Browsing all 16 posts in random thoughts.
05/17/12
What is my purpose in life? What is Gods calling for me? What am I here to do? This is something I have struggled with for years. Well, I want to share with you a book that I recently found that has helped me to start to figure all this out in my own life. [...]
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03/27/12
I do not like emotional appeals to follow Christ or worship services that are overly emotional in nature. I believe that emotions lie in that context. A person comes to salvation when God produces faith and scripture teaches that “faith comes from hearing the Word of God” (Romans 10:17). What is needed for people to [...]
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03/16/12
We must always remember that our God is Sovereign. Jesus could not have taught us about the sovereignty of God with anymore clarity than he did in Luke 12:6-8 when He said, “ Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God. Why, even the hairs of [...]
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03/12/12
I sometimes hear people say that “God will not ever give us more than we can handle” but that is not true or Biblical. I think that people often get that statement from an incorrect interpretation of 1 Corinthians 10:13. That scripture is referring to temptation and not hardship. “No temptation has overtaken you except [...]
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02/27/12
One of my favorite theologians is Jonathan Edwards. “if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out [...]
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02/24/12
I want to talk about why it is a denial of Christ to look upon someone with disapproval who has lived their entire lives in gross sin only to be converted at the hour of their death. Those who are concerned about why a murderer should receive the same as someone who has lived a [...]
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02/07/12
Have you ever thought for a minute about how exciting it is to know that angels are watching over our lives? The writer of Hebrews 1:14 says that angels are ministering spirits sent out to serve those who will inherit salvation. If you do a thorough study of Scripture you will find that Angels are [...]
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02/02/12
“That which is often asked of God, is not so much His Will and way, as His approval of our way.” S.F. Smiley
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02/01/12
As soon as we are in God in faith and in love, we are in prayer Fenelon
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01/30/12
“Today we see more and more that all the suffering in the world has started from home. Today we have no time even to look at each other, to talk to each other, to enjoy each other, and still less to be what our children expect from us, what the husband expects from the wife, [...]
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