truth, and to seek to know Him far more fervently. How can one truly abide in God unless they know the horrors He saves us from? So comes the need to delve into introspection, that I may know and love my God with greater depth, for He only brings salvation, purpose and truth. Coming to face with the desert of my sinful mind drove me to see how desperately I must search after and know God in order to live with purpose, as He…
Paul’s visions could have caused him to become proud, but God allowed him to have this thorn to keep him humble. There have been many ideas given about what Paul’s thorn was, but we don’t really know what it was. This allows us to apply this verse to whatever suffering we may be going through. Regardless of the fact that we cannot know for sure what Paul was really facing, let’s look at what some scholars have thought it might be. The word thorn can also be translated as stake. One of the…
On November 2nd I attended a presentation given by David Eubank, a former U.S Army Special Forces and Ranger Officer, and an alumnus of Texas A&M University. Currently, he is the director for the Free Burma Rangers (FBR), an organization that offers humanitarian aid to those in the Burma, Kurdistan, and Sudan war zone. While FBR has no religious or racial denomination, David himself is a Christian and believes that his being a follower of Jesus is what has led him to organizing FBR. David…
Creationists are not exactly open to other theories of human existence. “The Great Debate,” as many have called it, has been a vivid and intense argument going on for the past century. In the last two hundred years Creation has been the historic and inherent default throughout most of all cultures and religion. Now people are coming together to question and argue how the world and human life originated. The Evolution theory supersedes the Creationism theory because you can’t hear, see, touch,…
Have you found that life can be a struggle? Mine rarely drifts along with the perfection of my dreams or to the sweet songs we hear on the radio. The struggle is deeper than we normally think. The usual view of our struggle has been that we are fighting against flesh and blood, against other people. But the Apostle Paul says the battle is not against flesh and blood; it is much deeper than that. This fight is between the Kingdom of God and Satan and people are the combat zone. The battle is…
In the Bible, there are many places that tell us how we should talk, and what to say, and many other things about speech. For example. Matthew 12:34 "You snakes—how can you say good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of." Here, its telling us that whatever comes out of our mouths, comes from our hearts, so if your heart is hard towards someone, you would probably speak harshly towards them. Another verse that talks about the mouth is in Matthew 15: 11 "It is…
It portrays the gospel to the Jews and Gentiles from condemnation to justification to sanctification to sanctification to glorification to glorification. God’s plan was for salvation and for the exhortation of the believers. God’s plan for our salvation has three parts in this order: Justification, Sanctification, and Glorification. Justification is God’s unconditional love for us through Jesus Christ’s death on the cross, Sanctification is the reciprocation of…
Dr. David Tyler discuss on “Sigmund Freud, Carl Rogers’s vs. Biblical Counseling in reference to Mental illness, Man’s Heart, Sinful nature of human, and the Pre Fall Nature of Man,” numerous times in his first audio, I am going to summarize what I learn form his audio tape 1. I will focus on the Doctrine of Man and his Sinful Nature. Man's Nature Man was created in the image of God. Adam sinned and therefore experienced not only physical death but also spiritual death, which is the…
Job responds by affirming that his suffering was causing his rash desire to die, Eliphaz’s response has disappointed him, and by asking for forgiveness if he sinned (6:1-7:21). Job referees to God as a watcher over man. His feeling was that God was an enemy of his. He sensed that God was watching him squirm in his misery. God does watch over us, but with. But God does it with love, with compassion and for our wellbeing. Chapter 8 starts Bildad the Shuhite’s reply. Bildad begins by…
pertaining to the Gospel message, I think of Acts 2:21 (“And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (KJV)), Romans 1:16 (“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” (KJV)), and Romans 3:23 (“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” (KJV)). One thing that I am especially thankful for is that each and…