Relationships take time to grow. Trust in another, belief in their genuine love for you, take time to nurture and build. This is true even in our relationship with God and His Son, Jesus. When we come to Him in our brokenness and begin a relationship with Him, it is ...
Read More »Leave The Bucket Behind
“If being baptized by water saves you, as some religions claim, then why are we not dumping buckets of “holy water” on people everywhere?” Being raised in a religious household with this exact idea, and having been baptized as a baby, the question caught me off guard and started to ...
Read More »Once Saved, Always Saved?
I bet you have heard that phrase more than once! In the conversations that I have listened to, it seems someone is trying to cut themselves some slack for walking that fine line between right and wrong. “Well,” they say, “I have believed in Jesus for a really long time ...
Read More »Reflections of Glory
Everyone needs hope. Without hope, despair and darkness settle in wreaking destruction in lives. Without hope, there is no vision, no goal, no energy…and eventually, no life. For believers in Christ, the treasure of hope rests in us for Jesus is the ‘Hope of Glory’! We are to be the ...
Read More »Persecution of Believers
Persecution of believers is happening all over the world, particularly in Muslim countries. Christians are being tortured and even killed for their faith. The political answer to such oppression is usually war. Might makes right, and because the persecutors are in the wrong, we are justified in defeating them. ...
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