The Book of Eli starring Denzel Washington has been incredibly impactful in my life recently.  I daresay it was the best movie I have ever seen -  beautiful, thematic cinematography, inquisitive music, excellent fight scenes, superb acting, surprise endings, rich metaphoric under and overtones, and an incredibly accurate depiction of the Christian ( Read more... )

"And blessed is the one who is not offended by me." - Jesus (Luke 7:23)

It is not suprising to me that as our culture veers further from Jesus, it becomes ever more sensitive to being offended.  It makes perfect sense when we understand the truths of the Bible concerning sin.  Romans 1:32 states that "Though they know God’s decree that those who ( Read more... )

As of late, I have noticed the mega-theme of humanity known as behavior modification.  What I mean by this term is an attempt to change one's life through changing external actions alone.  The problem with this methodology of life is that, very often, it's plain deceitful, and the end result is never pleasurable.  Here is an example of what I am ( Read more... )

...so glorify Christ.

Summer is coming, which means the spaghetti straps and short shorts will be coming out.  As a brother in Christ, I want to make an appeal to my sisters, and an admonition to my brothers.

1) Women

"I appeal to you therefore, [sisters], by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable ( Read more... )

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Believers in Christ need a mindset of urgency!  Do we realize how short our lives our?  Do we realize that we aren't promised another day? 
Have we come to grips with the realities of heaven and hell?  We haven't a minute to waste.  This world is under condemnation and we have the redeemer!

Are you discipling someone (it was Jesus' last command to ( Read more... )

But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.   -1 Corinthians 1:27-29

Therefore I tell you, her sins, ( Read more... )

God has become a big fluffy teddy-bear for the church - impotent, castrated, and simple.  He is unable to really aid in our life problems, except to maybe cling to and cry into.  We can talk to him, but we don't really expect any advice, so we look into ourselves for the answers.  He has no requests, nor does he have any expectations (except that ( Read more... )

The words used to describe sin are a stark contrast to what our flesh and the ever-growing humanistic movement of the west.  It is a growing conviction of mine that the North American church has lost her lofty ideas of God and is progressively adopting a mentality of self-reliance and arrogance.  Somewhere we replaced the supernatural regenerative ( Read more... )

The Suburban Gospel of America is becoming frightening.   Humanism and religious pluralism is tearing apart Christianity.

The problem arises (as always) with sin.  The natural man does not like to hear that he is sinful.  The natural man also doesn't like to be disliked or hated.  So one of the natural tendencies of man when telling the gospel to ( Read more... )