The Super Blogosphere of a parallel word.

  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...

  How we conduct ourselves and the way we spend our money can have a direct impact on our happiness and the potential on how we spend our money. There are principles taught in the Bible and by Jesus, that can give us council and direction on our financial wealth or lack of it. One thing we must consider is how we treat other people. This has a direct impact on our money. In Luke 6:31 Jesus says,  “ Do to others as you would have them do to you.” How we treat other people directly affects the way we manage money. If we are generous with our time, talents and abilities, God sees that, and knows that we are acting in a way that He can bless. In proverbs 11:25 the bible says; “Generous persons will prosper; those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.”  Although practicing biblical principles in regards to wealth doesn’t guarantee that you will become rich, but it does guarantee that God will bless you! The bible teaches that when we are generous with our wealth whe...

  God made a covenant with Abraham, Genesis  17:1-8 “ When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty;[ a ] walk before me, and be blameless,  2  that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly.”  3  Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to him,  4  “Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.  5  No longer shall your name be called Abram,[ b ] but your name shall be Abraham,[ c ] for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.  6  I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you.  7  And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.  8  And I will give to you and to your offspring a...

  God is a holy God, and for Him to overlook sin would be going against His nature and His Will, which He cannot do because He is God. Yes, there is forgiveness of sins through Jesus Christ, but if you are no longer repenting of your sins, you probably have some sins which are not forgiven. Yes, when we repent to receive Jesus as Lord and Saviour, all of our sins are forgiven in the abstract, but there is still the practical aspect of walking with God in your sanctification process with out which you will not see God, (Hebrews 12:14.)   What does it mean to be sanctified after you receive salvation? Sanctification is a process in which you work with the Holy Spirit to resist sin and to live a holy life. Some churches teach that your sanctification is your salvation, but that is wrong. Yes part of going to Heaven is being holy, but unless you have the initial faith, your efforts to live for God will go unrewarded. Because the Holy Spirit lives in a saved person, the Holy Spirit...

  Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it.  2  For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed.[ a ]  3  Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, “So I declared on oath in my anger,     ‘They shall never enter my rest.’” (Hebrews 4:1-3) The Sabbath rest is a day, but it is also a condition of our faith and our standing before God. Until we rest in God, we will ever be restless, as St. Augustine said, ( Our  heart is  restless until  it rests in  you . ) Faith that refuses to believe cannot be rewarded by God, and unless we truly believe, we won’t find the rest that God is trying to bring us to. We won’t fully understand what faith is unless we abandon ourselves to the truth tha...