The Gospel Of Repentance

The U.S Supreme Court made a monumental ruling on Friday June 26 th , 2015. In a 5-4 decision between the Supreme Court Justices, legislation was passed legalizing same sex marriages nationwide. Translating my title of the article from numeric to alpha it equals five is greater than three hundred million. Simply meaning that five judges made a decision that affects over three hundred million Americans.    In the eyes of many Americans especially homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders, this infamous decision was most liberating. They have declared not legalizing same sex marriage as unfair and bigoted. Anyone who disagrees with their lifestyle is regarded as intolerant and homophobic. They have every right to hate our lifestyle (true believers) without us retaliating, but when we disagree with theirs we are homophobic? That’s a double standard.   The state of California on November 4 th , 2008 [1]   voted for acknowledging marriage as only between a man and a woman which

All of us often wonder why we go through hard times don’t we? Yes we do. Some of it is our own doing, bad choices we make. Some of it is sovereignly brought about by God Almighty to test, try and prove us in a particular area of our lives – that our faith in Him might increase (Gen 22; James 1:2-4,12). And sadly, there are times that people do harmful things to us, and our love ones that bring suffering in our lives.  The word suffer has various meanings in the Bible. One meaning is to permit. Another meaning is to be ill-treated, to suffer injustice, to bear up under, to endure hardship, etc. Well, let’s look at some examples in God’s word of those that suffered. Job’s Suffering In the book of Job, God allowed Satan to afflict Job (Job 1 & 2). This suffering was divinely ordained. Oddly though, Job never knew why he suffered so much although his so-called friends claimed they had the answers to why he did.  Neither Job nor his companions knew God and Satan had a di

Let me ask the reader a question. Is it easy or hard to get into heaven?  A lot of preachers tell parishioners to walk down the aisle of the church if they want to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.  Someone in a prayer/counseling room will pray for them using what Is called a “Sinners Prayer”. Is this Biblical? Others just tell someone simply to “believe in Jesus”, and they are saved. Is it that simple? Just believe in Jesus? There is essentially nothing wrong with any of these methods as long as all the blanks are filled in. That is what I will attempt to do in this article. The best sermon ever preached on how one enters heaven was by the Lord Jesus Christ himself. To find out what he preached, we need to go what is called the Sermon on the Mount. In Matthew 5:3-11 Jesus teaches on what are called the Beatitudes. In verse 3 Jesus says, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven”. What does this mean? It means someone who knows t

Many believe hell is not a real place. Some say heaven and hell are right here on earth. Others say hell is a state of mind; while others are appalled at the idea that God would send anyone there because God is a God of love, and man is basically good. And then there are some that actually say they want to go to hell because all their friends will be there and they can party forever. Really? As always our guide for all truth is the Bible. The Bible declares hell to be an actual place. The Hebrew word of hell is the word sheol. It means the abode of the dead. It also means the grave and also for those who are being forever tormented for their sins. The main NT Greek word for hell is Gehenna.  Hell is eternal separation from God whereas heaven is eternal life with the Father God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit all the redeemed, and the holy angels.                                                                   Did Jesus teach on hell? In a word yes. This may shock most people, but J