Romans 7:15-20 New International Version (NIV) 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I […]
Category: Choice
Lasting Change
You have chosen to change, you have changed your thinking, and you realize that change takes time, but now you need it too last. So how is that done? We need to: Focus on the Lord. Learn what Christ taught and start practicing it. Learn what God’s purpose is for you. Realize that we all […]
Choose Change
Most of us are not perfect and need to change. We think we are smarter, wiser, nicer, kinder, more patient, more loving, friendlier than we really are. We claim that we want to be more like Christ, but we are unwilling to acknowledge that we are not even close. God gave each of us free […]
Cheating
I like so many others want something from God, but when God asks us for something we balk. There are a number of reasons why we decide that we cannot do what God has asked, but none of them are worth anything. This brings me to cheating. Why do we cheat? We act like know […]
Obesity
Obesity is rampant in our country. The question is why? Is it due to lack of discipline? Is it due to sedentary lifestyle? Is it due to eating the wrong foods? Is it due to the desires of the flesh? The answer is all of the above plus more. I bet you are going great, […]
How you live matters
I have heard people say that what they do behind closed doors is their business. That is partially true. No one will know what you are doing, but God will. Jesus told many parables and one of them was about the talents. Matthew 25:14-30 English Standard Version (ESV) The Parable of the Talents 14 “For it […]
It’s all God’s Fault
Our current society is taught that it is never their fault. We blame companies for our bad decisions such as a child kills himself with the parent gun. It is not the parents fault, but the fault of the company that manufactured the gun. A person gets drunk and then gets behind the wheel and […]
Shades of Grey
Things use to be so simple. There were boundaries, people knew right from wrong, children listened to their parents, pretty much the world was black or white and no not the races and there was no shades of grey. Do not get me wrong, there was the occasional person who did not fit into this […]
Free Will
I have mentioned this before, God gave us Free Will. Just look in Genesis. God told Adam that we are not to eat of the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God did not say you cannot because I will not allow it, but that we must not because it […]
Choices
This past Sunday, 10Sep2017, I had a lesson for the children that was about choices or more specifically, “How to Make Good Choices”. Everyday as I have mentioned in the past, we are presented with choices to make. These choices usually fall into one of two categories, do or do not do, yes or no, […]