Posts from October 2015

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When We Don’t Feel Like Obeying God

by PH

What is the relationship between the Christian and keeping the commandments of the Bible? For example, are we required to belong to a church? Are we required to tithe? Are we required to marry only other Christians? Are we required to stay pure sexually until marriage? Or since we are free in Christ, we shouldn’t […]

Happiness Now; Not Later

by PH

There is a difference between being happy in obeying Christ versus obeying Christ so that we will be happy later. For the former, our obeying Christ itself gives us delight. The latter, we obey Christ hoping that one day it will lead to our happiness. Which is biblical? Both. But which reflects our experience more […]

Surviving Sodom

by PH

You and I are living in Sodom where homosexuality and demon possessions are rampant. If you have children, you are raising them in Sodom. Another mass shooting and another debate over gun control…. That is a cop out. It doesn’t address the deeper issue. It is not mental illness. Mentally ill people do not go […]

Communion or…

by LD

John 18:1-2- When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the Kidron Valley, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered. 2 Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples. One of the (many) things that I had […]