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What I am Learning from This World Crisis. I'm the type of person who needs the answers when trouble comes. Most of us don't know how to respond when stuff like tragedy happens. The most painful experience comes when we blame God for things that appear to have no answer. When things like disease and illness comes, and other hard stuff, we can get stuck with feeling that there is no answer. The twenty first century has been a century like no other. The amount of suffering worldwide and among us close to home, can leave people with little to hope for. The quest for justice and other rights, as I see it, is just our way of saying we have had enough pain and suffering. The question we ask now is when will it end? I have looked for a sense of hope from the bible, but some of our problems need interior work. It's not that the bible is insufficient, but sometimes we need to look at the why in a different way. When you ask a child who hurt themselves, the reason why they are su...

Without Holiness. The bible calls men and women to salvation, but what we do with that salvation determines our eternity. The bible says 14 "Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord." (Hebrews 12:14 | NIV) To see the Lord in eternity, we must be willing to see Him now, but the problem is that we don't understand what holiness is. We are too frightened to be the people that God created us to be because we value the comforts of this life now, so we are unwilling to take our Christian lives to the perfection that is needed to be ready to meet God. We don't believe that we can fully experience God on earth, so we delay seeking Him, or find ways to justify our sin. Society can restrict Christians from having the desire and the faith that is needed to be holy, and others are content with a positional holiness that comes from justification by faith. The doctrine of being right with God, which is justificat...

Why Moral Integrity Matters. Our society used to be based on moral integrity and I want to talk about why this still matters. It should be obvious that if we are going to live in a fair and just society, we need to be decent people. God's people should always demonstrate this in community, but it should spill over into every aspect of society. We cannot live like we don't care about our fellow man, to do otherwise would be brutality. We all have the nature of God in our souls, which means we can express divine qualities as human beings. To take on our humanity to the fullest, we need to live our lives expressing divine qualities not beastial ones. There is a place in hell for humans who lived like they were animals and there is also a place in the next world for those who didn't. Why this matters is because we have the choice to live as angels in the next life, or devils. Those who have failed to cultivate the positive aspects of their human natures will not have a seco...

What is God's Common Grace? What is common to all of us is that we all experience God's blessings in our lives. Whatever you think the source of the good things you experience in life are, there is a doctrine that says these things come from God. Common grace is for everyone but is especially for unbelievers more than for Christians. We Christians also have saving grace, and this is the grace that leads us to Heaven when we die. God uses common grace to create society and community, He uses it to create things like hospitals, medicine and science, and He uses it to create things like schools and government and commerce. Common grace can be abused, and when it is God can send judgement, but this is also His common grace. Even religion is God's common grace, and shouldn't be confused with saving grace, but religion can lead to that. The food we eat, the house we live in, the friends we have, the technology we use, is all God's common grace. When we choose to be mo...