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  The church is here to serve humanity and it beckons people to believe the gospel. There are many things we can do for non-Christians and Christian’s alike, but what if some people refuse the service of Christianity and Christians, what are we to do then? The first thing we should do is forgive, we can’t force our kindhearted deeds upon people if they don’t want it! We can pray for our fellow humanity, and look to those who want to be served, there are many opportunities inside the church to serve fellow Christians, and others who enter the church from the outside. I believe we will be judged after we die on how we served our fellow man in the name of Christ. I believe we will be rewarded if we took this seriously. I believe as Christians we might experience loss, if we failed to serve our fellow man with love. I believe love is the right motivation if we are serving people, so it can be painful for sure if others reject our love, in the form of our service to them. We look to Chr...

  The church has modernized itself and in the process has lost something very valuable. It has lost its capacity to be personable. The way we reach lost souls is by seeing them, by getting to know them, and by recognizing them, but people are getting lost in the church. The church has become a busy place and is also becoming a less holy place. To make disciples we have to get to know people, and technology in the church is depersonalizing souls, and depersonalizing God for them. Faith becomes a marketable commodity, whereas in the past, churches and their leaders nourished and valued personal faith. While faith is still valued, it’s becoming something that is marketable, which reminds me of the story of Jesus in the temple turning over tables (Matthew 21:12-17). The problem isn’t that the church doesn’t work or doesn’t want to share the gospel, it could be how we are doing it. The church is currently being run like a business, and each Christian metaphorically speaking has a profit...

  In generations past, we didn’t have a problem with this biblical doctrine that all mankind is born in God’s image. This doctrine is different from Original sin, because of Original sin mankind is born with a sin nature and the guilt inherited from our first parents Adam and Eve. While our natures are flawed by sin, this doesn’t mean that we no longer are made in the image of God. Human beings are special creations different from the animal world because we all have a redeemable soul. Many religions have different beliefs about God and the soul, but for the nature for which I am writing, I will address the Judeo-Christian concept of faith and the soul, because Judaism and Christianity share the same bible and the same God. We need to be redeemed because we are all guilty of sin. God is our redeemer and as a Christian, I believe that Yeshua or Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the Jewish law, and through his death and resurrection, we have forgiveness and full redemption from our ...

  If you’re a Christian you have heard of God’s presence, but what is presence, and how can we give our presence to other people? Presence is about connecting to other people in a full and embodied way. The danger with technology is that we can exclude people from our physical presence even if we are present with them in the room. You have heard the saying “give me your attention” but being present for others is not just a brief moment, but a continuous sustained presence which takes ability. Being physically absent, and withholding your presence from someone, feels almost the same! Life demands that we remain present for it, you have heard the saying that this    person has “checked out” of their life, but when we “check out” on other people, it can be just as much disastrous. The reason why we want to be present for our lives and others is because we have one life and whether we know it or not, it is passing us by. Part of building family, faith, and relationships, is b...

  Kindness is a quality that we should never lose. It’s something we teach our children and it’s something that makes our society better. The Bible is filled with admonitions about kindness, so why do we see a lack of kindness in our society? People have drifted away from God and the Bible, so Christian qualities are quickly being ignored and forgotten by our society. Titus 3:4-7 says;  4 “But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.” Cruelty has a negative affect on us as humans, by nature we know that cruelty is wrong, no one likes to be mistreated. This is why unjust war and violence is wrong. We are made in the i...

  When you have an awareness of the Divine your perspective on time changes. Uncertainty can be the cause of a lack of belief in God. In generations past our culture has had more of an awareness of God and lived with more certainty. The bible is not just a story book for the present moment, it contains the past, the present, and the future in it. The Holy Spirit can give us a perspective that holds the past, the present, and the future, and allows us to see God’s whole picture, despite what we may be feeling or experiencing around us or in our lives.   Trials and persecution can make it difficult to see the whole picture, but I believe that it’s a gift of God to live with this perspective. Unbelief can hinder us from “seeing it all” and insecurities and weaknesses can also disable us from living with this certainty. Also the fear of death, or impending doom, can erase God’s perspective of the future, because our minds get clouded with fear, and we are not able to perceive real...

  Someone asked me recently to what extent do we help the homeless if we choose to invite them into our homes. Let’s assume you have a home, and that you are the owner of that home first! I want to quote Isaiah 58:6-7 “Is not this the fast that I choose:     to loose the bonds of wickedness,     to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free,     and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry     and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him,     and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?”  And Isaiah 58:10-12 “if you pour yourself out for the hungry     and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness     and your gloom be as the noonday. And the Lord will guide you continually     and satisfy your desire in ...