The Best Question One Can Ever Ask.

[The jailer] "brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." (Acts 16:30-31) hat must I do to be saved?" In the words of Cotton Mather [*]: "It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony." How deplorable truly it ...

Suffering? Devil’s Work or God’s Work?

lot of people in the "Christian world" today have this idea where they categorize circumstances that happen in our lives into two:1. Bad stuff = Devil's doing. 2. Good stuff = God's doing.And that way of thinking brings us to the sort of "Biblical" conclusion where preachers basically preach and say: "Ah! You're going through pain and misery because of the Devil's foothold in your life! Resist him and he will flee!"

I Have No Problem Worshiping a God Like That.

People go through so many things in so many different ways. We may have gone through similar adversities, but there's always that difference, the personal here and now experience that makes things hard. When people go through times of trouble and heart ache, as much as we, as their friends and loved ones, would desire to ease their pain and do stuff to do so, not much can actually be really done for them.

We Give Saints What Sinners Want.

here is this mentality in the Christian community today that, in a certain degree, the primary purpose of the Sunday Church meeting is to meet the needs of men and women. With that mentality, I whole-heartedly agree. Of course we preach, teach, exhort and encourage for the needs of the Saints, but, in the Church world today, sadly, the needs have lost it's proper definition, and it has caught a whole new one.

God is in Need of Nothing. Yet Why Do We See Him Otherwise?

God is in need of nothing. Yet why do we see Him otherwise? Why do people condescend to ideas that God wants "stuff" from us? Why do people retreat to their beliefs and traditions that say: "Love not freely given is simply rape!"---as if God needs our love. As if God needs our sinful tainted version of love. As if our concept of love would ever come in par with the eternal perfection of the ...