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  Contemporary society has a way of doing things backwards. Things that we prioritized are no longer a priority. We once valued traditional marriage and conservative values, but in the name of freedom we have liberated ourselves. But in the attempt to gain our freedom what have we really lost? Have we lost intimacy in marriage? Have we lost trust in relationships? Is our country more secure or less secure from our enemies? In the attempt for a more fair and just society have we pushed God out, and invited in personal person worship?  We all don’t have to think the same way to live together. Diversity includes freedom of thought, and my thought is are we trying to create a utopia without God? Just what is a utopia? I personally don’t think we can be personally liberated until we have made ourselves ready to die. Death for a believer brings true liberation. Yes we have been entrusted with this world, but by whom have we been entrusted with it? The Creator. Unless we acknowledge ...

  God’s love is all encompassing that it can change our hearts from bitterness to love. When we fully embrace the love that God has for all of humanity it can free us from demanding that we get our way all the time, and it puts others first. People want to be loved, and there is nothing greater to know that God loves you and He accepts you as you are. How we experience this love is through faith in Jesus Christ. He was put to death by angry sinners because they had never seen unconditional love the way Jesus lived his life. The society that Jesus lived in was one of rules and religious law and Jesus broke almost every tradition that the religious Jews were accustomed to.   He ate with sinners, broke ceremonial laws in regards to washing hands before they ate, taught it was more important to honour your mother and father than keeping rules about traditional giving and other traditions from the law. He set a lady free from the punishment of death after she was caught in the act ...

  Society is slowly drifting away from living in the present moment, which is a shame because God can be only found in the present moment. When we begin to lose the ability to cultivate things like love, kindness and compassion, we lose other skills that reinforce conditions of the heart that create inner joy and happiness and also the ability to experience God. This is far from a pantheistic world view, but it is a worldview that supports faith and living in the Lord’s presence. When we forget how to live simply, our thoughts become constructed around our material things, and the ability to hold God in our thoughts becomes extremely difficult to achieve.   Repentance begins when we are able to see how we are living and change our thinking which changes our behaviour and the course of our lives. God is a spirit and He is love, therefore we must prepare our spirits to experience God’s love. The more humanity changes it’s focus outwards to material things, and what pleases our b...

  Is a family something you are born into, or is it created over time? What and who makes up a family? Is a family just living arrangements, or is it something deeper, or may I say even spiritual? Like life, can your family change over time, or is it an arrangement that you are locked into wether you like it or not? Is our family chosen for us, or do we still have the right to say that I belong to this family or that? Does the human family exist like it existed 20 years ago, or has the definition of family changed over time, that almost everybody can be family?  I believe we have seen a significant change in the way humanity does and defines family. I don’t think we can accurately say that family plays the same role in our world as the traditional definition of the family is being overrun by our choices to make our world families what ever they are! There are new normals about marriage and who we can legally love, therefore this automatically changes how we viewed family in ou...

  (Can be done sitting in a chair while someone reads this to you.) St. Augustine said “we are restless until we find rest in you.” Picture your soul on a boat in the ocean, the water is calm and your soul is fast asleep and resting in the boat. Just then the boat hits some small rocks, you wake up and you are on what seems to be a deserted island. You pick up your bible and walk off the boat. The island is a Mediterranean island. You open up your bible and land on the passage Psalm 46:10 that says “Be still and know that I am God.” There is an inviting cool breeze in the air and you smell the smell of fish cooking in a fire in the distance. You look up, and it is the Lord preparing you lunch. You walk over to the fire and the Lord asks you to take a seat on the ground next to the fire. Now you are with the Lord on mount Calvary. You are seated in a place where no one can see you, all you can see is Jesus on the cross. Despite His pain there is a warm smile on the Lord’s face and H...

  God’s spirit gives us all the time to wait. But while we are waiting, we need to wait for the good. Sin is a darkness and it clouds our minds and our reasoning. Living in the light of God is not a vain escape from reality, but a reconnecting with the source of all goodness which is God. While we wait for God, we can have hope, because the hope of the Christian is a sure hope, a hope for the future. We have this hope because of what Jesus did for us on the cross.  When we accept Jesus as our Lord and Saviour, we begin to live our lives with real hope for the very first time. Christians don’t need to fear the coming wrath of God, but we have the hope of the forgiveness of sins. Everyone wants a clear conscience and when we believe on the Lord, all our sins are forgiven. The meaning of life is found only in Christ.  Jesus redeemed us and has shown us mercy. Mercy is a beautiful word because we don’t deserve it, but in Christ we have received mercy. We don’t have to pay the...