Posted in Ethics, Obedience to Christ, Victor's Articles on May 26th, 2009 12 Comments »
What do you think? What are the traits of a humble person? How do you know that you’re being humble? We know Jesus wants us to be humble, but how can we know when we truly are there? Do you agree with Mark Driscoll that we are prideful people working on being humble?
Posted in Age to Come, cross, Death is Sleep, Holy Spirit, Messiah Jesus, Obedience to Christ, Resurrection, Ron's Articles, Salvation, The Cross of Christ, truth on April 11th, 2009 No Comments »
Here’s part THREE of the four part booklet – The Two Adams, by Homer D. Baxter. This is the first half of Part II – with the last half of it (or the final quarter) to come next week. A fitting topic (The SECOND Adam) to present here this weekend where we celebrate the Resurrection of our Messiah!
Posted in Obedience to Christ, Victor's Articles on March 31st, 2009 5 Comments »
What would you do?
What would you do?
Posted in Obedience to Christ, Victor's Articles on March 24th, 2009 5 Comments »
What would you do?
It is your first month at your new job. You’re working at a local fitness gym, dealing with the clients’ contracts. You have continually expressed your gratitude to your friends and family to have this job after an extended time of unemployment – especially in the economic climate we are currently in – to have a job is indeed a blessing. You interact well with the other employees in your office and by now have even learned that your manager is a Christian who prays daily on their commute to work.
Posted in atheism, Brian's Articles, intimacy with God, Obedience to Christ on March 22nd, 2009 88 Comments »
Yesterday, I ran across two different blogs that quoted Kierkegaard in regards to interpreting the Bible. I have to admit I don’t know much about the man, but I found his statements thought provoking. For those of us who love to study God’s Word and read scholarly books about the Bible, his quotes help to remind us what the goal is.
“The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obligated to act accordingly.
Posted in John's Articles, Obedience to Christ on January 12th, 2009 9 Comments »
You could choose to live for Jesus. You will never live like Jesus.
There is something entirely unique about Jesus. It goes beyond the consequential facts about his life. Yes, he was crucified and endured it. Other people have suffered evils like this. Yes he forgave those who killed him. There are not many who have done this. Even Peter, as the article states, refused to be made an equal of Jesus though he matched the martyrdom and forgiveness. One could surmise that the big difference (and again the article says as much) is that Jesus paid for sin. But I think even that falls short.Jesus is more. Jesus is the climax of Israel’s story, the peak, what it was all building towards. Jesus is what Israel was supposed to be.
Posted in Messiah Jesus, Obedience to Christ, Victor's Articles on December 2nd, 2008 9 Comments »
Confessing “Jesus as Lord” is certainly much more than a one time verbal statement. Confessing “Jesus as Lord” is more than a momentary event. Confessing “Jesus as Lord” is also more than a on again off again sort of relationship.
So then what is it? Well, as this video illustrates, to have Jesus as the ruler of our own lives means that he is the one upon whom our decisions are made. He is the one who is sitting on the throne of our hearts (or in this case a stool) and thus given the authority to decree and rule instead of the ruler who was once on the throne – you and I.
Posted in Doctrine, JimS' Articles, Obedience to Christ, The Church on November 21st, 2008 No Comments »
In old testament scriptures God speaks to His people’s leaders calling them to serve Him by way of caring for the people called for His purpose. Time and time again references made to leaders the old testament calls servants. Also in the new testament those leading the church of Christ are referred to as servants, but for those who are not leaders, those who follow the leaders, what shall we call them? The bible calls them servants also although perhaps without quite the ordinal responsibility:
Posted in atheism, Doctrine, JimS' Articles, Obedience to Christ, Science & the Bible, truth on November 7th, 2008 No Comments »
As we walk through our daily life we are always thinking about something, or perhaps many things. Consider this:Prov 4:26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
Prov 4:27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
In an article about “The Fixation of Belief” by Charles Sanders Pierce much consideration is given to “logical thought” to bring man to “one true conclusion”. However, as is brought forth in this article review by Brett Clippingdale, mans own ability to perceive is in question.
Posted in Obedience to Christ, sin, The Cross of Christ, Victor's Articles on October 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Saw this advertisement for the job search site, Monster.com
This ad made me think about our lives for the LORD. Are we living up to our potential? He created us to glorify Him. His son died to offer forgiveness for our sins against Him. He sent His spirit to those who turned to Him to empower them to live the life that we’d been planned to live from the beginning….