape. Well, people are similar in behavior. Call it gradualism or complacency, it’s happening to the citizens of the U.S. and many other countries. Give us little doses of anything, and we…
The New Christian Belief Coaching
Christian Belief or Life Coaching can be traced to both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, that teach, people do what they do because they believe what they believe, i.e., As a man thinks in his heart so is he. (Proverbs 23:7)
This alternative to traditional Christian counseling is not built on personal therapeutic skills or abilities, but rather on the powerful truth of the Word of God that counters the lies people have unfortunately believed. If a hurting perso…
Twenty First Century Lies The Slaughtering of Accountability
Innumerable lies are told everyday by individuals throughout the earth. Two great lies have been told to all the earth in this century that make all of the other lies seem like a pittance. What are those lies?
Where’s Isaac?
In Genesis God tests Abrahams faith by telling him to offer up his son Isaac as a sacrifice (Gen 22:1-19). Abraham was faithful and God intervened at the last moment. This is a story most of us are familiar with and you might have noticed a similarity between this event and what God does through His own Son in the New Testament. In both events a father is offering up his only son as a sacrifice for others. Casually reading the Genesis account you might have thought that the …