‘Christian’ Archives
The Lost Soul: Life Experience Limited by Refusing to Receive Holy Spirit Instructions
For the Christian, instructions for life, death, and the hereafter come in three forms: experience, scriptural truths, and the inner whisper of the Holy Spirit. This article will focus upon life limitations due to a personal refusal to receive instructions from the Holy Spirit. The mere fact of being alive brings about experience. This training [...]
Honoring Another: The Character of the Holy Spirit
The primary character of the Holy Spirit is that of one who honors someone other than himself, one who magnifies not his own words but those of another. Jesus came to lift up the name of God the Father. The Holy Spirit came to lift up the name of Jesus the Son. It is written in this manner: "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will [...]
Christian Principles: Come Out From Among Them, and Away With The Unclean Things.
What means this command: “ Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,” (2 Corinthians 6:17)? Before we begin, understand that I am chief among sinners. Were it not for the grace of God my sins would surpass that of most every man alive. I love people, but I [...]
Fourteen Verses That Describe A Nation Under The Abandonment of God
Concerning the Christian state of America, perhaps we prefer to believe the best. Perhaps we favor ignoring the life patterns of the nation. It is all right to bury our heads beneath the sand, to abide those things that are false, to proceed without choosing sides. After all, God is really only concerned with love. Isn’t he? Though I usually [...]
Christian Principles: Promotion to Service in the Middle of a Prison
Concerning the principle of Christian service, we seen to overlook the concept of being promoted right smack into the middle of a prison. Oh, we all desire the glory position that promotes fame. We long for the Billy Graham type spotlight, or the front-end showpiece to the 700 Club. Now before you get out of round over these words, know that this [...]
Christian Principles: So You Want To Be Used By God
Every Christian wants to be used by God. This is a good thing, though sometimes distorted in our approach. If not careful, the desire to be used by God stems forth from our need to redeem ourselves, or to be recognized as a great Christian leader, or to be about busy work. Scripture is riddled with “small” players, the single scene bit shots, [...]
Bible Confidence: Building Faith One Wrong Door At A Time
For me, Bible confidence began with a get out of jail free mentality. Owing to wrong deeds of my own choice, trouble and woe had come upon me. I knew Jesus as a man in the Bible that was called God, as a man in the Bible in whom my mother and father had believed and trusted. I knew him as a man in what I counted as the greatest fiction book ever [...]
Secret to Restored Article Life: Using Links to Draw New Readers
There is no secret to restoring article life. Drawing new readers to old content is as simple as link control and author resource adjustment. We live in a fast paced world. Everyone looks for a quick fix. Even devoted readers operate on a limited timetable and a selective content method. Without special prompting and help, few new readers will [...]
The Death of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, And a Young Man
Have you ever wondered why the death of Jesus brought Mary Magdalene face to face with a young man? It begins in the book of Mark when the Sabbath was past, early in the morning at sunrise on the first day of the week, on what we call Easter Sunday. Mary Magdalene and another Mary, the mother of James, and Salome, and perhaps even other women [...]
Ten Things That Will Matter in Heaven
List ten things that will matter in heaven. At first thought, that seems a loaded directive that should be dismissed as immaterial. After all, just getting through one of Heaven’s twelve gates is what matters. We seek to avoid the eternal fire and the ultimate fate of Satan. We cling to the promise of coming before God the Father. We hunger [...]
