Archive for August, 2007
What Motivates You?
Let your primary motivation be the still, small voice of the Holy Spirit.The advertising industry knows you very well. Billions of dollars have been invested in determining what impressions will motivate you to spend your hard-earned dollars. The television ads are written and directed to catch your attention. The magazine advertisements use the images that […]
Made For a Purpose
Live life on purpose, not by accident.Knowing where you came from makes a huge difference in your life. Let’s say you believed that you were the product of some cosmic accident. No intelligent design was involved in this world or your life. Things “just happened,” and you just happen to be here. When you believe […]
Caring in Action
Make sure your carring includes doing.Everyone usually looks so nice at church. The clothes are clean, the hair is combed, and the breath is fresh. This makes for a nice Normal Rockwell portrait, but it isn’t God’s intention for Christianity. Forget these notions of such a sterile environment. God wants you getting down and dirty […]
Question: The other night I watch a National Geographic Special called “The Secrets of Revelation”. I was concerned over the last part of the program where they stated that the Rapture is not mentioned once in Revelation, and then went on to say that the Rapture was from one of the earlier authors of […]
Question: Is there a Biblical problem with being cremated instead of being buried? Some people are against cremation, and I was wondering if there are any Biblical reasons to back up their argument.
Answer: We can’t find any biblical objections to cremation. It certainly is the tradition of the church, perhaps stemming from […]
Question: I believe that a person needs to believe Jesus is the Son of God in order to be saved and go to Heaven. What about the people who don’t know about Him? Or the people who believe in Buddha, or the Jewish people who don’t believe Jesus is the Messiah. […]
Question: I belong to a church where the slogan is, “Open Hearts–Open Minds–Open Doors.” I do not have a problem accepting people with alternate lifestyles into the church, and I don’t have a problem worshiping with someone who is, in my opinion, living in a way that goes against Scripture. But I […]
Question: I’ve always wondered why David picked up five smooth stones in order to face Goliath (see 1 Samuel 17:40). Did this mean he didn’t have enough faith to believe that God would only need one stone to defeat Goliath?
Answer: Even though David was depending on God in his confrontation with Goliath, […]
Adversity
God will wither protect you from hardships or give you the strength to go through them. Either way, you’re covered.
People with a naive view of God often think that He will insulate their life from hardshipos. if that were true, then everyone in the world would turn to God. But He doesn’t […]
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