Reflections
Greetings and blessings to all of you. Have you noticed how certain things do not change over time? For example, our Christian values are still being attacked. Nothing new under the sun. Satan has always come against everything that God loves. He came to rob, kill and destroy. When you recall what happened in Elijah days; he experienced a major victory against those that came against the Almighty in (I Kings18). Armed with only his unflinching faith in the Lord he faced down 850 priests of the local false deities. God moved and destroyed the idolaters bringing glory to Himself throughout Israe...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. Are we living and walking in the Spirit? Whenever we behave according to the old man or live in the flesh or the self, we in a practical way are out of fellowship with Christ. This means that when we are in the flesh, we are in the realm of the fallen human nature, which has been fully usurped by Satan who is the god of this world right now. (2 Cor. 4:4) (John 12:31) (Eph 2:2) There is a Kingdom of Satan and a Kingdom of Christ. If a genuine Christian lives in the flesh instead of in the Spirit he is not in fellowship with Christ and His Kingdom but in th...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. The institution called the church and/or the Body of Christ that God created has said in Heb. 10:25 “let us not neglect our meeting together as some people do, but encourage one another.” is undergoing major changes. One change is the meeting together as Christ expected…. to be as “One”. The Body of Christ is weakened if we fail to meet together as commanded by the Lord. Before He left to be with the Father, He prayed in John 17:21 “I pray that they will all be one just as you and I are one.” A pixelated church? ...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. Time is speeding by. Big changes are happening in our nation. The old leadership is out the new one is in for the next four years. Look around we are living in incredible times. Isn’t it a privilege and a challenge to be living as a true Christian in such a time as we are experiencing? We have lived through terrifying moments? There was 911 in 2001when over 3000 people died. Then we had numerous hurricanes and floods when more lives were lost. Currently the California inferno is yet to end…the state has not had rain for a while. Homes and liv...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. It has been said that there are Saints and there are those that ain’t. They are called worldly people. The goal of the saints (an image bearer of God) is to live out Romans 12:2 “and do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. The goal of the worldly people is to move forward rather than upward, to live horizontally rather than vertically. They seek after outward prosperity rather than holiness. They burst with selfish desires ra...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. It is important that we begin reading the Word of God every day and living in the power of the Holy Spirit. Why? Because the Word is life; it is the living water that we need to quench our thirst in a world that is living like there is no God. In our time dispensation we would consider our autonomy (the self-life), our career, entertainment, money, and material items as our gold, silver or stone as our idols. In the O.T. people worshipped those as their idols; anything but the God of the Bible. In the book of Acts 17:22-30 Paul explained to them who the r...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. A New Year is here. You and I have made accomplishments. Maybe a promotion, a new career, maybe a proposal, retired, or you have begun to scratch off items on your bucket list. These are things that we wanted to do in order to feel a sense of achievement. Nothing wrong with that. However, when you read about Paul’s accomplishments in Phil. Chap. 3 you will find that he was esteemed above all the Jews. His Jewish credentials were impeccable. But he said in Phil. 3:7, “I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless ...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. A New Year is here. It means new opportunities. God has given us another opportunity to bear testimony on our relationship to Him to others before we pass. This could be the time when we will share the Gospel or Good News to others. We can impact or influence not just each other in the church life but we can impact communities, cities, countries, the whole world. All we have to do is share our faith. I know most of us are reluctant to integrate our faith in day- to -day conversations because we focus on how speaking with others will affect us. For example...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. Christmas will be celebrated in the US on December 25th. Are we going to shop until we drop? Are we going to decorate our homes and yard with many lights? Are we going to eat like we are never going to have food again? Or are we going to meditate on the true meaning of Christmas? Zacharias announced the birth of Jesus into a spiritually dark world as was prophesized in Gen. 3:14. In Romans 1:21 “For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks but they became futile in their speculations and their foolish hearts were darke...
(Read More)Greetings and blessings to all of you. We are celebrating the Birth of Christ. I know people argue about the date and Christmas trees and Jesus skin color….but all that is smoke screens or diversions to keep us from focusing on why did Jesus come to earth. People love complicated matters because of their need to appear intellectual…but it is very simple. God has provided a remedy so that men do not need to suffer everlasting punishment for their sins. He sent His Son Jesus Christ, the second person of the Trinity, into the world to provide a way to escape for you and I. Luke 19:1...
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