Your Plan or God’s Plan?

“‘For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,’ declares the Lord. ‘For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.’” (Isaiah 55:8-9) SCREENSHOT OF CHRISTIANITY The picture on the left is a screenshot of a post […]

King or No King?

“INDEPENDENT THINKING” Upon my completion of reading the Old Testament book of Judges, I couldn’t help but notice this final and ominous verse in the book: “In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” (Judges 21:25) It isn’t the first time in Judges that this […]

Does a Christian Sin?

“We know that no one who is born of God sins; but He who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.” (1 John 5:18) CHRISTIANS DON’T SIN THE SAME There’s a difference between a Christian and a non Christian. (Psalm 30:11; 2 Corinthians 5:17) You can’t tell just […]

A Really Dumb Christian

“Then the king gave orders, and Daniel was brought in and cast into the lion’s den.” (Daniel 6:16a) MODERN DAY STORY OF DANIEL It all happened in the capital of Taiwan a decade ago. I guess you could call it a modern day story of Daniel (or not?). Local5.com reported on a man intent on […]

10 Mistakes People Make with Politics and Religion (plus 1 bonus)

Lightning fast read meant to make you think… 10 Mistakes People Make with Politics and Religion (plus 1 bonus): 1. Vote based on a person’s charisma or words or looks rather than their record. 2. Put any single politician (or group of politicians) in the place of God. (Exodus 20:3) 3. Completely remove themselves from […]

Events in the Life of Jesus According to the Gospels

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Six More Women – Five More Lessons

Pastor Mike here with six more women and five more lessons. Woman #1 is Rahab the prostitute. However, Rahab the harlot and her father’s household and all she had, Joshua spared; and she has lived in the midst of Israel to this day, for she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. […]

Six Women – Five Lessons

Pastor Mike here with six women and five lessons. Woman #1 is Mrs. Job. Then [Job’s wife] said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!” (Job 2:9) And the lesson is: Sometimes you lose it when you lose it all. Woman #2 is Hagar, Abraham’s wife, Sarah’s maid. And […]

A Friend Named Sorrow and A Friend Named Suffering

“[T]hat I may know Him (Christ) … and the fellowship of His sufferings.” (Philippians 3:10ac) HINDS’ FEET ON HIGH PLACES In Hannah Hurnard’s classic Christian allegory, “Hinds’ Feet on High Places,” character Much Afraid finds herself on the shores of the great sea, Loneliness, where she is attacked by her relatives, Pride, Resentment, Bitterness and […]

10 Mistakes People Make with Christianity (plus 1 bonus)

Lightning fast read meant to make you think… 10 Mistakes People Make with Christianity (plus 1 bonus): 1. Think it’s a list of do’s and don’ts / duties versus a relationship with God whereby the Holy Spirit helps believers to keep Christ’s commandments. (Matthew 28:19-20) 2. Follow other people’s ideas of Christianity (e.g. Catholic Popes, […]