Christianity
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
C. S. Lewis
The above statement by C.S. Lewis makes things abundantly clear. If Christianity is false there is nothing to fear. If correct it’s there is a lot to think about and the implication have eternal consequences.
Over the years I’ve spoken about Jesus with many men and women from every strata of society from genius’s, to university professors, to the average person on the street, to people living on the street.
The one thing I’ve found is most are willing to listen intently to what I have to say. Some will even engage me in debate which is always nice.
Never-the-less no matter what proof I give inside or outside the bible many will not believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. The Saviour of the world
Ultimately it all comes down to a handful of verses in the Bible
“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”
Hebrews 11:1
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him”
Hebrews 11:6
“Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.”
John 3:16-18
If what is said in the above Bible quotes is untrue then no one has anything to fear. If it is then there is a great deal to think about.
Please think about it.
Tuesday, 12 May 2015
Monday, 11 May 2015
Love
Love
“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.”
Francis of Assisi
Here is a simple truth that all people everywhere can understand. Love.
The apostle Paul wrote,
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails....
Now abides faith hope and love but the greatest of these is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-8a,13.
Love is a universal truth. Love is giving of ones self unconditionally with no expectation of return.
A young Anne Frank a young Jewish girl hiding from the Nazi’s in the Netherlands during world war two wrote these words,
“Give of yourself, give as much as you can? And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness! If everyone were to do this and not be as mean with a kindly word, then there would be much more justice and love in the world. Give and you shall receive, much more than you would have ever thought possible. Give, give again and again, don’t lose courage, keep it up and go on giving! No one has ever become poor from giving!” Anne Frank
Anne sadly would die in a Nazi concentration camp.
Today we can look around the world and see various terrorist organizations murdering and killing innocent men women and children. They are doing it they say in the name of God.
No god would ever do such things. The men that are doing such atrocities today around the world are no different than the Nazis and perhaps worse.
While terrorist take the lack of love beyond the point of hatred there also seems to be a lack of love entering western society.
Men and women here don’t use violence, still their lack of love is shown when they picket in front of abortion clinics yelling to the people entering they are going to hell.
When people demand the ten commandments or other religious works be taken from view in government institutions. That is showing a lack of understanding and love.
When they protest against restricting the rights of any group. That is a lack of love.
In order to have a truly free society we need to love. Love by its definition shows man how to live with his fellow man.
Please think about it.
“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.”
Francis of Assisi
Here is a simple truth that all people everywhere can understand. Love.
The apostle Paul wrote,
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails....
Now abides faith hope and love but the greatest of these is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-8a,13.
Love is a universal truth. Love is giving of ones self unconditionally with no expectation of return.
A young Anne Frank a young Jewish girl hiding from the Nazi’s in the Netherlands during world war two wrote these words,
“Give of yourself, give as much as you can? And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness! If everyone were to do this and not be as mean with a kindly word, then there would be much more justice and love in the world. Give and you shall receive, much more than you would have ever thought possible. Give, give again and again, don’t lose courage, keep it up and go on giving! No one has ever become poor from giving!” Anne Frank
Anne sadly would die in a Nazi concentration camp.
Today we can look around the world and see various terrorist organizations murdering and killing innocent men women and children. They are doing it they say in the name of God.
No god would ever do such things. The men that are doing such atrocities today around the world are no different than the Nazis and perhaps worse.
While terrorist take the lack of love beyond the point of hatred there also seems to be a lack of love entering western society.
Men and women here don’t use violence, still their lack of love is shown when they picket in front of abortion clinics yelling to the people entering they are going to hell.
When people demand the ten commandments or other religious works be taken from view in government institutions. That is showing a lack of understanding and love.
When they protest against restricting the rights of any group. That is a lack of love.
In order to have a truly free society we need to love. Love by its definition shows man how to live with his fellow man.
“Love is patient,
love is kind.
It does not envy,
it does not boast,
it is not proud.
It is not rude,
it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects,
always trusts,
always hopes,
always perseveres.
Love never fails....
Now abides faith hope and love but the greatest of these is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-8a,13.Please think about it.
Sunday, 10 May 2015
Because of a Mother
Because of a Mother
“Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.
But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the river bank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to get it.
She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.
Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”
“Yes, go,” she answered. And the girl went and got the baby’s mother.
Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him.
When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.”
Exodus 2:1-10.
Today is Mother’s day in Canada. A time when we celebrate mother’s. When we thank them for all they’ve done for us.
When we look through history there is many mothers of note. However to my mind there are three mothers in history that led to the changing of history in a greater way than any other three women.
The above scripture I quoted is from Exodus and the saving of Moses from the river. The story in short goes this way. Pharaoh fearing that the Jews would rebel should an enemy come against his people ordered all the Jewish male children born to them to be killed.
One brave Hebrew mother ignored pharaoh and placed her child in a basket in the reeds where Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe.
Pharaoh’s daughter recognized that it was a Hebrew baby but decided to keep the child as her own. The sister of that child had been watching the events and asked if she should get a Hebrew woman to look after the child. Pharaoh’s daughter said yes.
The child’s mother was brought and was instructed to bring the child up until he was older where upon she made him her son.
The child, Moses, I’m sure would have the benefit of two things.
I’m sure his natural mother taught him about his heritage as a Jew. Giving him a sense of where his heritage lie.
While his adoptive mother gave him the benefit of all the learning of Egypt the most powerful and cultured nation on the earth at that time.
Thus when the time came for Moses to perform God’s work he was well educated and had a sense of his heritage, even if he was a little nervous when God called him.
Moses as we know would lead the Israelites out of Egypt and to the borders of the promised land.
The effects of those two mothers, Moses’s natural mother and adopted mother however went even further. Because of there love of Moses, because of their actions another mother was born some generations further on. A mother who said,
“And Mary said: “My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant.From now on all generations will call me blessed, for the Mighty One has done great things for me— holy is his name.
His mercy extends to those who fear him, from generation to generation.
He has performed mighty deeds with his arm;he has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts.
He has brought down rulers from their thrones but has lifted up the humble.
He has filled the hungry with good things but has sent the rich away empty.
He has helped his servant Israel, remembering to be merciful to Abraham and his descendants forever, even as he said to our fathers.”
Luke 1:46-55.
This of course is Mary the mother of Christ. Who although of lowly birth was considered by God to be faithful and true to Him. So much so that He chose her to become the mother of His one and Only Son. The Messiah, Jesus Christ.”
It was because of these three mothers that God’s salvation has come to the world. That we can at no cost to us receive eternal life.
Jesus would say of himself,
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”
John 3:16,17.
It is because of these three mothers and many more that over the centuries bore children that were in the line of Jesus that we today can know for certain that we will spend eternity with God.
The apostle Paul summed it up this way,
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.”
Ephesians 2:8,9.
Jesus is God reaching down to man because God knows man cannot be good enough to reach up to Him.
Please think about it.
“Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.
But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the river bank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to get it.
She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.
Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”
“Yes, go,” she answered. And the girl went and got the baby’s mother.
Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him.
When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.”
Exodus 2:1-10.
Today is Mother’s day in Canada. A time when we celebrate mother’s. When we thank them for all they’ve done for us.
When we look through history there is many mothers of note. However to my mind there are three mothers in history that led to the changing of history in a greater way than any other three women.
The above scripture I quoted is from Exodus and the saving of Moses from the river. The story in short goes this way. Pharaoh fearing that the Jews would rebel should an enemy come against his people ordered all the Jewish male children born to them to be killed.
One brave Hebrew mother ignored pharaoh and placed her child in a basket in the reeds where Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe.
Pharaoh’s daughter recognized that it was a Hebrew baby but decided to keep the child as her own. The sister of that child had been watching the events and asked if she should get a Hebrew woman to look after the child. Pharaoh’s daughter said yes.
The child’s mother was brought and was instructed to bring the child up until he was older where upon she made him her son.
The child, Moses, I’m sure would have the benefit of two things.
I’m sure his natural mother taught him about his heritage as a Jew. Giving him a sense of where his heritage lie.
While his adoptive mother gave him the benefit of all the learning of Egypt the most powerful and cultured nation on the earth at that time.
Thus when the time came for Moses to perform God’s work he was well educated and had a sense of his heritage, even if he was a little nervous when God called him.
Moses as we know would lead the Israelites out of Egypt and to the borders of the promised land.
The effects of those two mothers, Moses’s natural mother and adopted mother however went even further. Because of there love of Moses, because of their actions another mother was born some generations further on. A mother who said,
“And Mary said: “My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant.From now on all generations will call me blessed, for the Mighty One has done great things for me— holy is his name.
His mercy extends to those who fear him, from generation to generation.
He has performed mighty deeds with his arm;he has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts.
He has brought down rulers from their thrones but has lifted up the humble.
He has filled the hungry with good things but has sent the rich away empty.
He has helped his servant Israel, remembering to be merciful to Abraham and his descendants forever, even as he said to our fathers.”
Luke 1:46-55.
This of course is Mary the mother of Christ. Who although of lowly birth was considered by God to be faithful and true to Him. So much so that He chose her to become the mother of His one and Only Son. The Messiah, Jesus Christ.”
It was because of these three mothers that God’s salvation has come to the world. That we can at no cost to us receive eternal life.
Jesus would say of himself,
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”
John 3:16,17.
It is because of these three mothers and many more that over the centuries bore children that were in the line of Jesus that we today can know for certain that we will spend eternity with God.
The apostle Paul summed it up this way,
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.”
Ephesians 2:8,9.
Jesus is God reaching down to man because God knows man cannot be good enough to reach up to Him.
Please think about it.
Saturday, 9 May 2015
Human Beings
Human Beings
Some one has said,
“Our bodies are formed from the dust of the earth; our souls are of the essence of God. We alone can look at a physical world and see spiritual life and beauty.”
Martin Luther King jr. said,
“Then, finally, help us to realize that man was created to shine like stars and live on through all eternity.”
Albert Einstein said,
“Human beings vegetables or cosmic dust. We all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.”
Albert Einstein.
I believe the dance is that of life and the player of the tune is God.
I have never been able to buy into the theory that life ends when the body dies. I have always believed that the essence that makes us human, our Soul will live on throughout eternity. Every culture that has ever existed, and the majority of people that have ever lived all have believed in an afterlife. Have believed in a God.
The question to me has always been where will you spend eternity. Will it be with God or apart from God.
As a Christian I believe Jesus said two important things,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.”
John 3:16-18
“Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6
I believe God gives us a Choice. To accept Him or reject him the choice is yours. There is no in between.
C. S. Lewis said of Jesus,
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.
So basically Lewis is saying. If you accept Jesus as the Son of God, then you must accept His teachings. If so you in order to get to heaven you must accept Him into your life as Lord and Saviour.
Please think about it.
Some one has said,
“Our bodies are formed from the dust of the earth; our souls are of the essence of God. We alone can look at a physical world and see spiritual life and beauty.”
Martin Luther King jr. said,
“Then, finally, help us to realize that man was created to shine like stars and live on through all eternity.”
Albert Einstein said,
“Human beings vegetables or cosmic dust. We all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.”
Albert Einstein.
I believe the dance is that of life and the player of the tune is God.
I have never been able to buy into the theory that life ends when the body dies. I have always believed that the essence that makes us human, our Soul will live on throughout eternity. Every culture that has ever existed, and the majority of people that have ever lived all have believed in an afterlife. Have believed in a God.
The question to me has always been where will you spend eternity. Will it be with God or apart from God.
As a Christian I believe Jesus said two important things,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.”
John 3:16-18
“Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6
I believe God gives us a Choice. To accept Him or reject him the choice is yours. There is no in between.
C. S. Lewis said of Jesus,
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.
So basically Lewis is saying. If you accept Jesus as the Son of God, then you must accept His teachings. If so you in order to get to heaven you must accept Him into your life as Lord and Saviour.
Please think about it.
Friday, 8 May 2015
Where
Where
Where are the people?
Where?
Are they but shadows in the mall?
Are they?
Are they shadows in time,
Shadows wandering looking for the latest trinkets, bobbles or beads.
What is life?
What?
Is life but a wisp of smoke carried in the air?
A wisp in the eternal ether
Are people wisps of smoke?
What of man’s or woman’s! accomplishments?
What of them?
Is the sum total of all ones life simply a pile of shinny tin, brass, and wood?
Is that life?
Is life simply a cacophony of sounds travelling through endless time?
Is it?
Or
Is a life.
Yours and mine more?
Is it a divine opera?
An opera played out on a high mesa
A stage suspended between heaven and hell.
Are we as Shakespear said, simply actors?
I believe
Life is an opera played out before God.
On a high mesa between heaven and hell.
We are but actors in a play?
Actors awaiting the final curtain call sending us to eternity?
Are you ready for the final curtain call?
Are you?
What is the sum total of your life?
What?
What will “they” say about you as you pass on?
What will God say?
The Psalmist wrote
“Show me, O LORD, my life’s end and the number of my days;
let me know how fleeting is my life.
You have made my days a mere handbreadth;
the span of my years is as nothing before you.
Each man’s life is but a breath.
Psalms 39:4,5
Jesus said,
‘Here I am! I stand at the door and knock.
If anyone hears my voice and opens the door,
I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.’
Revelations 3:20
The Apostle Paul wrote,
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—
and this not from yourselves,
it is the gift of God—
Ephesians 2:8
The writer of Hebrews wrote,
“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for
and certain of what we do not see...
And without faith it is impossible to please God,
because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists
and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”
Hebrews 11:1,6
“Jesus answered,
“I am the way and the truth and the life.
No one comes to the Father
except through me.”
John 14:6
Where will you spend eternity?
Will you accept Jesus Christ into your heart and life today?
Will you pray.
Dear Heavenly Father,
I recognize that Jesus is your one and only Son.
That he came to earth to die for my sins.
I confess I am a sinner and that I fall short of what you want for my life.
Please forgive me of my sins and come into my life.
That I may spend eternity with you
In Jesus name I pray
Amen.
Thursday, 7 May 2015
A Modern Parable
A modern parable,
Every now and then I like to make both Christian and non-Christian think just what they’d do in a given circumstance. This is one of those occasions. It’s called the Eleven O Clock Parable.
The Eleven O Clock Parable
It’s eleven o clock. Inside the court house a judge is about to make his ruling. A community, a nation waits.
Will the new law be legal?
Outside the court house men and women with placards chant.
On one side of the street stand a group of gay men and women. All in favour of the new law.
On the other side of the street separated by a line of police stand radical evangelicals, denouncing the new law.
One man among them screams angrily . “HOMOSEXUALS ARE GOING TO HELL!!!”
Approached by the media he says it again, “homosexuals are going to Hell.”
From my office window I watch asking myself the question, ‘is this man an Christian?”
Wasn’t it Christ who told us not only to love God and love our neighbour but our enemy also?
Wasn’t it Christ who told us not to judge, lest we be judged likewise?
Wasn’t it the Apostle Paul who wrote,
“What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?
God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”
1 Corinthians 5:12,13
Wasn’t it Christ who said go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation?
Is this man showing love?
Is this man judging another?
Can this man be effective in reaching the whole world of which a percentage are homosexual?
Is this man even a Christian?
A question keeps rolling through my mind for which I know the answer, “Can we truly know what is in someone else’s head?
Do we really know why a person is like they are?”
For a moment I stare down at the crowd. All the time asking myself who is on the way to Hell this day, and how can I reach them for my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ?
Turning away from my window I kneel down and pray, “Lord guide me this day. Let me make the right decision on this law.”
A comment
Jesus never said a gay man or woman couldn’t get to heaven. He didn’t say a bigot couldn’t either.
The Bible makes it clear that only sin separates us from God. And God through the Holy Spirit convicts people of their sins. It is not our job.
Salvation is a very personal thing. It is between you and God no one can tell you if you are saved or not.
Salvation is not conditional on your life style, your race of ethnicity.
It is conditional on your accepting the free gift of salvation from God. On Accepting Christ as your saviour.
I like what one commentator on the Homosexual debate said, “the sin of a gay person is no worse than that of a heterosexual person.
The apostle Paul wrote,
“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,”
Romans 3:23.
That all means ALL, every man and woman on the face of the earth. Paul also wrote,
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.”
Ephesians 2:8,9.
God’s gift of salvation of life everlasting in heaven is free to all who will call on the name of Jesus and accept Him into their life.
The choice is yours be you strait or gay God does not play favorites.
Please consider accepting Christ into your life today.
Every now and then I like to make both Christian and non-Christian think just what they’d do in a given circumstance. This is one of those occasions. It’s called the Eleven O Clock Parable.
The Eleven O Clock Parable
It’s eleven o clock. Inside the court house a judge is about to make his ruling. A community, a nation waits.
Will the new law be legal?
Outside the court house men and women with placards chant.
On one side of the street stand a group of gay men and women. All in favour of the new law.
On the other side of the street separated by a line of police stand radical evangelicals, denouncing the new law.
One man among them screams angrily . “HOMOSEXUALS ARE GOING TO HELL!!!”
Approached by the media he says it again, “homosexuals are going to Hell.”
From my office window I watch asking myself the question, ‘is this man an Christian?”
Wasn’t it Christ who told us not only to love God and love our neighbour but our enemy also?
Wasn’t it Christ who told us not to judge, lest we be judged likewise?
Wasn’t it the Apostle Paul who wrote,
“What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?
God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”
1 Corinthians 5:12,13
Wasn’t it Christ who said go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation?
Is this man showing love?
Is this man judging another?
Can this man be effective in reaching the whole world of which a percentage are homosexual?
Is this man even a Christian?
A question keeps rolling through my mind for which I know the answer, “Can we truly know what is in someone else’s head?
Do we really know why a person is like they are?”
For a moment I stare down at the crowd. All the time asking myself who is on the way to Hell this day, and how can I reach them for my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ?
Turning away from my window I kneel down and pray, “Lord guide me this day. Let me make the right decision on this law.”
A comment
Jesus never said a gay man or woman couldn’t get to heaven. He didn’t say a bigot couldn’t either.
The Bible makes it clear that only sin separates us from God. And God through the Holy Spirit convicts people of their sins. It is not our job.
Salvation is a very personal thing. It is between you and God no one can tell you if you are saved or not.
Salvation is not conditional on your life style, your race of ethnicity.
It is conditional on your accepting the free gift of salvation from God. On Accepting Christ as your saviour.
I like what one commentator on the Homosexual debate said, “the sin of a gay person is no worse than that of a heterosexual person.
The apostle Paul wrote,
“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,”
Romans 3:23.
That all means ALL, every man and woman on the face of the earth. Paul also wrote,
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.”
Ephesians 2:8,9.
God’s gift of salvation of life everlasting in heaven is free to all who will call on the name of Jesus and accept Him into their life.
The choice is yours be you strait or gay God does not play favorites.
Please consider accepting Christ into your life today.
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
Ticket
“Ticket”
“Where am I?
What, am...
I doing here?”
“You are her.”
Says the Conductor.
“Your ticket please.”
“I bought no ticket.
I took no ride.
Where am I?”
“Your ride is over, You are here. All take the ride.
Your ticket’s paid for, Says the Conductor You are here.
Your ticket please, Please your ticket. Your ticket.
please.”
“I took no ride!
Where am I?
I demand to know!
I took no...
ride...
Am I...”
“You are here.
All take the ride.
The ticket paid for,
With My blood.
“I am here...
I have no ticket...
And you are...”
“Jesus.”
When you come to the end of the ride that is this life will have your ticket?
Are you certain that you will spend and eternity with God in heaven?
The following is what I believe is the way to heaven. I believe it is simple and open to anyone, and I mean anyone to follow.
Ultimately salvation is an act of faith, Hebrews stating,
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him”
Hebrews 11:6
Faith defined as,
“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”
Hebrews 11:1
Next it come down to who you think Jesus is and what his purpose on this earth was for, The gospel of John states,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”
John 3:16,17.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6
Paul writing to the Romans said,
“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.”
Romans 3:23,24.
Sinning is falling short of what God wants for you life. Sin separates us from God and everyone no matter who they are sins,
John noting,
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives.”
1 John 1:9,10.
Paul make it clear salvation is not something we can work for. Paul writing to the Ephesians stating,
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.”
Ephesians 2:8,9
Ultimately however like I said, salvation is an act of faith, and who you think Jesus. Either he is the Son of God, the Saviour of the world who died for you sins or he is not.
If you believe he is the Son of God and Saviour of the world then accepting him into your life is as simple as a prayer like this.
Will you accept Christ into your life today. If you are willing you can pray this prayer,
Dear Heavenly Father,
I believe in You. I believe that Jesus is your one and only Son. That he came to earth to die for my sins.
Please forgive my sins this day and come into my life. That I may spend eternity with you.
In Jesus name I pray amen.
Please think about where you stand with God.
Tuesday, 5 May 2015
service
Service
Sometime ago I came across this little story called the Rose Talked Back by Ben Zion Bokser.
The Rose Talked Back
The man sweeping the synagogue paused for a moment. He looked at the flowers lying about in disorder, ‘What waste!’ He said too himself. Those roses had adorned the pulpit at a wedding aan hour before. Now all was over and they were waiting to be discarded.
The attendant leaning on his sweeper was lost in thought when suddenly he heard a strange sound. One of the roses replied to him.
‘Do you call this a waste?” the flower protested, ‘What is life anyway, yours or mine, but a means of service? My mission was to create some fragrance and beauty, and when I have fulfilled it my life has not been wasted. And what greater privilege is there than to adorn a bride’s way to her beloved, what greater privilege than to help glorify the moment when aa bride and groom seal their faith in each other by entering the covenant of marriage?’
Our little flower paused for a moment too watch the man’s face, and then continued her discourse.
‘Roses are like people. They live in deeds, not in time. My glory was but for a brief hour, but you should have seen the joy in the bride’s eye. I like to believe that I had something to do with it, by creating a suitable setting for the moment of her supreme happiness. So don’t grieve for me. My life has been worthwhile.
Having spoken her little piece, the rose was once more silent. The attendant, startled from his reverie and a little wiser, pushed the sweeper again and continued with his work.
Ben Zion Bokser
Over the years I’ve met many men and women from all walks and strata of life. I have watched how rich and poor alike at the end of their life don’t think about the wealth they’ve acquired or the things they’ve accumulated. They, somehow, when one is on their death bed amount to nothing.
I like what the rose in Bokser’s story says,
“‘What is life anyway, yours or mine, but a means of service?”
It is when we realize that our lives are a means of service that life has meaning. We do live in our deeds.
Service is a way to show love. In serving you are giving of yourself to others.
Anne Frank a young Dutch girl hiding from the Nazi’s in occupied Holland wrote this in her diary,
“Give of yourself, give as much as you can? And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness! If everyone were to do this and not be as mean with a kindly word, then there would be much more justice and love in the world. Give and you shall receive, much more than you would have ever thought possible. Give, give again and again, don’t lose courage, keep it up and go on giving! No one has ever become poor from giving! Anne Frank
Francis of Assisi wrote a truth that both Christian and none Christian can believe he said,
“O Divine Master, grant that I may not seek to be consoled, as to console. To be understood, as to understand. To be loved, as to love. For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”
Francis of Assisi
Serving people with one’s whole heart is a means of showing love.
The Apostle Paul wrote of love,
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails....
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-8a,13.
Will you be remembered for your service and Love?
Think about it.
Sometime ago I came across this little story called the Rose Talked Back by Ben Zion Bokser.
The Rose Talked Back
The man sweeping the synagogue paused for a moment. He looked at the flowers lying about in disorder, ‘What waste!’ He said too himself. Those roses had adorned the pulpit at a wedding aan hour before. Now all was over and they were waiting to be discarded.
The attendant leaning on his sweeper was lost in thought when suddenly he heard a strange sound. One of the roses replied to him.
‘Do you call this a waste?” the flower protested, ‘What is life anyway, yours or mine, but a means of service? My mission was to create some fragrance and beauty, and when I have fulfilled it my life has not been wasted. And what greater privilege is there than to adorn a bride’s way to her beloved, what greater privilege than to help glorify the moment when aa bride and groom seal their faith in each other by entering the covenant of marriage?’
Our little flower paused for a moment too watch the man’s face, and then continued her discourse.
‘Roses are like people. They live in deeds, not in time. My glory was but for a brief hour, but you should have seen the joy in the bride’s eye. I like to believe that I had something to do with it, by creating a suitable setting for the moment of her supreme happiness. So don’t grieve for me. My life has been worthwhile.
Having spoken her little piece, the rose was once more silent. The attendant, startled from his reverie and a little wiser, pushed the sweeper again and continued with his work.
Ben Zion Bokser
Over the years I’ve met many men and women from all walks and strata of life. I have watched how rich and poor alike at the end of their life don’t think about the wealth they’ve acquired or the things they’ve accumulated. They, somehow, when one is on their death bed amount to nothing.
I like what the rose in Bokser’s story says,
“‘What is life anyway, yours or mine, but a means of service?”
It is when we realize that our lives are a means of service that life has meaning. We do live in our deeds.
Service is a way to show love. In serving you are giving of yourself to others.
Anne Frank a young Dutch girl hiding from the Nazi’s in occupied Holland wrote this in her diary,
“Give of yourself, give as much as you can? And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness! If everyone were to do this and not be as mean with a kindly word, then there would be much more justice and love in the world. Give and you shall receive, much more than you would have ever thought possible. Give, give again and again, don’t lose courage, keep it up and go on giving! No one has ever become poor from giving! Anne Frank
Francis of Assisi wrote a truth that both Christian and none Christian can believe he said,
“O Divine Master, grant that I may not seek to be consoled, as to console. To be understood, as to understand. To be loved, as to love. For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”
Francis of Assisi
Serving people with one’s whole heart is a means of showing love.
The Apostle Paul wrote of love,
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails....
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-8a,13.
Will you be remembered for your service and Love?
Think about it.
Monday, 4 May 2015
The Grass Withers
The Grass withers
“A voice says, “Cry out.” And I said, “What shall I cry?”
“All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field.
The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the LORD blows on them. Surely the people are grass.
The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
Isaiah 40:6-8.
The other day I was thinking about my mother she died young of cancer in her fifties in the early eighties.
My grandmother, her mother lived until her late nineties. Out living my mother by over twenty-five years.
When I think of them I realize their lives were but a mist in time. As are ours, at least with respect to this life.
Our lives however do not end here they are made as Martin Luther King jr. said “... man was created to shine like stars and live on through all eternity.”
The question is where will you spend that eternity?
We Christians believe that you have a choice in this life. You can either believe the words of Jesus or not.
Jesus said,
“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me”.
John 14:6
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son”.
John 3:16-18
If you chose to become a Christian and live by Christian principles of Love of God, Love for ones neighbour, and love for ones enemy, you have lost nothing and made your life richer in the process.
If Christianity is false then you’ve simply lived a good moral life.
C. S. Lewis said,
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
C. S. Lewis
The decision however is up to you. No one can force Christianity on you. You are not born Christian simply because your parents were Christian. You must make the decision voluntarily to accept Christ into you life.
The decision you make however, I believe will have eternal consequences.
Please think about it.
“A voice says, “Cry out.” And I said, “What shall I cry?”
“All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field.
The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the LORD blows on them. Surely the people are grass.
The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
Isaiah 40:6-8.
The other day I was thinking about my mother she died young of cancer in her fifties in the early eighties.
My grandmother, her mother lived until her late nineties. Out living my mother by over twenty-five years.
When I think of them I realize their lives were but a mist in time. As are ours, at least with respect to this life.
Our lives however do not end here they are made as Martin Luther King jr. said “... man was created to shine like stars and live on through all eternity.”
The question is where will you spend that eternity?
We Christians believe that you have a choice in this life. You can either believe the words of Jesus or not.
Jesus said,
“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me”.
John 14:6
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son”.
John 3:16-18
If you chose to become a Christian and live by Christian principles of Love of God, Love for ones neighbour, and love for ones enemy, you have lost nothing and made your life richer in the process.
If Christianity is false then you’ve simply lived a good moral life.
C. S. Lewis said,
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
C. S. Lewis
The decision however is up to you. No one can force Christianity on you. You are not born Christian simply because your parents were Christian. You must make the decision voluntarily to accept Christ into you life.
The decision you make however, I believe will have eternal consequences.
Please think about it.
Sunday, 3 May 2015
Civilized?
Civilized?
“Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all men are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all men and all countries—not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of mankind as civilized.”
Albert Einstein.
Einstein was right. We cannot truly call ourselves civilized while we let one man woman or child struggle to get enough food to eat, good housing, clothing, and medical attention.
We cannot call ourselves civilized when men, women, children are dying violent deaths at the hands of others on our city streets.
We cannot consider ourselves civilized when a person is considered suspicious simply because of the colour of his or her skin.
I know of no philosophy in the world that can truly change it. Jesus however can.
St. Augustine wrote,
“I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful; but I never read in either of them: "Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden."
St Augustine.
Jesus can change the world.
If the teachings of Jesus to love God, ones neighbour, and one’s enemy are implemented within our society lives can be changed.
The cry of Jesus to the world today is,
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Matthew 11:28-30.
Jesus can change lives and those lives can change the world.
Would you consider giving your life to Christ today?
Please think about it.
“Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all men are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all men and all countries—not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of mankind as civilized.”
Albert Einstein.
Einstein was right. We cannot truly call ourselves civilized while we let one man woman or child struggle to get enough food to eat, good housing, clothing, and medical attention.
We cannot call ourselves civilized when men, women, children are dying violent deaths at the hands of others on our city streets.
We cannot consider ourselves civilized when a person is considered suspicious simply because of the colour of his or her skin.
I know of no philosophy in the world that can truly change it. Jesus however can.
St. Augustine wrote,
“I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful; but I never read in either of them: "Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden."
St Augustine.
Jesus can change the world.
If the teachings of Jesus to love God, ones neighbour, and one’s enemy are implemented within our society lives can be changed.
The cry of Jesus to the world today is,
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Matthew 11:28-30.
Jesus can change lives and those lives can change the world.
Would you consider giving your life to Christ today?
Please think about it.
Saturday, 2 May 2015
Not all are Christians
Not all are Christians
“Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’
Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
Matthew 7:22,23
Here’s an admission or warning if you will from a Christian of over forty years now. The admission is this. Not all who call themselves Christians are Christians.
Some may have been Christians to start out, but have turned away from correct Christian teaching.
Others are simply money grabbers. Charlatans who see using the bible as an easy way to get rich.
Still others are either misguided or like the powerful feeling they get when they stand in front of a pulpit, be it in a church on in the media.
These men I admit have hurt the Christian cause over the centuries. These men are still hurting the Christian cause today.
Unfortunately Christianity is filled with human beings who have frailties. We are no different from other groups or institutions.
Here in Canada there is a scandal about people in the Senate misusing their position and government money.
In the United States policemen have been charged in attacks on some unarmed black youths.
While these men committed crimes it doesn’t mean all police or all Senators are criminals.
Would we call all gay men or all heterosexual men criminals if one was caught committing a crime. Certainly not.
Likewise it’s the same for those who call themselves Christian. I can list many things that have been done in the name of Christ that is wrong. It doesn’t mean all of us are bigots or criminals.
This for me is what a true Christian is.
A true Christian believes Jesus when he says,
...“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6
A True Christian believes the words of the Apostle Paul who tells us salvation if a gift received by faith he states,
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.”
Ephesians 2:8,9
A true Christian believes and puts into practice what Jesus said as recorded by Matthew,
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged.
For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
Matthew 7:1,2
A true Christian will obey the words of Jesus who when asked,
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Matthew 22:37-40
Jesus also saying,
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbour and hate your enemy.’
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?"
Matthew 5:43-46
A true Christian will show love to all people. They will know what Christian Love is as defined by the apostle Paul and practice it. Paul writing,
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails....
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-8a,13.
A true Christian will take the advice of Francis of Assisi who said,
“Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.”
Francis of Assisi.
Finally a true Christian will respect you and your beliefs while at the same time presenting their beliefs to you for your consideration.
We Christians believe we have the most important message in the history of mankind. One that has eternal consequences.
That is why a true Christian will respectfully present their beliefs to you.
That message being in the words of Jesus,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.”
John 3:16-18
Please take time to consider what I have said.
“Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’
Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
Matthew 7:22,23
Here’s an admission or warning if you will from a Christian of over forty years now. The admission is this. Not all who call themselves Christians are Christians.
Some may have been Christians to start out, but have turned away from correct Christian teaching.
Others are simply money grabbers. Charlatans who see using the bible as an easy way to get rich.
Still others are either misguided or like the powerful feeling they get when they stand in front of a pulpit, be it in a church on in the media.
These men I admit have hurt the Christian cause over the centuries. These men are still hurting the Christian cause today.
Unfortunately Christianity is filled with human beings who have frailties. We are no different from other groups or institutions.
Here in Canada there is a scandal about people in the Senate misusing their position and government money.
In the United States policemen have been charged in attacks on some unarmed black youths.
While these men committed crimes it doesn’t mean all police or all Senators are criminals.
Would we call all gay men or all heterosexual men criminals if one was caught committing a crime. Certainly not.
Likewise it’s the same for those who call themselves Christian. I can list many things that have been done in the name of Christ that is wrong. It doesn’t mean all of us are bigots or criminals.
This for me is what a true Christian is.
A true Christian believes Jesus when he says,
...“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6
A True Christian believes the words of the Apostle Paul who tells us salvation if a gift received by faith he states,
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.”
Ephesians 2:8,9
A true Christian believes and puts into practice what Jesus said as recorded by Matthew,
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged.
For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
Matthew 7:1,2
A true Christian will obey the words of Jesus who when asked,
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Matthew 22:37-40
Jesus also saying,
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbour and hate your enemy.’
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?"
Matthew 5:43-46
A true Christian will show love to all people. They will know what Christian Love is as defined by the apostle Paul and practice it. Paul writing,
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails....
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-8a,13.
A true Christian will take the advice of Francis of Assisi who said,
“Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.”
Francis of Assisi.
Finally a true Christian will respect you and your beliefs while at the same time presenting their beliefs to you for your consideration.
We Christians believe we have the most important message in the history of mankind. One that has eternal consequences.
That is why a true Christian will respectfully present their beliefs to you.
That message being in the words of Jesus,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.”
John 3:16-18
Please take time to consider what I have said.
Friday, 1 May 2015
About God
About God
“think about that. How is it possible that over ninety percent of all human beings who have ever lived usually in far more painful circumstances than we could believe in God?
The objective evidence, just looking at the balance of pleasure and suffering in the world, would not seem to justify believing in an absolutely good God. Yet this has been almost universally believed.”
Peter John Kreeft ph.d
God is real. There is life beyond the grave. I believe it as do billions of people around the world. Irrespective of what Atheist may say God exists.
C. S. Lewis wrote,
“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain.
The Psalmist wrote,
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.”
Psalm 19:1.
From the dawn of time man it seems has believed in an afterlife. Every culture in every part of the world believes this. I can’t believe this I can’t believe this is a coincidence. I believe it is built into man’s very being.
Man may deny it but it doesn’t make it any less real.
As I look at the world around me I see the perfect harmony of nature. I look up into the heavens and see wondrous sights. The stars, the galaxies the planets all in harmony with one another.
Mathematics shows us the harmony of our universe from the smallest part of an atom to the largest of galaxies. I cannot believe that all developed by chance.
To me it is the hand of a creator God.
I know I will never change the mind of an ardent Atheist. Someone who blinds him or herself to the perfection of the universe and refuses to at least look and examine the facts.
And I don’t believe that is my job as a Christian.
My job as a Christian as I see it is, to simply say there is a God who loves you. The apostle John recording Jesus as saying,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.”
John 3:16-18.
My Job is to ask them to at least think about it.
“think about that. How is it possible that over ninety percent of all human beings who have ever lived usually in far more painful circumstances than we could believe in God?
The objective evidence, just looking at the balance of pleasure and suffering in the world, would not seem to justify believing in an absolutely good God. Yet this has been almost universally believed.”
Peter John Kreeft ph.d
God is real. There is life beyond the grave. I believe it as do billions of people around the world. Irrespective of what Atheist may say God exists.
C. S. Lewis wrote,
“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain.
The Psalmist wrote,
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.”
Psalm 19:1.
From the dawn of time man it seems has believed in an afterlife. Every culture in every part of the world believes this. I can’t believe this I can’t believe this is a coincidence. I believe it is built into man’s very being.
Man may deny it but it doesn’t make it any less real.
As I look at the world around me I see the perfect harmony of nature. I look up into the heavens and see wondrous sights. The stars, the galaxies the planets all in harmony with one another.
Mathematics shows us the harmony of our universe from the smallest part of an atom to the largest of galaxies. I cannot believe that all developed by chance.
To me it is the hand of a creator God.
I know I will never change the mind of an ardent Atheist. Someone who blinds him or herself to the perfection of the universe and refuses to at least look and examine the facts.
And I don’t believe that is my job as a Christian.
My job as a Christian as I see it is, to simply say there is a God who loves you. The apostle John recording Jesus as saying,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.”
John 3:16-18.
My Job is to ask them to at least think about it.
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