The Gospel Of Repentance

I'll ask the question a second time. Will things in this life ever get better? That depends upon your position in Christ. Many are trying their best to improve our environment and our world. Let me explain. For instance, we have environmentalists and others who want us to recycle, drive eco-friendly cars, ride on fuel efficient buses so that we do not pollute more our already contaminated environment; do not cut down any more trees so that we do not lose our supply of oxygen, pay our bills electronically so that we do not have to be sent a paper bill in the mail and the list goes on. All of these things are good gestures and should be applauded. We should do whatever it takes to preserve and use of our natural resources wisely. It is good stewardship however, in the end all these efforts will come to naught.                                                 While I am not trying to sound cynical, we as human beings will never be able to save the planet. No matter how many “smar

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men because all sinned.                                                                                                                                                                                 -Romans 5:12 If one understands what Paul the apostle is teaching here, we would conclude God is not being fair. Let me explain. Paul is saying because of the original sin of Adam back in the Garden of Eden, all of his descendants sinned as well. But how someone may ask. Because we were all in the loins of Adam when he committed the sin. God imputed or transferred our original father’s sin nature to all of us. We are guilty by association. David in Psalm 51:5 hit this reality on the head when he said, “I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me”.                                         `Even a newborn child no matter how beautiful, cuddly and p

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