Waiting for the Good.

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 ultimate penalty for our sins after we trust Christ.

The light of the Gospel gives light and hope to all of humanity. Our decisions in life sometimes causes us grief, and this for some can be a grief that can only be lifted by the full forgiveness of our sins. Contrary to what we feel about ourselves sometimes, God’s love is unconditional and fully free. We don’t deserve to be forgiven, but because God is a redeemer He delights in wiping our sins clean when we ask him.

You can really live with a sense of hope in this world, not because we are righteous, but because God sent his Son Jesus to bring us salvation. We can live with hope because one day God will set us free from our burdens, and we can wait with hope now because Jesus Christ has forgiven us and has promised us through the Bible that one day we will be completely free. This is Mike.

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Catholic Identity.

I was born into the Catholic Church and was baptized as an infant, I had my first communion and reconciliation as a child, and was confirmed as a teenager. Although I was never devout, I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Saviour when I was 21 through an evangelical Christian radio ministry, which in turn gave new life to my Catholic faith. Although I remained a Catholic, I identified as a born again Christian. It wasn’t until much later in my life that I learned the difference between the two denominations and what they taught about being born again. Regardless, there was a significant change in my life back then, which continues to this day. Being Catholic is much like an identity to me and I remember growing up under the papacy of St. Pope John Paul II. The culture I grew up in was largely affected by his papacy, and the way the culture viewed the church was significantly different from the way the current culture views it. Growing up, the pope didn’t try to be rele...

Age of Brokenness.

We are living in an age of brokenness, no matter what age you are, you probably have been touched with relationships falling apart, which causes more and more people to live in isolation. In this generation there is less of an incentive to heal and reconcile relationships, but that doesn’t excuse the amount of people who are broken. Why people don’t seem to be motivated to heal relationships is because our beliefs about faith and God have changed, really giving us less of an incentive to do what our religion says. If I act from my personal beliefs, but the person that I am responding to has abandoned religious beliefs, than the response to my wanting things to be better can be misinterpreted and rejected then by someone else. Generally when a society has expectations about broken relationships, loneliness and isolation, and the beliefs are generally accepted, society becomes a more compassionate society, because all value the same things. When religious values are undermined and ...

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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