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  What is the greatest gift you can give yourself this new year or better yet what is the greatest gift you can receive? I believe it’s the gift of repentance. What causes regret in your life? Is it broken relationships, a failed marriage, anger, unforgiveness? God provides a remedy for all of these things which are caused by sin, and that is repentance. We all want to feel the joy in life, we all want to feel happiness, but the more we sin and live a sinful lifestyle, we feel we have to cover up our sins in order to feel a sense of peace. But true peace comes from not living any way we want to live, but by living a holy life, in fellowship with the Father.   I encourage you to start this new year by being honest with yourself, if you have relationships that are broken, if you have sinned gravely, repent, if you don’t you will take all these sins with you not just into the new year with you, but you will take them with you when you die. This is what the bible refers to when it...

 Matthew 25:1-13 I have discovered a remarkable interpretation of this parable that I would like to share with you. The story in the Bible goes like this:    “At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.   2  Five of them were foolish and five were wise.   3  The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them.   4  The wise ones, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps.   5  The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep. 6  “At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’ 7  “Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps.   8  The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’ 9  “‘No,’ they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy som...

  I have been thinking about goals, and what motivates me to accomplish things in my life. I can say that there are times when I can feel like I have no purpose, no direction and no motivation. 💡The reason why I might feel that I have no goals is because sometimes with depression nothing interests me.  Finding direction can lead me to set specific goals for my life, and the desire to achieve those goals can create motivation to accomplish them.  It doesn’t matter how old you are, you can always find something that gives your life meaning and purpose.  When you find yourself motivated to set out and do something, the  meaning  that comes from accomplishing those goals will create motivation to create  new goals  and carry you forwards to accomplish  new things. Sometimes our fear prevents us from setting out to accomplish our goals because we can fear failure, and what other people think of us,  or we may no longer care about reachi...

  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...

  Hebrews 2:14-18 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants. For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted. Death is real, and if you are not a Christian, the Bible says that the devil holds you in slavery to the fear of death. It also says that Satan holds the power of death. While it is true that Jesus Christ conquered death, he also delivered us from the power of death that Satan holds. What is implied here is that he also delivered us from the ...

  “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...

  Since the beginning of time, man has learned about the existence of God. It began in the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve walked and talked with God, however when they sinned, they died spiritually and their closeness with God was severed. In Genesis 4:26 it reads “Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on the name of the LORD.” Seth was the third son of Adam and Eve, so it’s fair to say that not too long after mankind fell, we also called upon the Lord.   From that time until now, mankind was closer to God then, but it’s a modern shift that the world is in the state it is in now, mainly unbelief, because even 30 years ago from now, mankind was closer to God. It is also true that in ancient Israel’s history, there have been generations that fell away and forgot God, but in the time of the prophets Israel was never left without a word from the Lord. Many generations have come and gone, but there have been remarkable generations all thr...

  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 ...

  Man is not an intrinsically moral being. When we objectively reject the moral laws of God we are left with no moral standard in which to live and judge our lives and to judge injustice. We do what we think is right in our own lives (Judges 21:25), which results in chaos, injustice, cruelty and rampant sin. When we fail to judge ourselves by looking into the perfect mirror of God’s justice, we have nothing to base right and wrong on, which eventually leads to tragedy and invites God’s judgment into our lives, unless we repent. We weren’t put here on earth on our own despite what evolutionists say. We have a Creator who has revealed to us His moral law, and what we need to do to be blessed by our Creator and to do what is right. As a Christian, the roots of my faith is Judaism, for centuries God revealed His law to His people, the Jews. Whenever His people strayed from God’s ways, God brought judgment to His people to bring them back to Himself. As a Christian, my bible teaches me ...

  The story of Jesus Christ is not a made up story, it’s actually something that took place in history. The bible is more than a historical book, it’s the word of God. In the book of Romans the bible says that God has given us evidences of his existence so that we are without excuse, (Romans 1:19-20). But why do so many discount the message of the bible and live like God doesn’t exist? For the large part, people are willfully ignorant. They may have heard the message of the gospel at one point, but then chose not to believe. What they don’t understand is that God holds them responsible for their unbelief, and one day when they die, they will be judged for it. (Hebrews 9:27). The same applies for those who believed at one point, but no longer believe. Our faith must carry us throughout our lives, and we must actually die with faith, in order to be pleasing to God (Hebrews 11:13). One of the ways people stop believing is that they suppress the truth in unrighteousness (Romans 1:18). ...

  Can you see the picture of a beat up and rusted old motor vehicle or an extremely neglected house? You may ask yourself how something so beautiful became so neglected and uncared for? Did it just get old? Or did the owners just stop caring for their property? If we are not careful our knowledge of the Lord if neglected and not cared for, can become unrecognizable to those we are trying to portray Him too. Accurate knowledge of the Lord is necessary to communicate to others who God is, otherwise the picture we are telling may be an inaccurate picture, and we become liable for not telling the truth, when we know better.   Artificial Intelligence now can create images and video that look so real, and convince you that you are seeing something real, when in fact you are seeing something created by a computer and something not real. The impression you get comes from a false or distorted reality. Our understanding and knowledge of God can be the same. It’s true, that some people a...

  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...