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Have you been Born Again.

It's like toast and jam, bread and butter, night and night lights, have you been born again? Salvation without it means you are not saved, life without it means no God. The bible without it has no words, hey let me tell you you ain't going to heaven without being born again. Jesus said it I believe it is the power of God unto salvation, there ain't no preaching without it, there ain't no message without it and if you've never been born again you ain't going to heaven. It's that simple James, but it ain't that simple, there must be repentance, there must be faith, there must be belief and confession, there must be reception, but one thing is true brother, one thing is true sister, you ain't going to that promised land unless you've been born again brother. Born again.

The illegality of Thought.

Yes it is not a crime to express your thoughts. Contrary to what some may believe we are still living in a free society, and with that said I would like to comment on the social collective consciousness. It is not good. People think they are intrinsically good and will kill you for saying that you are wrong. We have progressed or regressed beyond what most people call left and right, now we have "I am going to kill all ambition for a free society and Jew hatred is commonly referred to as normal now. We are living in times that are very similar to the second world war where common decency and respect of thought is constantly under attack. This is not my imagination. Let me ask you a question...where are you progressing? What is the common politically correct thought that you are trying to defend as you read this? Do you wish you were living in a world where there are no Christians or Jews, are you a defender of other religious rights other than Christianity and Judaism? Do you hate...

The immortality of the soul.

Everyone wants to get out of this world alive, but the real question is would you like to live forever? Death is a topic and reality that most of us don't really like talking about, and we have gone on about finding God in many different ways. There are the unlimited ways that we try to, alleviate the pain in our lives and we dream of a heaven where there will be no more pain, where we will be free to be who we were really meant to be. I could talk about many concepts of heaven and which one I think might be right, but my hope level is a little low right now meaning that my concept of the afterlife, may parallel that of Judaism or neo-conservative Christianity, with authors like N.T. Wright highly influencing and changing my thoughts about Salvation or Justification, big words for big Christians. What I would like to talk about is this thing called death and the immortality of the soul. You might or might not heard it said that God (if you believe in him) is the only immortal bei...

Alien Nation, O say can you see?

Let me draw you a picture, the year is 2011 the month is December. There are people walking down the street, one person in particular. He is lost, he is looking for his home. The city is busy as busy can be, this person doesn't know how he got to where he is, he sees a church, he walks inside. There are strange people sitting in the pews, they are all wearing masks, dark masks and they are dressed in black. The man asks, "is this the church of the living God?" He is told to be quiet, he is interrupting the sermon. He asks again.."is this the church of the living God?" No one responds, someone comes out of the sanctuary, dressed in all white and approaches the man, "come with me.." he says, so the man follows him to the front row of the church. "Sit here." says the man in white, then goes onto the platform and addresses the crowd "We may resume the sermon!" all is quiet once again. For the next hour nobody speaks, there is no sermon ...

A Spy on the Wall.

Many of you know that I'm not one to keep silent especially when I see injustice, but I think I've forgotten what that word means so I'm going to do a little writing to bring back to my memory what exactly it is that we consider right and what exactly is wrong. When I think of freedom of speech the first picture I get in my head is someone standing in London on a soap box and speaking 'freely', but we live in  society that even on a blog like this one there are restrictions to what you say and what you can't say so I will only speak freely, as relatively free as I can. I personally believe that the world is not progressing but regressing and people in church, people at work, people in hospitals, people at home, those who haven't been affected by the 21st century post modernity bug will be able to recognize that this is a call the speak your mind, as freely as you can. I just finished reading the biography of John Lennon, it was written by an English author...

Has the time change affected your personality?

I am totally uninspired for this one, but I'll make up the words as I go. Today was a great day at my church, a young man who is our youth pastor got up for the first time at our church and preached the word (the bible) with authority. I don't know too much about Jason other than this kid is incredible. He looks like he should be in an Arby's commercial eating a giant roast beef sandwich, I have no idea what made this kid decide to give his life over to preaching. I've heard of stories before about some pretty important leaders in evangelicalism like John MacArthur, he gave up an opportunity to play in the NFL to become one of the greatest modern preachers of the bible. I think when some people become born again, God asks them to give up certain things for His Glory, not because those things are bad in and of themselves, but I think it is a test than God requires of allot of born again Christians, why he doesn't make some people give away certain things and other ...