I have never told my children that if they play around my car or the stove I am going to kill them. I have lovingly warned them that the car or stove could harm them. It could even kill them! They needed to grow to a certain level of maturity or “of full age” before I could let them experience the full benefit of these wonderful tools without my loving supervision. I believe that is similar to the tree of…
Addiction is real. Whether it’s food, sex, drugs, alcohol, etc. It is miserable and it is real. The good news is that if you are struggling with addiction, you can stop fighting addiction today, right now. It’s Not All In Your Head When I began studying Dr. Jason Fung’s books about Diabetes and Obesity and other dietary diseases, I began finding out that our bodies react to our actions. When Dr. Fung explained that we are not fighting willpower but…
Who is Jesus talking to? In “Luke 10:18, Jesus was talking to the “the seventy” of His disciples that had “returned again with joy.” The disciples had said, “Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through your name,” Jesus is telling them, “That’s no big deal, Satan fell from heaven like lightning.” Satan is a defeated foe. Jesus tells these same disciples in the very next verse, “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions,…
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John 1:29 He is Brought as a Lamb to the Slaughter In Isaiah 53:7, Jesus is described as a lamb being brought to the slaughter. Isaiah prophesied about Jesus hundreds of years before Jesus was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, and took away the sin of the world through His death, burial, and resurrection. Jesus is the Perfect Lamb of God And remember, when someone brought a lamb in the Old…
The very first thing God said to Adam and Eve after He created them in His own image and blessed them was “Be fruitful and multiply.” That’s exactly right. God blessed them and told them to be prosperous! Hallelujah! Money is Not Evil Money and material possessions are actually amoral. Along with television and other technologies and materials, money can be used for good or evil. Money is a tool. The Bible says that the love of money is the…
Jesus is the answer for everything. I have wasted so much time trying to please other people or worrying about what others think of me. Stop wasting time letting those concerns dictate your actions. Be intentional to spend time with Jesus today and every day! Who is Influencing You? The few people you spend most of your time with are the ones who have the most influence on your life. I have chosen to find people who are walking in…
Are you feeling weighed down by all of the chaos, sickness, death, and destruction we are seeing in the world? Do you want to know more about God, the Bible, Church, but just don’t know where to start? Well, God has sent an open invitation to you to come and learn of him and to find rest. That open invitation is through Christ Jesus. Jesus is my Lord, and I love him because he first loved me. Come and Rest…
Is unbelief not believing in God? No. In the Old Testament, the Israelites couldn’t enter God’s rest because of their unbelief. The third chapter of Hebrews explains the Israelites’ unbelief: And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. Hebrews 3:18-19 Unbelief? Did they believe in God? Yes. They had been miraculously led by God during the exodus…
The Bible starts out by telling us about the beginning of time as we know it. “In the beginning, God created (Genesis 1:1).” Paradise. God created (Genesis 1:1) the heaven and earth and everything beautiful and pleasurable for a life of bliss (Genesis 2:8) and dominion (Genesis 1:28) (law: absolute ownership). Everything He has just spent days creating, God calls, “good (Genesis 1:25)” until He creates man and woman (Genesis 1:27) in His own image. Then everything He has made…