UN-learn to RE-learn
“If you ask a kid, ‘Can you draw?’ They answer, ‘Yeah, of course. Where are the pens?’ But if you ask an adult, they often say ‘Oh, no. I can’t draw.’ or, ‘I can only draw stick men.’ Through this infrastructure that we call the school system, or just the social system, we’ve trained creativity…
Read MorePracticing Peace
If you are like me, you love having peace of mind. However, sometimes in life, keeping your peace is difficult because the brain can easily gravitate towards negative thinking. We need to remember that our spiritual mind (which resides in our soul) is separate from our physical brain. As a result, we can actually keep and…
Read MoreFear Not!
The feelings of fear can effect everyone in one way or another. Whether it’s someone being afraid of flying, a nervousness before an import day at work, or a mother that can’t sleep until her child comes home. Fear is always around us. Though fear is a natural feeling, for many it has become crippling…
Read MoreDisciples or Pharisees?
Christians tend to get a bum rap from outsiders. We hear it on all fronts that we are backwards, fanatical, deceived, hypocritical, bigoted or ignorant, or a number of other unsavory descriptions. Let me illustrate this point with a question: What do Mormons, atheists, liberal activists, and Muslims all have in common? Answer: They all…
Read MoreThe Only Way or Just a Way Among Many?
Today on social media and in various comparative religion classes many try to claim that Jesus was either a legend borrowed from pagan myth or just one “god” among many. However, Jesus was a monotheistic Jew that loved and supported the Law of Moses (Matthew 5:17). Likewise, Jesus was a real person in history and not…
Read MoreMiracle Worker or Good Teacher?
There have been many good teachers that have come and gone throughout human history. However, only one had just as many miraculous events in their life as they had inspirational teachings; Jesus Christ. Now in a time of hyper-skepticism and antagonistic atheism some modern doubters are trying to call into question the life of Jesus. Seeing…
Read MoreGod in the Flesh, or Just a Good Man?
C.S. Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity, “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…
Read MoreSavior raised from the dead, or just a buried man?
How we answer this question changes everything. If Jesus was just a man that lived and died then Christianity is false. 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.” Therefore, let us take some proper time today to evaluate the evidence…
Read MoreJohn the Baptist or Jesus?
Without putting down people who choose to do things for Lent (fasting, not eating meat, etc.), which is getting more and more popular in Protestant churches (borrowed from Catholicism), I really just want to challenge all Christians with this thought, “Are you more like John the Baptist or Jesus?” In other words, read this description from…
Read MoreGod’s Heart for You, Part 2
I would like to start today’s series ending message with a powerful poem from Annie Johnson, 1866-1932. Her mother died at 23 years old while giving birth to her sister when Annie was only 3. Soon afterward while she was still in grade school her dad gave her, along with her sister, to be adopted by…
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