Month: July 2013

A letter out of Africa to POTUS

(POTUS = President Of The United States) “Dear President Obama, I ask you sir, with all due respect to your highly esteemed office, what if our African values and religious beliefs teach us to elevate the highest good of the family above sexual gratification? What if African society has been naturally wired to value the…… Continue reading A letter out of Africa to POTUS

Evolution and Christianity

Atheist Richard Dawkins pointed out a few years ago that Christians who try to mix evolutionary ideas with Scripture, thereby essentially saying that Genesis is not trustworthy, were “deluded.” When asked if there was “a defining moment” when he decided he didn’t believe in God, Dawkins replied as follows: Oh well, by far the most…… Continue reading Evolution and Christianity

Inescapable Opposition

So that you may believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah the Son of God Scripture Readings Psalm 35:1-20 John 15:18-16:4 After killing six million Jews and countless fellow Germans who resisted the Nazi Regime in Germany under Hitler, trails where held to bring to justice the perpetrators. At one stage the trails were brought…… Continue reading Inescapable Opposition

So that you may believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah the Son of God

Bearing fruit in Christ to the Father’s glory Scripture Readings Psalm 80 John 15:1-8 Every farmer understands that his existence hangs on the fruit of the crop he plants.  Farmers are not known for what they plant, but for what they harvest.  A cotton farmer is not someone who plants cotton seed; he is someone…… Continue reading So that you may believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah the Son of God

Obedience to Christ through love brings joy and fruit

So that you may believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah the Son of God Scripture Readings Micah 6:6-8 John 15:9-17 Introduction When God created the world in the beginning, He created everything, and yet, He also created mankind to be under-creators:  God appointed them to be fruitful and fill the earth and subdue it. …… Continue reading Obedience to Christ through love brings joy and fruit

The Death of Reverence, The Death of Holiness

“I sat on the pew outside the sanctuary and began to weep. I was crushed at what I was hearing and what I was experiencing. “Was I such an anomaly that finding a place to worship God with reverence and holiness was asking too much?” I literally felt like there would be no place for me to…… Continue reading The Death of Reverence, The Death of Holiness

The Prince of Heaven versus the prince of this world

So that you may believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah the Son of God Scripture Readings Psalm 2 John 14:28-15:4 The prophets and Jesus Christ Isaiah For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor,…… Continue reading The Prince of Heaven versus the prince of this world