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There’s a term going around — called “Easy-Believism.” Have you heard of it? If not, just take a look at the results that you get from google-ing that term. It’s a term that’s mostly used in a neg­a­tive way to fight a pop­u­lar trend here in the US. Easy-believism deals with the age old question: […]

excerpt: … My friend, as you read this next line, how exist your soul in this present time? Are you yet to be born? Have you already died? Are you well and happy? Have you recently cried? …

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Here’s a very cool visu­al­iza­tion project. Brad Thomas imported the NIV text1, one book at a time, with a cloud tool at Wordle.net. The result­ing images allow us to exam­ine word fre­quency. The larger the word, the more often it appears in that book of the Bible. This video walks through all sixty-six result­ing images. […]

There’s some won­der­ful ser­mons1 that are dig­ging into the teach­ings of Christ, as recorded in Matthew, chap­ter five. And he opened his mouth and taught them, say­ing: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the king­dom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be com­forted. Blessed are the meek, for they […]

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called chil­dren of God; and so we are. The rea­son why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s chil­dren now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but […]

Sal­va­tion starts with under­stand­ing our chief prob­lem — sadly, their are many that can not get past this first step. Here’s our chief prob­lem: We all live a lifestyle so offen­sive to God, that the scrip­tures describe us as hos­tile towards God — vir­tu­ally, ene­mies of our Cre­ator. (Rom 5:10) Wow! Pretty shock­ing isn’t it? […]

Below is the way the ESV has cho­sen to form para­graphs from a sec­tion of scrip­ture from the Ser­mon on the Mount. In order for you to see what thoughts I’m hav­ing about this sec­tion of scrip­ture, I would ask that you read this sec­tion a few times before read­ing fur­ther. “Judge not, that you […]

Do we become a Chris­t­ian and then just live until we die — hope­fully bring­ing oth­ers into the fam­ily of God before that finally hap­pens? Is the becom­ing of a Chris­t­ian the only spir­i­tu­ally impor­tant thing that hap­pens in our life? What is the Chris­t­ian life sup­posed to be about, once you have rec­og­nized God, […]

I ‘m so grate­ful for the sup­port and encour­age­ment that is pro­vided for us in one of the great­est insti­tu­tions ever estab­lished by our God — the local church. Here are some things that were impressed on my heart and mind from yesterday’s look at scrip­ture. I’m still pro­cess­ing and respond­ing to these things in […]