The Congruency of Time.

Time is congruent not in form but in fashion. Events change the substance of time, but they don't change the nature of time. Time will come to an end at the Second Coming of Jesus in time, but time will continue in it's same nature, nothing can change the nature of time. Why is this important you ask, because everything in time is constantly changing, but the one thing that doesn't change is time itself. If time doesn't change, then it remains linear, and although events change our place in time, the nature of our true Selves remains unchanged. We can change our appearance, or our physical features, but the essence of our souls remains the same, even when time ends.

There are things in our essence as souls that can change like our preferences and desires, and because our circumstances can change, naturally we adapt to them. However this cannot change our essence, God created our souls, and when we find God our souls begin a journey in uniting ourselves to God. This is the highest thing a person can experience, for in finding God and being united to Him, we have found the meaning of life. A person who doesn't want to be a saint, settles for tastes for God, but God calls us to make it our life's goal to seek Him and to be eventually found and united to Him in Heaven.

To a certain degree, we are already united to Jesus Christ through the holy spirit that lives in us, but the bible promises us that we will experience the fullness of God in Heaven, we should never settle for anything less. This is what the bible means when it says we are to be holy. We have a taste of it on earth, but in our sanctification here, we should be desiring more and more of holiness. This doesn't come into conflict with the doctrine of Justification, because we have to practise our standing with God if we are going to be comfortable seeing him in Heaven.

When we believe in this way, we are yielding to the holy spirit's work in our life, and participate or work out our own salvation. The reason isn't just so that we miss purgatory, this life is a form of purgatory when we suffer. However, sanctification is voluntary.

God will not force it upon us, so if we fail at that, we fail in living out our lives as holy people. Yes, Christians are sanctified, but we are called to be good after we are saved. To fail at this is to miss a truly happy and holy life, and ultimately to lose our rewards in Heaven. Imagine for all eternity being 100% happy, 100% all the time! God promises us the greatest joys, not in this life but in the eternal Heaven, but you won't be happy there if you are not trying to be holy now. This is Mike.

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On Christian Marriage. (Short)

On Christian Marriage. (Short) The modern co-habitation crisis has produced a lot of single moms and dads, and has fractured "family units" allowing other family members and relatives to take a bigger role in these "Separated families." There isn't a "one cause" why families have separated or divorced, it is a complicated issue, sometimes resulting in very hard emotions for Society to process. Things like the "millennial sexual revolution" have contributed to the widespread "non-committal" attitude, which in turn has given the traditional marriage the "black eye" it currently has and has turned many Christian men away from seeking a life partner. The more society devalues "traditional marriage" the more co-habitation you will see in all the other generations as well as the Millennials. This is Mike.

Why Christians must show Mutual Concern for One another.

Look and see, there is no one at my right hand; no one is concerned for me. I have no refuge; no one cares for my life. Psalm 142:4. Christians in the church should have mutual concern for one another, this is what it means to be part of the body of Christ, 1 Corinthians 12:25. It’s takes good pastoral leadership to foster this sense of concern, and where it is missing, individuals who are suffering in the church are overlooked and not supported. Every believer needs support and encouragement, but when this is missing, the church divides and loses it power and testimony. Christians live like the world, and become vulnerable to Satan’s attacks when nobody is supporting them outside the church. I used to belong to an evangelical church which had great leadership, and something called small groups. This church felt like a family and I had people who shared my Christian walk with me when I was not in the church building. I have been attending a different denomination that doesn’t hav...

The Biblical Meaning of “Life in the Spirit.”

“Life in the Spirit” is an example that the Apostle Paul gives in the book of Romans starting in chapter 5 and going through to chapter 8. He begins by telling us we are justified by faith (5:1), and have gained access by faith into the grace of God (5:2). We have been delivered from God’s wrath (5:9) and we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son (5:10). He goes on to explain that through Adam all die (5:12), and that the free Gift of God brings justification and righteousness to the believing sinner (5:15-17). Through our conversion we are baptized into Christ and into his death, which frees us from the law and makes us dead to sin (6:2-4). He explains that just as Christ was raised from the dead, we are given new life in Christ (6:4). Our old unregenerate self was crucified with Christ so that our body of sin might be done away with (6:5-6). Because we have died to sin, we now submit ourselves to God being that we are now under grace, not the law (6:8-1...

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